JUST FOR N60-My Hall 3 experience
I lifted up my eyes to reply the greeting sounding from the
room's entrance. Though I wasn't the only one in the room but
it was ethical for everyone in the room to respond to such. I
glimpsed him through my net but the words succeeding his
greeting prompted my gaze. "I can mop your room for N60,
but for N50 if you supply me the detergent to do so"-sounds
like an announcement he has made through out the hostel in
search of a positive reply. What? My brain doubted my ears,
my emotions were overwhelmed with mixed feelings; It was a
good idea because the room was dirty and he needed money
and on the contrary I couldn't imagine someone doing such a
shameful job for penny ante. After he ended his manifesto, a
protracted wind of silence swept all over the room which was
aroused in transient discussion prior to his appearance. In the
middle of the silence we spoke with our spirits and our eyes
were our mouth. "Yes you can begin" a room mate replied with
a re-affirming nod from others to give him the impression that
he was going to get paid. "Then I will start right away" he said,
before the blink of an eye he disappeared and re-appeared
with two buckets of water and a mop stick. As he mopped, I
tried to search through his face to see his anguish but there
was none, instead he sang with a melodious but ill-sounding
voice. Something in me wanted to ask, "Why are you doing
this?" But my lips remained tightly shut unable to utter a word.
A fore thinking that it will sound as mockery. In my soliloquy I
imagined how hard it must have been for him to put all his ego
aside, in search for daily bread at the cost of his pride. Of
course a students like we are. A campus where everyone wants
to keep his shoulders high to earn social respect. The
misfortune that hit him had made shame and sense of social
stigma an alien to his feelings. On the brighter side, it was
better than resulting to criminal acts for survival. Truth be said,
all these are implicated in the high level of poverty and
economic hardship in the country. And yet they will say
"Nigeria has one of the fastest growing economy in the world"
and yet local statistics have nothing to show for these, instead
the cost of living gets sky-rocketed and standard of living an
inflicting pain..
By Ajayi Eneye David
300 level Pharmacy Uniben

Hmmm so touchin

Abi o, that is the kind of country we find ourselves