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I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by MoNickk(f): 6:06pm On Mar 15, 2015
my neighbour just returned from visiting her eldest daughter in boarding school and it made me remember and reminisce about when I was also in boarding school so here's my experience; I started boarding school in ss1 so I didn't cry when I was being dropped off but I remember feeling alone and small. I tried to ward off stares from other students and act like I actually belonged but before long I realised that I was still a learner when it came to some things so I found succor in being rude and believe me my rudeness got me into uglier situations than out of it. Made friends and my fair share of enemies but guess what? I survived boarding school in Nigeria!

pls share your experiences in boarding schools, what you learned and what you enjoyed most.

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Dyt(f): 6:11pm On Mar 15, 2015
I am glad I entered COMLAG in the time of OBASA
If not, I for hear Wien
Wasn't easy sha
I never cried when my mum drops me off
I was stubborn, rude, calm, bully, bullied grin

Was I really bullied?
cheesy cheesy cheesy

In all COMLAG gave me a life time experience

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Gboliwe: 6:21pm On Mar 15, 2015
It was in the dorm I learnt to cook most food with boiling ring. I also learnt to sleep naked. It was in the dorm I learnt to walk around the house naked *covers my face. I also learnt to weave hair in the dorm. I also learnt to manage money. If you like, chop all your money, you will be worse off. Above all, it was in the dorm I learnt so much about human nature. Now I remember it, It was fun, then, it was madness!

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by MoNickk(f): 8:36pm On Mar 15, 2015
Gboliwe:
Boarding school was fun. Back then, amongst our neigbours, it was like the best thing to send your kids off to a boarding school.
So, when I was 9, I took the federal govt college (unity) common entrance. We were three from my hood. We all passed but Jumai was thrown to FGGC Abuloma, Ronke was flung to FGGC Owerri and mini me was thrown to FGGC Gusau. We were all crying because it was so far away from home.

Our parents understood and tried to "work" it back to closer states but me and Ronke weren't that lucky and that's how we both ended up in another unity school and we had mad fun

It was in the dorm I learnt to cook most food with boiling ring. I also learnt to sleep naked. It was in the dorm I learnt to walk around the house naked *covers my face. I also learnt to weave hair in the dorm. I also learnt to manage money. If you like, chop all your money, you will be worse off. Above all, it was in the dorm I learnt so much about human nature. Now I remember it, It was fun, then, it was madness!
lol. In the dorm I learnt how to cope and live independently. learnt how to save by fire by force. also learnt how to cut grass cos I always got into trouble either for wrong uniform or wrong colour of sandals. lol. learnt how to fight and stand up for myself. mhen. ..when I look back now, i learnt a lot.

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by talk2riel: 11:44pm On Mar 15, 2015
In the boarding school I learnt when to wake up early 4:30am the bell still rings in head after 20 years.

In the boarding school I learnt how to cook n fry oil with boiling ring just like gboliwe[once cooked a full goat with boiling ring]

In the boarding school I learnt how to wash better than a washing machine

In the boarding school I learnt how to survive a week without cash.

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by joywendy(f): 9:07pm On Mar 16, 2015
it is fun if your school doesn't have over strict rules

very terrible experience i pray not to meet such in my next life if there is a next life.

Though i learnt alot of things there that made me stronger.

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by amosamali(m): 12:19am On Jun 17, 2015
Dyt:
I am glad I entered COMLAG in the time of OBASA
If not, I for hear Wien
Wasn't easy sha
I never cried when my mum drops me off
I was stubborn, rude, calm, bully, bullied grin

Was I really bullied?
cheesy cheesy cheesy

In all COMLAG gave me a life time experience


Ex-commando

I see U

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by vicraven(m): 11:43pm On Jan 17, 2016
learned to speak pidgin,and sleep with only boxers..hehehe

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by marcusghii(m): 1:26am On Jan 18, 2016
Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Nobody: 7:13am On Jun 10, 2016
MoNickk:
my neighbour just returned from visiting her eldest daughter in boarding school and it made me remember and reminisce about when I was also in boarding school so here's my experience; I started boarding school in ss1 so I didn't cry when I was being dropped off but I remember feeling alone and small. I tried to ward off stares from other students and act like I actually belonged but before long I realised that I was still a learner when it came to some things so I found succor in being rude and believe me my rudeness got me into uglier situations than out of it. Made friends and my fair share of enemies but guess what? I survived boarding school in Nigeria!

pls share your experiences in boarding schools, what you learned and what you enjoyed most.
hey beautiful, i sent you a pm. Pls reply
Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Nobody: 1:11pm On Jun 01, 2018
Dyt:
I am glad I entered COMLAG in the time of OBASA
If not, I for hear Wien
Wasn't easy sha
I never cried when my mum drops me off
I was stubborn, rude, calm, bully, bullied grin

Was I really bullied?
cheesy cheesy cheesy

In all COMLAG gave me a life time experience
when u finish from comlag? My brother and I attended 2 diff boarding schools. He attended comlag ipaja while I attended another one after spending 2 years in comlag '96- '98.
Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Dyt(f): 1:16pm On Jun 01, 2018
NwaChibuzor100:
when u finish from comlag? My brother and I attended 2 diff boarding schools. He attended comlag ipaja while I attended another one after spending 2 years in comlag '96- '98.

Finished 2002

Entered 1996
I rep Tiger house
And I think I was in Ruby from the start

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Nobody: 1:23pm On Jun 01, 2018
Dyt:


Finished 2002

Entered 1996
I rep Tiger house
And I think I was in Ruby from the start
Cool I no even remember my own house again sef. Just saw a friends daughter 's magazine from her graduation last year. That's their current commandant I think. That school was hell men but things sure have changed now.

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Dyt(f): 1:33pm On Jun 01, 2018
NwaChibuzor100:

Cool I no even remember my own house again sef. Just saw a friends daughter 's magazine from her graduation last year. That's their current commandant I think. That school was hell men but things sure have changed now.

Ofcus it was lol

The boys suffered most
Different punishments
Plant
Face the sun
Pushing a drawn car
Holding a wet bunk with boiler on
It was terrible for the boys

Well the girls were not left out

But in all
We survived it all

cheesy grin

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Nobody: 1:40pm On Jun 01, 2018
Dyt:


Ofcus it was lol

The boys suffered most
Different punishments
Plant
Face the sun
Pushing a drawn car
Holding a wet bunk with boiler on
It was terrible for the boys

Well the girls were not left out

But in all
We survived it all

cheesy grin
I swear I remembered the first day my papa dropped me off. There was no money . My mates were coming with cars we came with bike and 2 Ghana must go grin . Na cloth wey I nor go later need and like 1 sack of garri wey dem don package for me full am. The man no even send me he just drop me for gate make I find my square root. Anyways I was very happy because I felt I've finally gotten my freedom and can now do whatever I like without anybody disturbing my life. Nna mehn weeks later when they came for visiting day see as I dey cry make dem carry me back go house.

Abeg shout out to these 3 schools.

Command ipaja (comlag)
Mayflower ikenne and
BMHS Ijegun.

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Dyt(f): 1:47pm On Jun 01, 2018
NwaChibuzor100:
I swear I remembered the first day my papa dropped me off. There was no money . My mates were coming with cars we came with bike and 2 Ghana must go grin . Na cloth wey I nor go later need and like 1 sack of garri wey dem don package for me full am. The man no even send me he just drop me for gate make I find my square root. Anyways I was very happy because I felt I've finally gotten my freedom and can now do whatever I like without anybody disturbing my life. Nna mehn weeks later when they came for visiting day see as I dey cry make dem carry me back go house.


grin cheesy
Every visiting days were like heaven for us
Tears flowing

Hahahahaha
But 6 years
I survived
I am a champion

Hahahahaha

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Nobody: 3:06pm On Jun 01, 2018
Lalasticlala go boarding house at all ??
Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by fortune5351(m): 6:56pm On Jun 01, 2018
Dyt:
I am glad I entered COMLAG in the time of OBASA
If not, I for hear Wien
Wasn't easy sha
I never cried when my mum drops me off
I was stubborn, rude, calm, bully, bullied grin

Was I really bullied?
cheesy cheesy cheesy

In all COMLAG gave me a life time experience
Obasa was my Deputy Commandant back then in NMS Zaria.
Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Dyt(f): 6:59pm On Jun 01, 2018
fortune5351:

Obasa was my Deputy Commandant back then in NMS Zaria.

Well
He was the commandant in COMLAG 1996

He was strict exactly what they needed
He brought discipline

It was his time we started eating bread
Ofcus I was just in my jss1
Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by soberdrunk(m): 7:35pm On Jun 01, 2018
I survived NNSS Borokiri till they kicked my ass out, boarding house was a major life transformation process for me because i went from "ajebutter" to "Thug life" overnight. I remember entering Jss1 with a very heavy box and coming back home for holidays with an almost empty box, they stole almost everything i had because i was a careless amateur ajebutter, they continued to steal all my stuff until i got to Jss2 and became a 'cartel member'. My school father was one of the 'baddest' seniors and he made me a 'young thug', by the time i was in Jss3 i had become so notorious that even the seniors consulted me for 'jobs', i was the 'go to guy' for contrabands, smuggling in of suya, fried yam and just about anything you needed from the barracks or outside school walls. I finally got kicked out for masterminding one of the biggest heists ever, i miss those days though, bitter sweet memories, you had to be sharp to survive and never display weakness or you will be taken advantage of, back then we feared and respected our senoirs so much that they were like 'mini gods'

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by lyriclekidd(m): 7:35pm On Jun 01, 2018
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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Shortyy(f): 7:36pm On Jun 01, 2018
I went through hell in boarding school.

My school being a missionary school, it wasn't easy for us at all. Especially the Junior one's.

If I begin to tell the story, it'd be published as a novel cuz it was all shitty the whole time.

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Nobody: 7:36pm On Jun 01, 2018
Heineken:
Ha...fgc ilorin. If you no go truly u no go no as e be. Boarding fit make you bad for ever. It was damn crazy
Really
Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by dhabrite(m): 7:36pm On Jun 01, 2018
If you survived the "second home" in Mayflower school Ikenne, Ogun State. The most rugged hostel you could be at in the school, then you would most likely survive the sambisa forest.

A big S/O to all exmays home and abroad. cool

The road is really rough as Baba Tai would say!!

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Speakdatruth: 7:36pm On Jun 01, 2018
Teenagers thread I suppose

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by nabegibeg: 7:39pm On Jun 01, 2018
MoNickk:
my neighbour just returned from visiting her eldest daughter in boarding school and it made me remember and reminisce about when I was also in boarding school so here's my experience; I started boarding school in ss1 so I didn't cry when I was being dropped off but I remember feeling alone and small. I tried to ward off stares from other students and act like I actually belonged but before long I realised that I was still a learner when it came to some things so I found succor in being rude and believe me my rudeness got me into uglier situations than out of it. Made friends and my fair share of enemies but guess what? I survived boarding school in Nigeria!

pls share your experiences in boarding schools, what you learned and what you enjoyed most.

How old are you and your neighbor's daughter

Lie keeh you there

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by xoxocandy(f): 7:40pm On Jun 01, 2018
Lol I only lasted a year as a boarder.
I was a stubborn 9year old in jss1 with lots of senior "enemies"
Thanks to my eventual school mother in ss3 I punished most of them.
School mother graduated,my enemies tripled so I saved myself the stress of returning for jss2

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by Viergeachar: 7:40pm On Jun 01, 2018
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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by owomida1: 7:41pm On Jun 01, 2018
Repping FGCIK

O boy, the suffer na suffer.

Seniors, sch authority, even mates. And parents sef.

My children must feel the heat coz it made me blaady rugged for tertiary inst.

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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by OLAFIMIX(f): 7:42pm On Jun 01, 2018
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Re: I Survived Boarding School In Nigeria! A Thread For All Boarders In Nigeria. by owomida1: 7:42pm On Jun 01, 2018
Shortyy:
I went through hell in boarding school.

My school being a missionary school, it wasn't easy for us at all. Especially the Junior one's.

If I begin to tell the story, it'd be published as a novel cuz it was all shitty the whole time.

Be lying in one corner there. So u no flex as senior.

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