If you asked me, I would tell you that JAMB is the most frustrating institution in Nigeria. Forget NEPA, PHCN, or whatever their name now is; forget bad roads; forget unemployment; if possible, forget corruption. And let’s focus on JAMB for a moment. Do you know that JAMB can make you study what’s not in your destiny? Or that they can make you look like a dumbass amongst your friends? Check the number of people who haven’t gotten admission into any tertiary institution, or those who are studying courses they don’t know what it’s all about, then you’ll understand my point. If not for JAMB, how would I have known about Applied Biochemistry, the course I studied for four years?

And my story started on 16th December, 2014. Earlier in the year, I’d taken WAEC, and later JAMB like most of my peers. At the time, I’d put Pharmacy, instead of the Medicine and Surgery almost everyone was clamoring for. What’s the hype about Medicine anyway?

“But Somtoo, you’re too brilliant to settle for a lesser course,” a secondary school teacher had opined. Really? What makes any course lesser than the other? Of course, I couldn’t argue with her, as she would have used the earnings of various professionals to rest her case.

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