₦airaland Forum

Jengbetiele:
Let me quickly share my story with you....the best sermon is one's personal experience. I left secondary school in 2004. By 2005, I got admitted to a state university in Ekiti State. After two years of studies in Ekiti state, I discovered the program i was doing was not accredited. To make the story worse, nearly all lecturers in the faculty of science passionately disliked the program. It was called SLT then. Consequently, they mark down our papers. Not only that, they call us all sorts of names like NFA, unfortunate students and the likes anyone who attended the university and did that course can attest to what i am saying. My dad happens to be a staff of the University, so i told him about the poor grades, everything i heard about the program, and the intensity of the lecturer's hatred for the program all to no avail. All he said was whenever students dont want to read, they come up with different flimsy excuses so i kept mute.

After five years of my life in that school, my dad was made one of the board members of the faculty so he saw the whole results since the inception of the program. He saw so may spill over students from year 2000, and the fact that the program has not been accredited. I was in 500 level(final year) then with alot of carry overs.....carry over is not a big deal in that program....people had 15. My father saw how bad it was and he immediately invited me to his office for a meeting. He blamed himself for not listening to me when i complained 3 years earlier and he said he would want me to transfer immediately. That was how i took my transcript and returned to 200level in another school entirely when i ought to graduate with maybe a third class or a pass.

I wasted 5years of my life in Ekiti as a result of this, i was so sad and depressed. Merely sitting with my younger brother's age mate turned my stomach in anger. Infact when i got to the new school, my own younger brother who i happened to be ahead of by 3years became my senior. The retrogression started affecting my grades such that attending classes became a burden. Along the line, i sat myself down and reasoned deeply about how my life has been. For crying out loud, I used to the best student in secondary school. I was only unfortunate to have attended the wrong program in Ekiti. Though i wasn't given any certificate despite the number of years spent but what about the life lessons i learnt?. I made a concrete decision to change my attitude towards my new classmates and I began to humble myself to a fault. Above all, i began to see my new school as the golden opportunity to start afresh again. My declining grades all of a sudden began to soar so high such that i had 5.0/5.0 in one of the semesters and i ended finishing top 5 out of the class of about 300.

Today, I am currently in Canada on a graduate program fully funded by a Canadian university. Up till now, I am yet to spend a dime of myself in Canada because the scholarship covered everything. Guess what?, I even got two scholarships from two different universities and just last week, I got another funding again. Yes just last week! What if i had committed suicide then? . Would i have seen the goodness almighty God has packaged in my future today? What i am saying in essence is you can fall as much as possible but whenever you fall and refuse to rise again is when you failed. The righteous shall fall seven times.....but they shall rise again.

Conclusively, whatever the case maybe, dust up yourself and try again. Do not give up so easily because winners never quit and quitters never win. I am sure very soon you gonna look back and smile. Every successful man or woman at some point had a share of that gloomy period when you feel you are all alone and the world is about comming down on you. But I am happy to announce to you that alot of people have tread this same path and today they have become success and point of reference in the society. Brother, it is never how far, but how well and tough time never lasts tough people do!!!!!!

pansophist:
I really do not understand this mentality of expecting every immigrant returning to their country of birth (I dont see it as ''home country'')
People find peace in diferent geographical region of the planet and this has been happening since primordial.
Consciously choosing to live in niaja is a punishment for me from all angles, I will prefer a safer environment where people act sanely.
Home is anywhere you feel comfotable and connected to, not a place of birth.

19naia:
Very Good post you put here.. Nigerians in Nigeria are eager to show that they have much to offer and an economy to tout.
But the truth is that they have their heads in their own bucket and have little reference to know that Nigeria is seriously over priced with a seriously underperforming general state of quality in the country. Any real quality exsist in extremely overpriced small pockets scattered about amid what is mostly a slum quality nation.
The eager money makers inflate price any where and time they can get away with it and then call themselves wealthy by it. And the price of that "sin" is the constant instability of the Naira as it lives in perpetual free fall. One day a nigerian billionaire has a $ value of wealth, and the next its drastically lower by the depreciation of the Naira his wealth exist in.
Eventually, Nigeria prices will go so far beyond what people enjoy in USA and Europe, that foriegn interest will never look to Nigeria beyond the desire for oil and raw materials to just export quick and minimize involvement. International equitabilty is a serious matter that nigerians seem to overlook when seeking profit and international investors. It will cost Nigeria in the long run and keep the Naira always falling.
Nigerians need to remember that there are so many cheaper countries in the world with better quality of living in general, in south america ,asia and even eastern europe.
I know Nigeria has some very cheap options, but those are in extreme squalor and even that squalor is overpriced compared to some south american and south asian countries with their own prices of squalored living.
I am not just talking, i have lived in countries in asia and south america and have spent on lodging and food while experiencing the standard of living in as many as 17 countries so far. I will soon be adding more to my list of visited countries and i dont see Nigeria faring any better when i compare it to even more countries.
I will visit Nigeria, but i hope family and friends there wont vex wit me when my attitude about spending there is sour. I just have so many other options to live decent for less. It will cheaper for me to turn back around and fly out to The Americas to stay, than to fork over money in Nigeria to feed the "Big Boy" hype.

Osezzua:
I disagree with ur sarcastic comment. I'm from Edo state. The way this country was being ran is shameful and offends the sensibilities of d so - called minorities. Firstly, let's take a look at how power has been shared in our over 50 years of independence. The fact is Nigeria has dealt treacherously with d Igbos. We should apologise to dem and try to appease them this time around. It takes very intelligent but little effort to ferment trouble. If d Igbos have become unsatisfied in this entity called Nigeria, one democratically acceptable option is conduct a referendum. don't muzzle any nigerian who has right to freedom of speech and opinion. Biafra has refused to die because the injustices that led to it are still very active. Anambra iron ore is d purest form in this country, why was ajaokuta iron ore mining company taken to Kogi instead of Anambra? The Igbos are very enterprising, why do they always have to come as far as lagos to pick up imported commodities when they could go to Warri, calabar, Onne etc. The southwest has MMA, The north has airports in Kano n Abuja, what airport does the Igbos have? name one major power generating station in the category of Egbin, kainji, mambilla etc that d Igbos have? have we not marginalised them enough?