The life of an undergraduate in Nigerian Universities cannot be written in one article, there are the good times, sickening and the terrible times.
Some universities are student friendly, some makes life difficult for her students and others are just a typical ''good value for your money institution''- you get what you pay for.
It will be unfair to generalize this topic to all universities in Nigeria, so i will be using the phrase ''some universities in Nigeria''
This article covers the issue which everyone tends to shy away from talking about, no one want to discuss it, neither does anyone want to write about the menace of Lecturer student relationship in some Nigerian Universities.
Having experienced and compared the higher education system in Nigeria and oversees, i can authoritatively say that the Education System in Nigeria is a living hell for the average Nigerian Student.
Before i progress into the main issue which is the ugly norm of lecturers sleeping with students for grades, i will like to make it clear that this article is not targeted at any particular person, union or institution.
For easy understanding, i will be splitting this article in 3 categories;
1) Lecturer-Student relationship
2) Lecturer-Colleague relationship
3) Student-Student relationship
The Lecturer to student relationship in some Nigeria universities can be likened to a Boss-messenger relationship in a workplace.
As a student in a Nigerian university you cannot have a meeting with your tutor except he initiates that meeting, you cannot request to have an audience with him, especially if you are male.
You cannot just walk to his office, knock on his door and say ''sir can i talk to you for a minute'' you will either be yelled at, or just succeeded in getting yourself into big trouble.
Well, if your motive for knocking is to remit funds from the sales of hand-outs,text books or money jointly collected for course ''blocking'' you are highly welcome!
You should have had a close relationship with the lecturer before been entrusted with such duties anyway!
Some categories of students are allowed into their tutors office without hitch- some highly intelligent ones that are needed by the lecturers, the class rep who sometimes run the hand-out and blocking scheme, and of course the girls!, the pretty girls who gets high grades in exchange for their bodies.
Some Lecturers even go as far as having the girls pay for the hotel room where they do their dirty deeds.
It is not a rumor in some universities, the lecturers ''do the do'' in their offices, they either wait for the day to get dark and their colleagues leaves for their respective homes or just close the door and stop office activities for that day.
Often times Lecturers sneaks into the parking lot of the hall of residence to pick up girls, transport them to various locations and at the end, it's an A or B for his course that semester.
A minute percent of the Lecturers actually take few of the girl as a temporary ''bed warmer'' for the semester and sometimes the whole year till a fresh new jam-bite catches his eye.
And does all the girls approached by lecturers succumb to sleep with them for grades? Hell No!
Some would rather do dirty outside campus and buy the grade from him, an A or B grade could cost between N5,000 to N10,000 as at 2011 depending on the course and the lecturer , That should have increased by now.
Other set of girls who do not do dirty still pay the money anyway, maybe funds sent from brothers/sisters oversees, given by rich parents e.t.c
An there are those girls who just want to be known to be the professor's bed warmer, they see it as being the real deal.
You can earn money being a Lecturer's girlfriend; You always have access to the mark-sheet, you adjust it accordingly while fellow students pay you hefty for adjusting their grades.
And yes, some lecturers would still sleep with a girl and fail in his ''good grade promise'' .
There are the other girls who keeps their dignity, would never open their legs for grades neither do they have the financial muscle to buy the grade, they FAIL.
There is a particular ''fact'' story of a girl who got an extra year in an
He took her a core course, she failed and did not graduate that year, the extra year he did the same thing to her because he was then promoted to the post of an HOD.
Finally, the University let her go with a PASS! they didn't even manage to give her a 3rd class.
She is late now.
I will be discussing the Lecturer-Colleague and The Student-Student relationship in subsequent articles, and also be revealing the circumstances that led to a certain death, and how a catholic reverend father slept with/wanted to sleep with a particular student.
This post is dedicated to my friend, Josephine M of blessed memory.
SLEEP WELL GIRLFRIEND! ADIEU...
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