Empowering Students, Shaping Futures
Adaobi had a rule she kept for the first two years of her university life: she would not ask her mother for money more than once a month. It was not a rule anyone had given her. It was one she had given herself, quietly, after the night she had called home in her first … Read more
Chisom almost bought the wrong laptop twice. She was a freshly admitted 100-level Computer Science student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and her uncle — a kind man who worked in a Lagos trading company and had offered to buy her a laptop as a going-to-university gift — had taken her to Computer Village … Read more
Tunde had never really thought about money until the day he ran out of it completely. He was a 200-level Business Administration student at the University of Lagos — which, if you think about it, makes the story even more painful. A student studying Business Administration, in a faculty that teaches financial management and organisational … Read more
For three weeks after the results came out, Ifeanyi told his mother everything was fine. He was a 300-level Economics student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and he had failed three courses — ECO 301, ECO 305, and STA 301 — two of them core courses that his department required for graduation. He had … Read more
The first time Emeka heard about the Shell Nigeria Scholarship, he laughed. Not because it was funny — but because he did not believe it was real. He was a 200-level Petroleum Engineering student at the University of Port Harcourt, and someone in his department’s WhatsApp group had posted a flyer with the Shell logo … Read more
Fatima had never told anyone how close she came to dropping out in her second year. She was studying Computer Science at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria — a brilliant student, consistently among the top five in her department, the kind of person her lecturers pointed to when they wanted to show younger students what dedication … Read more
How To Write A Formal Complaint Letter In A Nigerian University — With Samples Blessing had been trying to resolve the problem for six weeks before she finally accepted that being nice about it was not working. She was a 200-level Nursing Science student at the University of Port Harcourt, and at the beginning of … Read more
The day Chukwuemeka got his result printout from the examination officer’s office, he stood outside the faculty building for a long time without moving. He was a 300-level student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Benin, and the sheet in his hand told him he had failed two courses — MEE … Read more
Ngozi had been staring at her laptop screen for three days straight. She was a 400-level Mass Communication student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and her project supervisor — a stern, bespectacled man who had been lecturing since before she was born — had returned her draft with exactly four words written in red … Read more
1. Introduction: The Student Who Almost Missed His Chance Wisdom was a 300-level Mechanical Engineering student at Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi. When his department announced that SIWES registration was opening, he assumed — like many of his coursemates — that the school would simply “place” him somewhere, the way primary and secondary schools sometimes … Read more