Hi guys, my name is Caleb Ezubuike. A young Nigerian and a University lecturer,I have a story to tell and I really would want you guys to learn something from it. Life is all about lessons and I wish to use my life story to send some messages across.
This is my story>>
Most African University graduates do dream of becoming lecturers. We all know about the bright future of lecturers, the respect they control and the wealth that followed them. Yea being a lecturer gives one the opportunity to get to the very top if he's serious about it. As a lecturer you have to clear a path towards becoming a professor and it's now left for you to work towards making it happen.
I was opportuned to travel to Canada for my Master's degree, immediately after my NYSC in 2006. I returned to Nigeria two years later and quickly married a family friend's daughter whose father was Dean of Education faculty in the university that employed me two months after my wedding. I had my life well planned out. I already knew what to do and what not to doin achieving my goals.
My parents were equally supportive and moderately wealthy. They supported me in everything.Being the last child in the family of two girls,I was overly pampered by my parents and siblings, even after my marriage to Jessica who equally was a nurse in the state General Hospital.
I soon started work as a lecturer with a very strong spirit towards correcting all the wrongs in the University system.I swore to stand staight in my deaings with students. I swore never to compromise my dignity and be a good man respected by everyone but unfortunately it was easier said then done
Being a good lecturer opened my eyes to the realities on ground.Politics and corruption was already well embended in the University system that you ever join in or look the other way. I was young and ambitious. The options before me was simply unimaginable.
hmmm, well at first I was forced to look the other way and face my classroom work,which I did with great zeal.
I handled Bio 101,102,201,202,301,354 and 402. It really wasn't easy for me at all and to worsen my situation,some of the senior lecturers I shared the courses with,left everything for me to handle alone and the number of students offering the courses were quite enormous.
But that wasn't the major problem. As soon as the first exam I was supposed to participate as a lecturer arrived,more temptations poured in..
The first temptation was from a final year student called Comfort. She was the first to tempt me.
How did it all happen??
To be continued shortly...
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