Man fulfils promise to daughter as he bags PhD at 65

A medical doctor has used the micro-blogging social media platform, Twiiter to praise her father as he got his Ph.D., fulfilling the promise he made to her.

Dr. Maria Uloko, who became a medical doctor at 23, said her father promised her then that he will go back to school and earn his doctorate so that she wouldn't be the only "doctor" in the family, Linda Ikeji said.

He kept his words and earned his PhD in December. At his oral defense, he said he went back to school to fulfill his promise to his daughter.

Dr Maria's tweets expressing pride in her father has got over 325K likes.