Tales Of A Naija Student
Alice Ogar The first day I stepped in as a fresher on this campus, I was thrilled. I was also a tired young man. You see, when I wrote UTME in 2020, I barely had a strand of beard. I remember my big sis teasing me about being a small beardless boy when I bragged and daydreamed about Uni. She told me to rest the night she caught me feeling myself yet again in the mirror. As usual, I had my signature wide grin plastered on my face. I’d then rub my beardless chin over and over again before grabbing the rosary on my neck to kiss the cross in excitement. I’d been doing that ‘nansense’ since I saw my results. Man, they were amazing! “Happening bobo, you better goan rest o!” She’d exclaimed with a laugh. Well, COVID struck three days later. But it took me four hopeless and tiring months of lockdown, stay-at-home and mom’s obsession with sanitizers, to realize I really needed her advice. I rested. Yes, I flung my books aside and took to the craze of “MAKE MONEY ONLINE FROM THE COMFORT ...