A Sad News.

For a few days now, I've not been feeling too well. As a result of that, I was admitted to the hospital. I collected a few drips and injections. I feel very better now. I got to the hospital on Monday and I left there on Wednesday. I feel good now!!!. Glory be to God. On getting home on Wednesday, I got a message from my school group chat. We have a group chat where we all can reach ourselves and I'm so glad that the group chat is functioning even after we have graduated. The messages kept coming in and I decided to check out what they were talking about.

We were told to come to school on Friday which is yesterday. They said we had issues with our results and we should come around to talk about it. Honestly, I was scared but my mind was at rest since it was a general issue. I would have been more scared If it was happening to me alone.

My friends and I began to wonder what it could be. We thought of different things that could have happened but we had to put our minds to rest since we have been asked to come to school on Friday. Our lecturers were added to our group chat and they told every one of us to be in school on Friday by noon. A lot of us are not in Lagos so most of us traveled down to Lagos just to know what's up with our results.

I got there late due to traffic. Who has been held in Lagos traffic? If you have been, please raise your hands. I spent three hours in traffic. That's crazy!!. The traffic made me very tired and that's why I didn't write any article yesterday. The meeting started immediately after I got there. One of my female lecturers addressed us. She began with proverbs and whenever an African person starts talking with proverbs, there likely is a problem.

The proverbs were getting too much for us all to handle. We were eager to know what was going on so we asked her to go straight to the point. I graduated from the University in February. Our results were taken to our Alma Mater which is the University of Ibadan but the results were not released as fast as they should be due to the strike. Every federal University in Nigeria is on strike. It's been since February too. They're still on strike but we were lucky that they attended to us. They checked all our results and checked the list of courses we did and told us that there was a problem.

They told us that our list of courses is not complete. How is it not complete? We did all the courses we were supposed to do and now they are telling us that our list of courses is not complete. So what other course should we have done? We brought out our handbook to show them the list of courses that we were told to do. To my greatest surprise, they brought out their handbook and it was different from ours.

Now let me tell you where the problem set in. They changed the syllabus when we got to our final year at the University. The syllabus state that two more courses should be added to our courses. One is the philosophy of logic while the second one is French. I think the University of Ibadan didn't update us about the changes or we didn't even bother to ask maybe because it was not like that before. We asked what the solution is and we were told that we have to write the exam. It's crazy!!!

We will be given four weeks of lectures and we will write the exam after the classes. A lot of us complained because we have moved on with our lives. Some of us are working already so it's not easy to come back for lectures. At the end of the day, we all agreed to be having virtual classes and when it is time for the exam, we will go to school to write it.

It's so disheartening because we may not be able to go for service this year. It may be till next year. Who knows? I don't like the fact that they draw us back. It's sad but there's nothing we can do.