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Isjaymoh: Pls help!
I had my O'level completed
Eng C4
Maths C6
Econs C6
Govt C4
Bio C6
Acct C4
Com C4
Agric C6
Yor C6
Which course is ok for my O'level under administration/social science, am thinking of Economic Or Accounting.
And which institute can u suggest for me to choose. Well, am from Kwara state, am thinking of choosing Unilorin as first and Kware State Uni as second Or Unilorin first and UI second, pls advice me.

okay ure goose 2 go 4 any course in administration, irt all depend on wat u love doin d most

shol: See brother forget that one just advise them to study hard and pray hard,they can choose d most competitive course anywhere if they do well God willing dey'll be offered admission I know of a girl who chose ilorin as second choice and she was taken foe accounting wen d second list came out and I know of four people including myself whom ilorin gave Economics major and we chose her as second choice 3 didn't go beecause lag gave us this same Economics, still its all to the glory of God and hardwork, just believe.
And one last thing pls guys I beg u in the name of God never ever I repeat never take d same school as first and second choice. Thank U and I repeat again with God impossible is nothing. I rep Unilag #homo-economicus

don't say what you don't know unilorin dores not mean all school is like unilorin, listen to me, you said you rep economics in unilag...by the grace of God I am the founder of unilag expert tutors and unilag vabes on facebook if you're not a member you can join, go check for yourself, UNILAG DON'T ACCEPT 2nd choice and mind ypou you can never be admitted as a second choice candidate for a competitive course except you have outstanding mark and the grace of God that is for other school, remember readers are leaders

Posd: I have a probs with my jamb name....my waec was ojeleke damilare lekan nd i made a mistake while reg 4 jamb i put ojeleke lekan damilare......what shld i do?

if that the issue do the exam first then after the exam You can resolve it..by going to jamb office

Read wise and be wise, the admission package now is now based on the grace of GOd not what you know but choicers too should be kept in place to counter any form of disapproval,with hars word and God grace, yopu can be matriculated....chaos God bless

walesdam: Thanks.

ure welcome

walesdam: Pls i need an advice. I hv b3s in my o'lvl result n i wanna go for medicine u.i. My question is, which skul can i choose as 2nd choice n when is jamb form closing? Thanks

if ure talking about a school you can choose for second choice for the sme course..I would advise you go for a state school which is not even sure when an outstanding mark can't be attained as a resukt of second choice.....I would advise you go for a less competitive course for second choice

This is an advice to every aspirant of any school here in this forum,this is to tell you that any competitive course is not advisable for second choice,mind you if you can't have outstanding mark in your jamb and post utme,forget any school to granting you admission for any competitive course as second choice....don't take your first choice likrely that where your hope of getting admission lies.....remember readers are leaders

The two novels the successors and the potter's wheel that was introduce last year has been summarise by me, check other thread for info....and for the pdf I fink the link would be provided but foR now that of last year is still invoke,,,,,,,,$$$$$$$$ remember READERS ARE LEADERS

Dr.'Hesjay:
nop...it happened to a neighbour of mine last year..they gave her admission into medicine..buh she was sent to zoology during screening

the admission pattern of each year differs,,,so never you compare even last year with this recent one....

Odunhana: what if u have good utme and post ume score to back up ur O'level lapses?

yes that goose to go...do anything to cover your lapses then your dream will come true

Kunlexic: Do u knw abt oau maybe they accept 2sittings 4 all courses?

they accept two sittings... You can go ahead

The potters wheel is by chukwuemeka ike otheR books written by him are as follows 1toads 4 supper 2sunset at dawn 3 bottled leopard 4the Unclad girls 5 the chicken chasers 6 expo77.the book was first publish in 1973. The book is a work of fiction and unreal the story was shot during the colonial era obuechina maduabuchi was the son of mazi lazarus popularly known as egwu na amu in their village called umuchukwu obu father was trader who deals in clothing obu father hardly stay at home be cos he is hardworking obu was the 6th child and only boy in the house he is preceded by 5 girls uzoamaka;nkiru,njideka. Nkechi, ogechukwu note according to their age number while obu was the six born follow by amuche the last born. Obu was given 5 names after being given birth because he was a relieve to his parent having seek a baby boy for a long time the names are as follow obuechina .ezenwa, nwokenagu , onyibo (companion to his father)obiano(companion to his mother)obu had refuse to go to school when he was 5 years but last he went and eventualy he was more brilant in d family obu came first in the standard 1 examination n was happy and his father was happy with him his father ask him to request 4 wat he wanted and he requested 4 a goat and his father said they already have one for christmas n requested his father to teach him how to ride a bicycle.his father bought him a red flute label made in japan obu best friend was oti he went to his to show his new flute to him but he was not around he has accompany samuel said oti mother samuel who is refer to as trickter, bully, agressive,...samuel was not in the age group of obu and oti they nickname him ( nwa etogha mpio ) obu father has a bicycle which he has been riding it 4 past 15 yrs but he was not the first person to own a bicycle it was chief okeke okafo in the umuatulu clan the head quater of umuchukwu and he consider the bicycle as a blind horse because he didn't know how to control its brake which usualy took him past his destination b4 he could stopped.david was one of obu friend he is the most expose of all because he is used to traveling out the town he is the only that could speak pingin english well in umuchukwu and his father is a constable in nnewi.david senior obu with a class and he is mature than obu and david is the leader of their group which they are five . obu was meant to die at the age of 9 becos he was an ogbanje.obu mother decided to consult a ogbanje expert called nwomiko but obu father was not in support of that becos he was catechist. but obu mother can bear loosing his son ,so when mazi went to go and collect money from his debtor in the neigbouring village she invited the women in accompany with her servant carrying basket several gift was given to her which are as follows a comb,12 large coconut,3 yams, six yard of jioji,six yard of clothing shirt .1 rooster.the woman did the ritual and it was successful a stone was bury to present obu life the name of the stone is called ogbanje stone.it was on a christmas when obu put on obu put on his christmas cloth which was being sew by dennis the tailor after d christmas service obu went home and eat he didn't eat his head of chicken becos he was at haste so he kept it 4 diner it was their day to parade in maquarade so they drew out the name of whom they are visting no 1 was nwafor mazi he gave them a packet of biscuit and 5 shillings no 2 was ogbonia the tinker he was refer to as a miser he gave them half shilling which he ceremiously handed it to david after much sermon how to be useful to their parents no 3 was dennis the tailor on their to his house a real masquerade which is called obiora masquarade and they all run 4 dear life.and they said it was the hardwork of samuel becos he had tried to joined them but they resisted him they were 5 in that group and they have pledge to not admit anyone again.obu has wanted to become a engineer or doctor in future.olpeze and okpunifite was the remote village to umumuchukwu.the film was shot during the colonial era that is the second world war they were some film showed in ilo hockey they are as follows the first supporting film consist of shot said to have been taken in the war front the shots are shots of bridges,shot of gigantic or big buildings ,shots of accident.the film potray the british to be humane and courageous while the german was described as heartless,greedy,and senseless while the second film showed how the palm kernel and rubber collected from various village help win the war. the main was in a form of animal kingdom the cobra represent the germany which mean evil while mongose represent the power of light suprisely the mongose overcome the cobra.

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MANKIND 12:45:31 Sat, 17 Mar 2012
THE POTTER's WHEEL
Author:- Chukwuemeka Ike
(10 Questions and Total Mark = 25} (265 Pages)

"The Potter's Wheel" tells of Obuechina Maduabuchi (mouthful), the only brother of six older sisters, prize pupil in the village school, apple of his doting mother(Mama Obu)'s eye, eight years old and hopelessly spoilt. In a vain attempt to salvage his character, his father (Papa Mazi Lazarus Maduabuchi) decides he must be sent away as a servant to a schoolmaster with a dragon of a wife. Obu goes and he comes back very different. ||

POINT TO TAKE NOT OFF IN POTTER's WHEEL
The story is all about obuechina*, mazi* is the father of obu and he has seven children*, obu is the 6th child* and he is the only son* of the family, his best friend is oti*, while the eldest of the three friends is samuel* who is referred to as the bully and trickster*. Obu lived with his family in the village of Umuchukwu*. obu came first in the school exam while he was 5 years old.

ogechukwu(obu's immediate sister)* is three years older than obu, but ogechukwu failed. Obu 'wished' he didn't want to go to school at the age of 5*, but his parents refused. (Mazi, obu's father was a cloth dealer* and he was a dancer when he was young. Obu's father also had a bicycle but the first person to have ridden a bicycle in ummuana town* was chief okeke okafor*). Obu was given a red flute* to congratulate him on his success, when obuechina was asked to name anything he wanted and he asked for a goat*, mazi his father said they had one for Christmas already. obu said he wanted to learn how to ride a bicycle* and it was granted unto him, although, he never got to learn it*. obu's mother over pampered him which led him to bed wetting and obu was meant to die at his 9th birthday, as a result of a mark and a stone called ogbanje stone* which was buried and which represent the life of obu. then obu wanted david* to teach him how to ride a bicycle but by that time when he went to david's house, david was sick, so he went to his friend, oti* who had followed his brothers to the river for fishing. Obu was over pampered and his father was not pleased with his mother so his father sent him to a village called Aka*, in mr kanu zaccheus' (a schoolmaster)* place, the man was known to be wicked himself, same as his wife (frequently called 'missus'). on getting there, obu was maltreated by the schoolmaster's wife. later, obu was registered in a school named central school* where he met an osu girl called margret*, osu means outcast*, so obu was classified as impure as a result of the interaction between him and margret.

Monday* was the eldest of the houseboys, he was 19yrs old, after a long while, obu began to play tricks on the teacher as a result of the way he was treated by the teacher's wife, he wrote fake letters to the teacher that his dad needed him at home but the teacher refused them,until his dad sent madu (mazi's friend)* to visit Aka town to check how his son, obuechina was doing. on getting there, he slept over and came back the next day with obuechina whom his mother always calls "onyigbo"*. His mother was so happy that she left what she was doing and welcomed obuchina, then obu has totally changed as a result of the lesson he learnt in Aka town.


GET THE MEANING OF THIS IDIOM AS USED IN THE NOVELS
>> It is because you have not trained him very well that I'm talking about sending him away before he dissolves completely like a bag of salt"

>> " The dog does not eat the bone chained round its neck"

>> 'John whose face knows no laughter"

>> " Vultures will eat your meat as thy ate Jezebel's if you continue answering me without putting Ma"

>> "When the cricket knows the crime is has committed, it dabs whitewash round its eyes.


WHAT YOU SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF
Tips how to get where question may be ask. While reading the novel pick up pen and jotter and jot down
(1) names of major roles
(2)idioms use in d passage.
(3)events that took place that is significant
(4)quotation passage which they will ask e.g quoting a passage and asking u who quote this or who does it refer too
(5)the mood of the writer , dates,places,author autobiography.note potters wheels has 10questions 15marks and sucessor 5questions: more tips till coming.
(6) The Writer's Mood or the Writer's Point of View.

>> Let us help Ourself by Posting any Important Spot of the Novel Here if we have it.
Readers are leaders

The potter's wheel is a novel that takes us to the village called umuchukwu in the eastern part of Nigeria, where one of the basic elements of the local idioms is sayings or proverbs, much like a Bible-based community where people communicate through chapters and verses citations. In the story, even the young ones had riddle and proverb contests to see who knew the most. The story was set about the time of the Second World War (1939-1945). In the story, references are frequently made to the ongoing war, which Nigerians, at that time were part of, through conscription or voluntary involvement.
The story centres on Obu, an eight-year-old boy, who, as the only son with five older sisters and one younger sister, had been badly spoiled by his adoring mother. The mother’s reason for her indulgence towards him was simple; it was the boy’s eventual birth that gave her strong footing in her husband’s house, for the husband’s family had compelled him to take another wife who would give them – the family – a male child. In fact, the five female children that were born before Obu had been given names suggestive of the degree of anxiety and faith, with which Mama Obu and her husband had longed for a male child. The name “Uzoamaka”, given to their first female child, means “The road is excellent”; the second, “Nkiru” means “That which is yet to come is greater”; the third, “Njideka” means “Hold what you have”; the fourth, “Nkechi”, means “Whatever God gives”; and the fifth, “Ogechukwu”, means “God’s time is the best”. Besides that, when Obu arrived, he became a cynosure to the parents, the mother particularly, so much so that apart from his first name “Obuechima”, which means “Compound must not revert to bush”, he was given all sorts of endearment names, such as “Ezenwa”, meaning “infant king”, “Nwokenagu”, meaning “A male child is desirable”, “Oyinbo”, meaning “A companion”, and “Obiano”, meaning “Solace”. No other boy came after Obu, but a girl came two years after his birth, and she was named “Amuche”, meaning “No one knows God’s mind”. All these events depict the superstitious nature of the Ibos; how they weave some stories around everything that happens to them.
Obu’s father, Mazi Lazarus Maduabuchi was a successful cloth dealer. He was a kindly man, but fearing for the boy's future in the hands of his over doting mother, he sent him off to be a servant of a weird, fearsome couple, Teacher Zaccheus Kanu and Madam Deborah Onuekwucha Kanu, both of whom were childless and lived in Aka, a village, some sixty miles away from Umuchukwu. Mama Obu was vehemently opposed to the seemingly suicidal idea of having her treasured son sent to the house of a “wicked man and the witch he has as wife”, even when her husband proverbially reasoned with her that, “He who does not suffer hardship cannot develop any common sense”. In the end however, her resistance, merely verbal, cut no ice, for she was the one, who even later took Obu to the Teacher’s house in Aka, where the boy was to begin a new life as a servant. This event is symbolic of the prevalent mentality of African parents, fathers specifically, who so much believe, against the stifling fondness of mothers, that some degree of hardship and suffering is very essential in the upbringing of a child, if such child is to be useful to him/herself in the future. Also, the subservience and abject obedience of mothers and wives to their husbands was aptly portrayed by Mama Obu, as such slavish compliance, as far as African traditions are concerned, is crucial to the continued survival of a marriage.
Teacher Zaccheus Kanu’s house, a reformatory home of some sort, sheltered an assortment of other youngsters: Silence (who was 14yrs), Moses, Ada (who was 16, and a cousin to Teacher), Mary (who was a spoilt girl, already engaged to a man but was ‘enrolled’ by the fiancé at Madam’s home, for her to undergo some tutelage in domestic and wifely training), Monday (who was 19, and Madam’s cousin), Bright (whom his father gave out to Teacher in exchange for the money the father was owing Teacher), and Obu, the newest arrival. These children were beaten and abused, and were subjected to slavish lives. For instance, apart from the ‘baptism of fire’ slap that Obu got from Madam, Teacher’s wife, on his first day at Teacher’s house, for talking back at the woman, he also, at another time, was served another deafening smack by the ruthless Madam, because of his careless and wasteful attitude of pouring away the excessively salted pottage that she had asked him to prepare for her. The smack sent him sprawling on the ground and made him dizzy for some time. At some other time, Obu was openly embarrassed and beaten so wickedly on the assembly in his school, by the headmaster, who must have been told by Teacher that Obu stole a piece of meat from the pot at home the previous night.
Expectedly, these children, in their various childish ways, devised different acts of vengeance, to get back at their two oppressors – Teacher and Madam. First of all, they all developed strong flair for lying, as they mostly had to lie to escape from the unwarranted harsh punishment they were endlessly subjected to. Besides, Silence, the very tricky fourteen year old boy, would never answer a call by either Teacher or Madam, the first two successive times. He would neglect the call the first two times, with the hope that if he didn’t answer it, his caller would call someone else. He would answer the call only if it came the third time. Bright was another character. Teacher almost always liked to insultingly remind him that he – Bright – was serving him (Teacher), because of his (Bright’s) father’s debt to him. When once, he gave Bright such humiliating reminder, and even attempted to wipe his oil-soiled hand dry on Bright’s head, the boy, “like a drenched dog...” (pg. 133), “…shook his dripping head vigorously…”, and he let drops of the oily water splash on Teacher’s shirt. Ada was yet another character! Exasperated by Madam’s unrepentantly cruel behavior towards her and others in the house, Ada once poured on her Madam “…a bowl of dirty water containing cocoyam peels, discarded ora leaves, and a coating of palm oil from the cooking utensils she had washed in the bowl…” (pg. 186). Even after that mischief, Ada stood unremorseful and ready for the consequences of her actions. As the furious Madam punched and hit and smacked Ada, the girl defensively fended off some of the blows and mockingly took some, unwearyingly. Even the bigger punishment from Teacher, which came much later – scrubbing the school latrine every day for one whole week – meant nothing to the girl. She was happy that she had succeeded in cutting her Madam down to size!
The brutalities that abound in the Aka home provoked nostalgic feelings in Obu about his birth place. He had nostalgia about home, through dreams and reminiscences. He was so home-sick that he thought of what seemed to be a foolproof strategy, which was to write a letter in the guise of his mother, to Teacher. In the short letter which he eventually wrote, in Igbo, his impersonated mother said she wanted Obu to come home, to Umuchukwu, to look after his younger sister. What Obu had thought would work against Teacher was so easily faulted by the crafty Teacher. Teacher was nonetheless stunned by the creativity of the boy (for him to have thought of something as ingenious as impersonating his mother!)
After a year of the hellish life Obu had lived in Aka, his father requested that he be allowed to return home for Christmas, and by the time he returned to Umuchukwu, Obu had become so much transformed into a dutiful, hardworking boy. His return sent everywhere agog! He had shed his old habits – he was no more the loafing, bed-wetting, spoilt Obu! However, happy about his eventual rescue from the tortuous Aka life, Obu never wished to return to Teacher’s house. He asked his mother to help him tell his father about his decision, but the mother, understanding how predictably fruitless such effort of hers would be, urged Obu to speak to his father himself. After some long contemplation as to how to tell his father about his decision not to return to Teacher’s house, he finally broached the topic. His father’s compromising response trivialized Obu’s protracted worry, and he (Obu) wished he had said his mind long before he later did. And after Obu’s father’s seeming compromising response, he later called Obu to sit. With some wise cajolery, the silver-tongued father of Obu succeeded in making the boy see the need for him to return to Teacher’s house.
“…Nobody who does not suffer can succeed in life. Edmund is what he is because his father forgot yams, forgot cocoyams, forgot meat and sent him to suffer in Teacher’s hands. It was Teacher who made him. Teacher tells me your brain is even hotter than Edmund’s. So, there is no reason why you should not drink tea with the white man and study in the white man’s land. But if you want to be like Caleb, you should come and live with your mother, eating goat meat and drinking palm wine and dancing with masquerades. But when the time comes, don’t say that I did not warn you. You can go.”
After this persuasive talk with his father, Obu himself voluntarily returned to Teacher’s house in January (after the Christmas holiday).
The story ultimately centres (thematically) on the challenges of parenthood. With the constant interplay between the vernacular Igbo and the English language, the author enlightens us on many things: The plight of a ‘maleless’ (without a male child) wife or couple in traditional Igbo or Nigerian society; the concept of Ogbanje (or Abiku) children and the societal attitudes to such children; the richness of traditional values as seen in the prevalently mentioned local food (especially the uncommon ones as fried termites, which were here considered as a treat; and the very common one, kola nuts, which are usually served, as etiquette demands, by hosts to visitors.); local names guarded or prompted by some superstition; local proverbs put to various communicative uses; local beliefs and traditions, etc.
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The potter's wheel is a novel that takes us to the village called umuchukwu in the eastern part of Nigeria, where one of the basic elements of the local idioms is sayings or proverbs, much like a Bible-based community where people communicate through chapters and verses citations. In the story, even the young ones had riddle and proverb contests to see who knew the most. The story was set about the time of the Second World War (1939-1945). In the story, references are frequently made to the ongoing war, which Nigerians, at that time were part of, through conscription or voluntary involvement.
The story centres on Obu, an eight-year-old boy, who, as the only son with five older sisters and one younger sister, had been badly spoiled by his adoring mother. The mother’s reason for her indulgence towards him was simple; it was the boy’s eventual birth that gave her strong footing in her husband’s house, for the husband’s family had compelled him to take another wife who would give them – the family – a male child. In fact, the five female children that were born before Obu had been given names suggestive of the degree of anxiety and faith, with which Mama Obu and her husband had longed for a male child. The name “Uzoamaka”, given to their first female child, means “The road is excellent”; the second, “Nkiru” means “That which is yet to come is greater”; the third, “Njideka” means “Hold what you have”; the fourth, “Nkechi”, means “Whatever God gives”; and the fifth, “Ogechukwu”, means “God’s time is the best”. Besides that, when Obu arrived, he became a cynosure to the parents, the mother particularly, so much so that apart from his first name “Obuechima”, which means “Compound must not revert to bush”, he was given all sorts of endearment names, such as “Ezenwa”, meaning “infant king”, “Nwokenagu”, meaning “A male child is desirable”, “Oyinbo”, meaning “A companion”, and “Obiano”, meaning “Solace”. No other boy came after Obu, but a girl came two years after his birth, and she was named “Amuche”, meaning “No one knows God’s mind”. All these events depict the superstitious nature of the Ibos; how they weave some stories around everything that happens to them.
Obu’s father, Mazi Lazarus Maduabuchi was a successful cloth dealer. He was a kindly man, but fearing for the boy's future in the hands of his over doting mother, he sent him off to be a servant of a weird, fearsome couple, Teacher Zaccheus Kanu and Madam Deborah Onuekwucha Kanu, both of whom were childless and lived in Aka, a village, some sixty miles away from Umuchukwu. Mama Obu was vehemently opposed to the seemingly suicidal idea of having her treasured son sent to the house of a “wicked man and the witch he has as wife”, even when her husband proverbially reasoned with her that, “He who does not suffer hardship cannot develop any common sense”. In the end however, her resistance, merely verbal, cut no ice, for she was the one, who even later took Obu to the Teacher’s house in Aka, where the boy was to begin a new life as a servant. This event is symbolic of the prevalent mentality of African parents, fathers specifically, who so much believe, against the stifling fondness of mothers, that some degree of hardship and suffering is very essential in the upbringing of a child, if such child is to be useful to him/herself in the future. Also, the subservience and abject obedience of mothers and wives to their husbands was aptly portrayed by Mama Obu, as such slavish compliance, as far as African traditions are concerned, is crucial to the continued survival of a marriage.
Teacher Zaccheus Kanu’s house, a reformatory home of some sort, sheltered an assortment of other youngsters: Silence (who was 14yrs), Moses, Ada (who was 16, and a cousin to Teacher), Mary (who was a spoilt girl, already engaged to a man but was ‘enrolled’ by the fiancé at Madam’s home, for her to undergo some tutelage in domestic and wifely training), Monday (who was 19, and Madam’s cousin), Bright (whom his father gave out to Teacher in exchange for the money the father was owing Teacher), and Obu, the newest arrival. These children were beaten and abused, and were subjected to slavish lives. For instance, apart from the ‘baptism of fire’ slap that Obu got from Madam, Teacher’s wife, on his first day at Teacher’s house, for talking back at the woman, he also, at another time, was served another deafening smack by the ruthless Madam, because of his careless and wasteful attitude of pouring away the excessively salted pottage that she had asked him to prepare for her. The smack sent him sprawling on the ground and made him dizzy for some time. At some other time, Obu was openly embarrassed and beaten so wickedly on the assembly in his school, by the headmaster, who must have been told by Teacher that Obu stole a piece of meat from the pot at home the previous night.
Expectedly, these children, in their various childish ways, devised different acts of vengeance, to get back at their two oppressors – Teacher and Madam. First of all, they all developed strong flair for lying, as they mostly had to lie to escape from the unwarranted harsh punishment they were endlessly subjected to. Besides, Silence, the very tricky fourteen year old boy, would never answer a call by either Teacher or Madam, the first two successive times. He would neglect the call the first two times, with the hope that if he didn’t answer it, his caller would call someone else. He would answer the call only if it came the third time. Bright was another character. Teacher almost always liked to insultingly remind him that he – Bright – was serving him (Teacher), because of his (Bright’s) father’s debt to him. When once, he gave Bright such humiliating reminder, and even attempted to wipe his oil-soiled hand dry on Bright’s head, the boy, “like a drenched dog...” (pg. 133), “…shook his dripping head vigorously…”, and he let drops of the oily water splash on Teacher’s shirt. Ada was yet another character! Exasperated by Madam’s unrepentantly cruel behavior towards her and others in the house, Ada once poured on her Madam “…a bowl of dirty water containing cocoyam peels, discarded ora leaves, and a coating of palm oil from the cooking utensils she had washed in the bowl…” (pg. 186). Even after that mischief, Ada stood unremorseful and ready for the consequences of her actions. As the furious Madam punched and hit and smacked Ada, the girl defensively fended off some of the blows and mockingly took some, unwearyingly. Even the bigger punishment from Teacher, which came much later – scrubbing the school latrine every day for one whole week – meant nothing to the girl. She was happy that she had succeeded in cutting her Madam down to size!
The brutalities that abound in the Aka home provoked nostalgic feelings in Obu about his birth place. He had nostalgia about home, through dreams and reminiscences. He was so home-sick that he thought of what seemed to be a foolproof strategy, which was to write a letter in the guise of his mother, to Teacher. In the short letter which he eventually wrote, in Igbo, his impersonated mother said she wanted Obu to come home, to Umuchukwu, to look after his younger sister. What Obu had thought would work against Teacher was so easily faulted by the crafty Teacher. Teacher was nonetheless stunned by the creativity of the boy (for him to have thought of something as ingenious as impersonating his mother!)
After a year of the hellish life Obu had lived in Aka, his father requested that he be allowed to return home for Christmas, and by the time he returned to Umuchukwu, Obu had become so much transformed into a dutiful, hardworking boy. His return sent everywhere agog! He had shed his old habits – he was no more the loafing, bed-wetting, spoilt Obu! However, happy about his eventual rescue from the tortuous Aka life, Obu never wished to return to Teacher’s house. He asked his mother to help him tell his father about his decision, but the mother, understanding how predictably fruitless such effort of hers would be, urged Obu to speak to his father himself. After some long contemplation as to how to tell his father about his decision not to return to Teacher’s house, he finally broached the topic. His father’s compromising response trivialized Obu’s protracted worry, and he (Obu) wished he had said his mind long before he later did. And after Obu’s father’s seeming compromising response, he later called Obu to sit. With some wise cajolery, the silver-tongued father of Obu succeeded in making the boy see the need for him to return to Teacher’s house.
“…Nobody who does not suffer can succeed in life. Edmund is what he is because his father forgot yams, forgot cocoyams, forgot meat and sent him to suffer in Teacher’s hands. It was Teacher who made him. Teacher tells me your brain is even hotter than Edmund’s. So, there is no reason why you should not drink tea with the white man and study in the white man’s land. But if you want to be like Caleb, you should come and live with your mother, eating goat meat and drinking palm wine and dancing with masquerades. But when the time comes, don’t say that I did not warn you. You can go.”
After this persuasive talk with his father, Obu himself voluntarily returned to Teacher’s house in January (after the Christmas holiday).
The story ultimately centres (thematically) on the challenges of parenthood. With the constant interplay between the vernacular Igbo and the English language, the author enlightens us on many things: The plight of a ‘maleless’ (without a male child) wife or couple in traditional Igbo or Nigerian society; the concept of Ogbanje (or Abiku) children and the societal attitudes to such children; the richness of traditional values as seen in the prevalently mentioned local food (especially the uncommon ones as fried termites, which were here considered as a treat; and the very common one, kola nuts, which are usually served, as etiquette demands, by hosts to visitors.); local names guarded or prompted by some superstition; local proverbs put to various communicative uses; local beliefs and traditions, etc.
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For those that have been calling.....this is the summary check the previous pages

Bro I don't do dat but d info is a spurious one.....I have not been here but those infos are bogus.....check it out yourself....unilag don't accept 2sittings.....I can't ma number in order to entertain any oppossition like this, UNIILAG DON'T.COLLECT 2SITTINGS AT ALL....I mean no offense but pls authenticity is needed....thanks

Pls nairalanders........let be calm and be wise......stop the info that can affect the choice of others.......allow expert in the game 2 give answers incase u don't know....people like mattew59,yakeeboy, and others but for me I have resume nairaland for the 2013 section call now 4 info or ask ur #question here

Wen n who has check can I get a witness in here

Its finally out......whsh u guys success.tobexin

@all, supp is coming out 4 real, just kip calm and expect the best..........peace..readers are leaders

Oluwacolded: Otokx, u said my name didnt reflect bcus i did change of institution and change of course, but ive checked my score but u said my name didnt reflect, i told u i scored 226 in jamb and 240 in post jamb, applying 4 business management, wat can i do to rectify it or how can you help, pls im really in need of diz,........diz is ma email atm994@yahoo.com or just help me rectify if you can, its a pitiful pity but With God n u i knw its not 2late,asap

@oluwacolded, nothing is in impossible through God and the right source,just kip praying

Zik*zik:
ok boss. Probli i shuld v said HND in accounting in yabatech..cus a frnd advicd that yabatech is well knw 4 accountancy while funaab just startd the course last year..

Zik*zik:
ok boss. Probli i shuld v said HND in accounting in yabatech..cus a frnd advicd that yabatech is well knw 4 accountancy while funaab just startd the course last year..

Zik*zik:
ok boss. Probli i shuld v said HND in accounting in yabatech..cus a frnd advicd that yabatech is well knw 4 accountancy while funaab just startd the course last year..

its up 2u, BSC OR HND, NO MATTER WHAT, A UNIVERSITY CANT BE COMPARE WITH A POLYTECHNIC, NO MATTER HOW WORSE IS IT, SO LONG ITS BSC, BUT IF U HAVE UR PLANS I.E OF GETTING D.E THEN NO P

Zik*zik:
Guys abeg.. Which is better? DEGREE in Funaab or HND in Yabatech.. Urgent rplies pls.

funny you, bce and hnd, guy its up to you, a federal agricultural skul dat mata, broda 4mi decree mata bcus of d discrimination in market or industries nw adays

Ghost freak: am new here nd jst seekin u guys advice. i made unilag list 4 engineerin buh i got d7 in english nd made d oda subjects. any suggestns pls? thnks in anticipation

i cant shout but the truth is if u dont have ur olevel in one sittings, i cn assure you because clearance is another post ume on its own...wish you all the best

@all relax and be hopeful, for those that didnt meet the cut off, God will make a way for you but if you surpass the cut off then you shouldnt be anxious of the list because, it will surely be there...dnt give up, don't give in because God takes pleasure in you..readers are leaders

eduglo: it pains wen u knw d truth and yet you fail to say or live up to it.

@odunno banned me for telling people to visit my website(self made(not joomla))
may b she thought i'm a scam...(think she should have took her time to visit my web www.com.

FYI odunno,i wanted people to use my facilities for free so that i can see my premium subscribers complaint from different angle.

lemme tell you somtin @odunno,u dnt av to b biased in dealing with people before you get notice or get applause.Tobexin,Ajiboye,Matthew and many more do have suspicious post (selling of past questions,asking people to call for admission help etc) yet you do notin to them. All you do is ban those who are scammers.

VNTI supply informations(valid most times) so can't say he is a scammer but can tell you that people benefit from his posts without dealing with him directly.

i can predict your next action..........ODUNNO- banning eduglo is d surest tin . PHEMOUR- i support.....EDUGLO- expecting that 'cos dats the worst thing u can do.BIASED MODERATOR.

i think ure nt in ur right senses, ive i ever scam ur father let alone u, wat a fallacious post, check wat you wrote yaself, that you deduce ur argument from some suspicious statement lyk which one, guy you have no prove, i think youre just making issue complicated, i thought ure such an intelligent fellow not knwing that your argument is BASELESS AND UNREALISTIC, GUESS URE A SCAMMER DAT WAS Y YOUR POT IS CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK.....YOU ARE SO EMPTY, GO HUG TRANSFORMER OR OPEN UR OWN FORUM AND BECOME A STUDILY STUPID FALLICIOUS MODERATOR, ODUNNU IS STILL THE BEST Eduglo OR WAT DAT UR NAITIVE NAME..........dnt get mi wrng im nt saying vnti is a scam but nt trying to justify him to tarnish someone else's image, i have street and world credibility which cant be tarnish by just an ordinary aint lyk you.....confuse fellow, i have spoken and wil neva reply, u knw i have a case of scam with you, till that time, i will reveal u, ure just trying to be gud, ure actually a culprit,...eduglo u have a skeleton in a cupboard pending with mi, learn how to talk and dnt claim you knw scammer when you yourself youre an authentic, i mean AUTHENTIC SCAMMER...NA WA O, VNTI YOU GUYS ARE ON POINT, ITS NORMAL SOME TIMES THERE ARE SOME FLOPSES BUT U GUYS SHOULD JUST BELIEVE THAT THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS COME EITHER TO FAVOUR YOU GUYS OR NOT, I DONT REALLY HAVE ANY ISSUE OR REPORT ABOUT YOU GUYS FROM STUDENT, SO I CANT SUPPORT THE MOTION THAT U GUYS ARE SCAM BUT FOR @EDUGLO I HAVE A PENDING CASE WITH HIM, AFTER THE LIST, IF IT DOESNT WORK, I WILL EXPOSE YOU LIKE NO TOMORROW, Fallacious and suspicious fellow