Hall Of Mercy or NYSC Camp?

Hey y’all…

Lemme get this straight first of all, what’s with the insistence of lemon green and orange for NYSC colours? Orange? Couldn’t they find something better?

Well that was what Futoites were treated to on Monday and Tuesday, as the voters registration volunteer thingy was going on at the Hall of Mercy. It was a sea of corps members, all milling around the place like students waiting for a joint lecture. And it was really funny seeing them bolt into both Halls when the “invigilators” (lol!) were ready for them. And not to sound degrading, but all this rush for what? A couple of ten thousand bucks? Oh well….over to you, Jonathan.

Apparently, from the official school calendar, we ought to be in our fourth week of lectures, and some departments have actually started lectures. So beware, cos the word on the street is that attendance is being taken seriously in order to drive all y’all holidayers out of home and back to where you belong. It’ll be interesting to see how the calendar pans out considering the fact that we have a couple of breaks and that little spot o’ bother called election sometime in April. Will we be too fast and finish before then? Or will they take us for a joyride and ask us to come back after the elections (when our brains have obviously lost their lustre) for exams? Trust Futo na, lol.

Ok, let’s face off campus. Could someone please tell the owners of shops in Ihiagwa and Umuchima that they do not have to wait until somebody dies before they decide to open up for the new year? Everywhere is still closed and this is the 11th day of the new year! Haba! And what’s with particular kinds of food stuff being scarce? Onions are hyper expensive and you can’t even find the rest. Imagine I went out today and searched the whole of Ihiagwa market square but I couldn’t find an egg to buy. Really!

And then it looks like Landlords are really outdoing themselves to get new customers for the new year. Old lodges are wearing new looks, like Solutions lodge which has a new coat of paint, and Phagdan Hostel, whose name has even been changed to Access Lodge (hope I’m correct?). And since Umuchima has been pitied finally and electricity has been restored, it looks like it may just have been saved from the mass exodus that was planned by the student population earlier. That is depending on if most haven’t left already. It’d be a big shame to see thriving lodge businesses go under, but the electricity issue is really something that ought to have been fixed a long time ago. So I guess they’ll just have to deal with it.

So, anything I’m missing? Hmm if there is it’ll have to wait till tomorrow. I got a 10am lecture and this final year ain’t beans. In fact it’s my new year resolution not to miss any of my lectures. Oops! Missed one yesterday! Oh well…

Later peepz!