Double Life Of Nigerian Students
According to the information gathered by Campus
Sun correspondents, Nigerian students tend to play games pretending to
be virgins at home and in reality live with lovers on campus.
The journalists spoke with numerous young people, who provided shocking confirmations, which will be given later below.
Generally, it turns out that a substantial number of undergraduates live in the world of lies, “where sex is cheaper than a pot of porridge”, as the Sun journalist characterized it.
According to the report a lot of students , especially girls, live for their partners. They wash the man’s clothes, clean the room and cook as if they were married. Single at home, but married on campus, for 4 years.
According to the Sun, cohabitation, or “campus couple”, is a widespread phenomenon concerning those students who live without the consent of their parents. Explaining why they do it, the interviewed people said it allows them to determine their compatibility status, as they get to study themselves before marriage (one of the reasons).
It is believed that only exam period reminds them of the studies, while the rest of the academic year is spent on “family practice”.
Some also cohabit for economic and financial reasons, it was revealed.
David Odia, a student of the Federal Polytechnic Auchi (Auchi Poly), explained:
“It is very romantic to live together as husband and wife, doing things in common, taking collective decision as a family. In fact, the period prepares one for family life. This has helped many undergraduates to discover their spouses to which they are happily married today.”
The journalists spoke with numerous young people, who provided shocking confirmations, which will be given later below.
Generally, it turns out that a substantial number of undergraduates live in the world of lies, “where sex is cheaper than a pot of porridge”, as the Sun journalist characterized it.
According to the report a lot of students , especially girls, live for their partners. They wash the man’s clothes, clean the room and cook as if they were married. Single at home, but married on campus, for 4 years.
According to the Sun, cohabitation, or “campus couple”, is a widespread phenomenon concerning those students who live without the consent of their parents. Explaining why they do it, the interviewed people said it allows them to determine their compatibility status, as they get to study themselves before marriage (one of the reasons).
It is believed that only exam period reminds them of the studies, while the rest of the academic year is spent on “family practice”.
Some also cohabit for economic and financial reasons, it was revealed.
David Odia, a student of the Federal Polytechnic Auchi (Auchi Poly), explained:
“It is very romantic to live together as husband and wife, doing things in common, taking collective decision as a family. In fact, the period prepares one for family life. This has helped many undergraduates to discover their spouses to which they are happily married today.”
Amaka Okoro (real name witheld), narrated she was forced to cohabit being unable to secure accommodation on campus:
“Ever since I came here, I am more or less a mother. I do all the washing, cooking and domestic work. My academic programme is suffering as I find it hard to read my books, which is my primary reason for being in school.I feel bored at times. Whenever my fiancé and I have a quarrel, he abuses and molests me which gives me psychological and health problems.”
She confessed that her parents knew nothing about it. She added that some of her female friends engage in vices like stealing, lying and cybercrimes to raise fund to sustain the relationship.
A student of Medical Physiology, the University of Benin (UNIBEN) told the correspondent:
“The trend is rampant here in Ekosodin. Those that engage in it are the ‘happening’ girls and guys on the campus. The practice is really expensive and as such we respect those that engage in the act. What most UNIBEN students do here is to disguise that they are staying in their fellowship secretariat off-campus, which is not true. When you properly investigate the matter, you will find out that most of them are staying with their boyfriends off-campus. There was the case of a 200 level law student whose father is a politician in Lagos. She was staying with a student-pastor here in Ekosodin. As a result of her affluence, she was always demanding money from her father to sustain the relationship. They later made her the vice president of the campus fellowship. You need to see the way this girl was playing out the role of a wife to the student-pastor and neglecting her studies. Her parents became disturbed and told a relative that stays in the school hostel to find out where she lives. She was exposed and that was how the friendship ended.”
Speaking about another aspect of cohabitation, social worker Rachael Omoregie characterize the students’ behaviour as “sexual immorality” saying that girls’s pregnancy usually makes them drop school. Moreover, Omoregie lamented over abortions, which can be attributed to cohabitation, in her opinion.
“These students are not ready for parenting and can do everything within their powers to flush out pregnancies when they occur.”
Not all young people were FOR such way of living. For example Ese Akpovete, a graduating student of Physics at the Delta State University, Abraka, insisted this practice should stop as sexual breakups are likely to cause the depressive conditions associated with suicide attempts.
Joy Musa, HND 2, Mass Communication, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic (NUBA POLY) Kaduna, stressed the role of parents and explained how they could help their children:
“Parents who toil day and night to see their wards through school should cultivate the habit of paying them unscheduled visit in order to find out what they are doing in school. If students know that their parents would pay them visit without prior notice, they would be restrained in their wild adventure.”
What is your opinion on the issue: cohabitation – evil trend or just the mark of the modern society?
“Ever since I came here, I am more or less a mother. I do all the washing, cooking and domestic work. My academic programme is suffering as I find it hard to read my books, which is my primary reason for being in school.I feel bored at times. Whenever my fiancé and I have a quarrel, he abuses and molests me which gives me psychological and health problems.”
She confessed that her parents knew nothing about it. She added that some of her female friends engage in vices like stealing, lying and cybercrimes to raise fund to sustain the relationship.
A student of Medical Physiology, the University of Benin (UNIBEN) told the correspondent:
“The trend is rampant here in Ekosodin. Those that engage in it are the ‘happening’ girls and guys on the campus. The practice is really expensive and as such we respect those that engage in the act. What most UNIBEN students do here is to disguise that they are staying in their fellowship secretariat off-campus, which is not true. When you properly investigate the matter, you will find out that most of them are staying with their boyfriends off-campus. There was the case of a 200 level law student whose father is a politician in Lagos. She was staying with a student-pastor here in Ekosodin. As a result of her affluence, she was always demanding money from her father to sustain the relationship. They later made her the vice president of the campus fellowship. You need to see the way this girl was playing out the role of a wife to the student-pastor and neglecting her studies. Her parents became disturbed and told a relative that stays in the school hostel to find out where she lives. She was exposed and that was how the friendship ended.”
Speaking about another aspect of cohabitation, social worker Rachael Omoregie characterize the students’ behaviour as “sexual immorality” saying that girls’s pregnancy usually makes them drop school. Moreover, Omoregie lamented over abortions, which can be attributed to cohabitation, in her opinion.
“These students are not ready for parenting and can do everything within their powers to flush out pregnancies when they occur.”
Not all young people were FOR such way of living. For example Ese Akpovete, a graduating student of Physics at the Delta State University, Abraka, insisted this practice should stop as sexual breakups are likely to cause the depressive conditions associated with suicide attempts.
Joy Musa, HND 2, Mass Communication, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic (NUBA POLY) Kaduna, stressed the role of parents and explained how they could help their children:
“Parents who toil day and night to see their wards through school should cultivate the habit of paying them unscheduled visit in order to find out what they are doing in school. If students know that their parents would pay them visit without prior notice, they would be restrained in their wild adventure.”
What is your opinion on the issue: cohabitation – evil trend or just the mark of the modern society?
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