In recent times, you must have seen the anger, weariness flowing into frustrated smiles, laughter and acceptance in the end because, what can the puns do In this time? Nothing except to leave everything in the hands of God.
Now for you out there, if you ever apply into a Nigerian public university and out of the millions of people who passed jamb whether by hook or by crook, luck, threats, relations or by favor you get picked after 5 years of being at home, just kneel down and thank your God. In fact, if you have money, eat your best and even if you don’t have, just ask your parents, trust me, your wish will be granted- their "pikin" is now an undergraduate. It is not an easy something.
After the expected telling of friends and enemies with the biggest of smile on your face, have it in mind that everything in a Nigerian public school is placed there to show you pepper- serious Yoruba, Ghana, Sokoto and Port-Harcourt species put together when going for registration. Let us just call it initiation because you will need a bucket of water and plenty energy drink after the sun has dealt with you like a panel beater and you have pushed your ancestors for hours.
After your initiation into hardship, try not to kill yourself even when the university and its element has connived with your village people to hunt you for a crime you just cannot remember committing. You never can tell; just maybe you once urinated in the evil forest or you referred to a professor emeritus as a doctor.
Every strike rumor has an element of truth in it so my brothers and sisters in the lord, REST even if you spend two years in same level. Breathe, sleep when you can and pack your bags with all the time in the world when the Ogas at the top tell you to come back.
Never in your thinking, calculating, meditating or writing calculate the amount of years you will spend in school cause trust me, even ASUU, federal government and your village people do not know. You will give yourself hypertension, high blood pressure, anxiety and a host of other nonsense if you dare it.
Try to ensure that your certificate is at least useful by grabbing all the necessary skills that comes your way as an undergraduate whether it is related to your course or not before you eventually graduate so that you will not join that senior man on your street and swear for the government and our beloved country. You never can tell when putting paper in somebody’s phone can land you a job as a banker even if you read fishery.
May the lord bless and prosper our lecturers so that we can at least smile to our hostels after every class.
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