Benjamin Oshokoya, six, is a young boy bubbling with life. Now in Basic Two in one of the best schools around the Shangisha area of Lagos, his dream of becoming an accountant in the near future is gradually taking shape. Privileged to be born into a financially stable family, he is enjoying the best type of education money can buy. His life outside the school setting is also an interesting bit. With a vast array of luxury at his disposal and a massive prospect ahead, little Ben cannot ask for more. But fast forward 240 kilometers away in Opoo, a remote community at the outskirts of Okaka in Itesiwaju Local Government Area of Oyo State, life is a different mix for Abiola Bankole and her two little siblings – Yemi and Ibukun. Unlike Benjamin’s posh school with all the modern facilities to aid learning, their school, Community Primary School Opoo, boasts only three classrooms with no basic facilities to support any meaningful academic exercise. Two out of the three classrooms have their roof completely blown off by the wind while the only surviving one shared by the entire school of about 150 pupils is half way from finally caving. More than half of the schools population wear mufti to classes because their parents cannot afford uniforms. Many of the children carry their books to school in sacks or with their bare hands. Not only that, pupils drink water mixed with cattle urine and faeces as the only source of water in community is shared by both animals and human begins. For the three siblings and dozens of their little colleagues in this tiny agrarian community, there is nothing to dream about in the future. The harsh environment they live in and the terrible condition under which they learn at this dilapidated school building rob them of the frills that come along with formative years. “I want to be a doctor,” seven-year-old Abiola said to our correspondent in an emotional show of ambition. Yemi, her five-year-old sibling, who could not hide his excitement at seeing a new face in the community on this day, wants to be a teacher on his part. But sadly, all those lofty dreams might never go beyond this tiny settlement – they might evaporate into thin air before many of these children make the seven-kilometre trip that separates Opoo and the nearest town – Alaga or even farther at Okaka where things are a bit fairer. “We have encountered a lot of problems in this place especially on the bad condition of the school,” Ojelabi David Abioye, headmaster of the school, explained to our correspondent. 
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Chei, people are suffering o. God where are you?

Our government bad ooh. Why are they punishing the purported leaders of tomorrow this way? Is this what we would continue to face in this enclave called Nigeria? When will our leaders learn to replicate what they have been seeing overseas in their state? ...we still have a long way to go in education.

Janjaweedian state!