Calendar Prodigy, Siju Olawepo Set To Receive IT Scholarship

The Director of the Nigerian Broadcasting Association (NBA), others will on Thursday make a scholarship presentation to nine year old calendar prodigy Siju Olawepo, a primary five pupil of Carol School, Lagos.

Ekohotblog understands this is coming after Siju Olawepo was noticed to be able to provide corresponding day to any date he is given almost faster than an internet search engine.

According to Daily Trust, this innate ability was first noticed by one of his teachers who observed that he was always demanding for plain sheets to design calendars. Later he was seen designing calendars for the future without the aid of any existing one.

Siju Olawepo , like a soothsayer, once given a date, can tell the corresponding day of the week according to reports.

When asked how he came about knowing days with their corresponding dates, his response was, “I just know it.

My instinct tells me dates with the corresponding days. It comes naturally to me, I cannot explain how.” Daily Trust gathered from Siju’s computer teacher, Mr. David Ugiomoh, that what the Siju Olawepo enjoys doing most is designing calendars.

“He was always coming to my office to ask for plain sheets for designing calendars. I and others in the school initially thought he was copying from an existing calendar until the day he came to my office to design a calendar for year 2023. When I checked the dates on my phone, I saw that they were all correct,”.

“Then I started asking him days for different dates and he was answering correctly. I also asked him for the day to my birthday, which he provided seamlessly.   I was baffled and discovered he was a genius,” he explained.