Julius Ipoola's Poetry Blog: Aspiring To Go To School-JAMBite Realities

Julius Ipoola's Poetry Blog: Aspiring To Go To School-JAMBite Realities: I have a great and worthwhile aspiration To have a claim of higher education I wish I could just claim my ambition But I am always faced ...

ASPIRING TO GO TO SCHOOL 'JAMBITE' REALITIES.

It has become a serious dilemma in Nigeria for aspiring young school leavers to get admission into higher institutions in the country. The number of aspiring students is growing year by year and the space is tight and small.

To get admission into higher institutions, aspiring students must pass the JAMB (Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board) examination. Passing JAMB is not even the only criteria, the students will face another examination set by individual institutions known as Post UTME examinations. Aspiring students are expected to cross these two hurdles before having a gleam of hope of getting an admission to institution of higher learning in Nigeria nowadays.

It has been observed that passing these two examinations may not totally guarantee admission as there are so many candidates seeking admission. While wouldn't this be so, when in a particular year over 1.6million candidates were seeking admission for a space of half a million in Nigeria's institutions of higher learning? The private institutions available are equally very costly for the average family to send their children. It is indeed a dilemma for aspiring young school leavers in Nigeria today.      

 ASPIRING TO GO TO SCHOOL 'JAMBITE' REALITIES.

I have a great and worthwhile aspiration
To have a claim of higher education
I wish I could just claim my ambition
But I am always faced with frustration.

I must pass through the road of JAMB
And I have to read to pass with a lamp
Since power holding is holding up the light
Especially in the time of the night.

I hear after crossing the road of JAMB,
My school will set another trap
To scrutinize my aspiration again to school
Please I don't want to go the way of a fool.

Education will not make me a fool
Please I am aspiring to go to school
Kindly reduce this tensions on this road
So that my hope and aspirations will be realized.

With education, my road to wealth will be brighter
With learning my hope for achievement is higher
With understanding our aspirations for our nation is greater
But the road to school is getting tougher and tougher.