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Episode 2 I was resting in my sitting room
after a very stressful exam day
when my phone rang with its
loud ringtone.
I lazily stared at the unknown
number calling for some seconds before answering. “good evening sir” a female
voice greeted. I instantly knew
the voice belonged to one of my
students which made me clear
my throat and answer with a
gruff voice. “yea who are you?” i asked
seriously. “hello sir, my name is comfort.
I’m one of your students. Please
i wish to speak to you. It’s very
urgent. Actually i’m in front of
your house” she announced,
sending me up on my feet with shock.
I was extremely surprised to
learn that the girl was in front
of my house because I never
made the mistake of giving my
house address to any of my students. “you mean you are in front of
my house?” i asked to be sure. “emmm not entirely in front of
your house, but inside a shop
very close to your house” she
answered without fear. “what do you want?” i asked. “your help sir” she replied. “fine wait there. I’m coming
out” i replied, hung up and left
my sitting room to see what the
bold girl wanted. The few months
i spent so far in the job had
taught me that male students are more scared of lecturers
than female students. I couldn’t
imagine what the girl wanted
from me. I slowly crossed over to the small
shop opposite my house where a
very light skinned beauty smiled
at me. She was really beautiful
and sharply dressed i must
confess. “so what do you want?” i
asked seriously, throwing out a
frown like a stern lecturer. “sir you know i’m in final
year?” she asked calmly,
drawing more anger from me
with the question. “i can’t really recognize your
face, what do you want?” i
asked again. “i missed Bio 301 exam today
and i can’t just spend an extra
year over it. You got to help me
please” she said boldly, throwing
me into another wave of shock. “what do you mean i got to help
you ehh” i asked with a raised
tone. She quickly tried to kneel
before me but i stopped her
right on time. “just help me, even if it’s with
an “E” i don’t mind doing
anything for it” she begged. “but how come a big girl like you
missed such an important
Exam?” i asked suspiciously. I
already knew how most of the
girls travelled around even
during exam period. “i thought the exam was to hold
by 12noon as was written on
the time table only to discover
that it held by 9am” she
answered quietly, while i
breathed deeply. “you will hear from me
tomorrow, just go back to your
lodge and don’t try the
nonsense of coming to my house
again” i said to her seriously.
_ I really spent most of that
fateful night thinking of what to
do. A part of me wanted to help
her, since i still had the answer
scripts in my office and equally
was the only lecturer handling the course after Dr Ogbonna
travelled to India two months
ago, but another part of me
frowned over helping her.
I really was caught between
doing the right thing or taking the wrong step. It could equally
be a set up, which i wasn’t blind
about. I just couldn’t reach any
decision that fateful night.
__ As soon as i got to my office
early the next day. The young
lady walked into my office with a
calm smile on her face. I frowned
on seeing her which she noticed
and drew closer to me without fear. “please sir you got to help me.
I’m 28yrs old, i can’t afford
staying an extra year. I’m
already way behind in
everything” she begged. “so what do you want me to do
eeh?. Supposing you participated
in the exam but wrote nothing it
could have been a different
issue. But you missed the exam.
Your record isn’t anywhere” i answered. “i can get an answer booklet,
and write the exam anywhere
you want. All i need is for you to
accept it when i’m done” she
said boldly, giving me the
impression that she has done such a thing before. “so what’s in it for me, why
should i risk my career for
you?” i asked curiously. She
smiled. “sir do you have a guest room
in town?” she softly asked,
slapping my ears with the
unexpected question.

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pisode 1 Most African university
graduates do dream of becoming
a lecturer. We all know about
the bright future of lecturers,
the respect they controlled and
the wealth that followed them. Yea being a lecturer gives one
the opportunity to get to the
very top if he’s serious about
it.
As a lecturer you have a clear
path towards becoming a professor and it’s now left for
you to work towards making it
happen. I was opportune to travel to
Canada for my masters degree,
immediately after my Nysc in
2006. I returned to Nigeria two
years later and quickly married a
family friend’s daughter whose father was equally the Dean of
Education faculty in the
university that employed me two
months after my wedding. I had
my life well planned out. I already
knew what to do and what not to do in achieving my goals.
My parents were equally
supportive and moderately
wealthy. They supported me in
everything.
Being the last child in the family of two girls, i was overly
pampered by my parents and
siblings, even after my marriage
to Jessica who equally was a
nurse in the state General
hospital. I soon started work as a
lecturer with a strong spirit
towards correcting all the
wrongs in the university system.
I swore to stand straight in my
dealings with students. I swore never to compromise my dignity
and be a good man respected by
everyone but unfortunately it
was easier said than done. Being
a lecturer opened my eyes to
the realities on ground. Politics and corruption was already well
embedded in the university
system that you either join in
the show or look the other way.
I was young and ambitious. The
options before me was simply unimaginable. Hmmmm, well at first i was
forced to look the other way
and face my classroom work,
which i did with great zeal . I
handled Bio 101, 102, 201, 202,
301, 354 & 402. It really wasn’t easy for me at all and to worsen
my situation some of the senior
lecturers i shared the courses
with, left everything for me to
handle alone and the number of
students offering the courses were quite enormous. But that wasn’t even the major
problem. As soon as the first
exam i was to participate as a
lecturer arrived, more
temptations poured in..
The first temptation was from final year student known as
comfort. She was the first to
tempt me.

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