An average Nigerian wants to go school and become a graduate but before you can become a graduate, you have to go through a higher institution,
before you can go through a higher institution, you need to gain admission, before you can gain admission, you have to pass aptitude test, before you can pass aptitude test, you to pay huge money or read like there is no tomorrow, even if you have the money to pay or can read like "Howard Berg", you still have to pass JAMB, before you can pass JAMB, you have to decide your faith if you really want to do this, if you decide to do it, you have to pay money for "expo" or join the list of jamb customers that have been writing and trying to pass JAMB since
"Jona was a boy and now Jona is a Man and even a President of a country called Continent of Africa"
Let me ask you reader, what is the name of the Continent in Africa that has other countries inside it? Yes, you got it! Nigeria...The Tribalism, Diversity of Religion and Language Differences makes Nigeria a Continent in Africa and difficult to govern.
A boy asked me, do some people write and pass JAMB genuinely? I answered YES! He then went further to ask me, what are the possibilities? I now told him you have to register a private lesson, study really hard and hope in God not to fall in the wrong centre. He asked what do I mean by wrong centre? I told him, you may study hard and prepare well for the exams and somehow you might find yourself in a venue where malpractice flows and after the exams, JAMB will discover and tag that exam centre as MALPRACTICE even if some individuals wrote the exams stressing their brain all the candidates that wrote in that centre will be grouped and tagged as MALPRACTICE candidates and there will not be result for candidates that wrote in that centre. This will make the candidates become JAMB customers the following year.
Before you even think of writing JAMB, you have pass WAEC, before you can pass WAEC, you need to study hard as well...Do not forget that before you can be able to write WAEC, it takes approximately six years of going to school terms-to-terms.
This is the Line:
Finish Kindergarten
Go to Primary School
Finish Primary School
Go to Secondary School
Finish Secondary School
Write WAEC
Pass WAEC
Write JAMB
Pass JAMB
Write Aptitude Test
Pass Aptitude Test
Gain Admission
After gaining admission, that is where the struggle begins, you will be going for early morning lectures which is very common with freshers...You will then face what is called stress from multitudes, imagine 400-students in one classroom that is barely big enough for 60-students to fit in during examinations. In many Nigerian universities today, there is always no classrooms for year one (1) students so they pack plenty students like "rice in a cup" inside one classroom to receive lectures together. A room where students can barely breath, a room that ventilation cannot penetrate, a room that there is nothing good about the odour you perceive.
In examinations, the room that contains 400-students during lectures is used to contain just 60-students to prevent malpractice and when the result is released, it will be nothing to write home about and people will be complaining...A student asked why don't school authorities make lecture rooms conducive and organised as it is during exams? And I told him I Don't Know...
It does not end there, in an average Nigerian Universities, students suffer from intimidation from fellow students (cultists) and also suffer from intimidation from lecturers. Imagine a lecturer will walk into a class and say...
"If I say you will fail my course, you will fail it; even the Vice Chancellor of the University cannot do anything about it"
A male lecturer will ask a female student out and if the student refused, the lecturer will fail the student and if the students go and confront him and the lecturer will tell her,
"I failed you will continue to fail you in all the courses I will take you until you open your legs for me to come in"
The worst of it is that, nobody can do anything about it... I believe this is what led to the formation of cultism in Nigerian Universities in my understanding because if the school authority cannot protect them (the students), they have to protect themselves but just that cultism solved a little and added more problems that became bigger than the initial problem.
So after the much Hustle and Bustle (Aluta Continua) in the University and you are lucky to be alive to be called a graduate, there is enough reason to Thank God but this is not the end. National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) that is sometimes called Now Your Suffering Continues by some people pops-up, after graduation, you still have to spend one (1) year serving the Nation, the same Nation that is governed by a government that does not cater for the people but what will the people say or do when their Nation calls them? Nothing!
These graduates now called Call Members sometimes put their lives on the line to go to uncivilised remote areas where there is no electricity, no drinkable water, no cell phone service, no proper medical service, no good roads and many more... Sometimes it takes by the grace of God for Call Members to go for NYSC and come back with their live because some Call Members / Youth Corpers are not so lucky go make it alive.
Some of the female Call Members get raped and abused sometimes in some areas, some call members get robbed of valuable items, some die on their way travelling to or from their place of primary assignment, and some even get slaughtered by these so-called Boko Haram members since the uprising of Boko Haram in recent years. NYSC is like one in a lifetime experience when you have to go and live in a place that you have never been or live in before and may never wish to live in that place again for the rest of your life and give the occupants education which is a good thing to do but...
So many parents have lost their children to NYSC and many others have condemned it and flagged in on the news so that the government will see reasons and disband NYSC but the Government still insist that NYSC must prevail.
During this period of NYSC, each call members are being paid a sum of N19,800 (Nineteen Thousand, Eight Hundred Naira) which is approximately $128.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Eight American Dollar) by the Federal Government, while the state normally an average fee of N5,000 (Five Thousand Naira) approximately $33.00 (Thirty-three American Dollar) in addition to the allowance paid by the Federal Government.
After the Twelve (12) months of Serving Nigeria, this is the time all graduates will face their own fear. You have the zeal to work, you have the qualifications for the job, but no job; expectations from your parents, siblings and yourself are high at this stage but what will you do? You do not have any influential uncle or aunt at any company /organisation and you are looking for a just by just attending normal interviews in Nigeria, where will you see it when you are not a prayer warrior? Maybe you will have to look for the job by force by standing with your credentials at a company gate and wrestle the manager that you need a job a job else you will die with him that minute, he may just consider and make you his personal driver...
Imagine facing all the stress in going to school, serve the country and still end up living from hand to mouth. Sometimes if you are fortunate enough, you might get a job that the pay will just be enough to keep you alive but you cannot a life of spending a night at a hotel cost N10,000 ($65) because your salary is N50,000 ($322). What baffles me the most is that even if you squeeze to manage this salary to rent an apartment, marry and raise children, how can you manage to buy a car that is almost a necessity?
These are the reasons why graduate youths travel out of Nigeria to sale one of their Kidneys to raise money to invest, some other engage in cyber crimes (419), others engage in armed robbery and many other activities that we find disturbing...
I cannot say what they do is right or good but I can say all living things have to survive...Even fish that eats worms sometimes eat another fish during starvation. The bible says in Ecclesiastes 4:5 A fool is someone that folds his hands and eats his own flesh. Where there is hunger and starvation, what pops-up in a humans mind is "Survivor".
Not until these issues affecting Nigerian youths are looked into, things will keep going wrong...With God, I understand some few things that will bridge the gap and drastically reduce the crime rate and thereby putting a smile on the face of Nigerians in Nigeria and Nigerians in Diaspora and even non-Nigerians that suffer from this known course...If you have any question or needs advice on this, write me via jointarena@gmail.com
Article by Kevwe Ubor...
www.jointarena.com
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