A primary six pupil of Role Model School, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos, has emerged one of the youngest pupils to obtain the Microsoft Certified Professional certificate. A nine-year-old pupil of Role Model School, Oregun,Ikeja, Lagos, Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo, has emerged the youngest Nigerian Microsoft certified professional. He came tops among 21 pupils who sat for the professional examination in Lagos. He is now a Microsoft office specialist in office word2010. Jomiloju scored 769 out of 1,000 in the examinationheld in August. In his examination score report, the slim-built boy performed well in Sharing and Maintaining Documents,Formatting Content, Applying Page Layout, and Reusable Content, among other subjects.By the feat, Jomiloju has joined the league of young Microsoft certified professionals, including Nigeria's 10-year-old Anjolaoluwa Seyi-Ojo; an eight-year-old Indian, Lavishnashree, and two Pakistanis, named Arfa and Thobani. Microsoft Certified Professional is a certification programme provided by Microsoft Corporation. The certification is tailored towards building skills onMicrosoft business solutions, focusing on client-endoperating systems such as windows XP, Vista, Windows7among others.Jomiloju, whose certificate was signed by the ChiefExecutive Officer, Microsoft Corporation, StevenBallmer, says he did not achieve this feat easily, but through persistence and hard work. He says, "It was not all that easy, because I had attempted the examination last year, I did not make it then. But I remained focused and I put in a lot of hardwork."At home and in the school, I am always on the computer. After school hours, if am not doing anything,I will go to my Information Communication Technology teacher, to learn more.
