You forcefully open the double doors to your room to see your reflection in the large spotless mirror staring at you, as you try to avoid the Master. Your image kills the mustard seed of hope you have been trying to nurture – your eyes exhausted from too many tears. Your lips are chapped, and the glory of your skin is in the past - your beautiful skin as your mother would remark. You wonder if it’s because of its fairness or the hairless sight of it, or the chubby feeling when touched. And then you reckon the eyes of your mother are not yours. Your beauty lies in your freedom, you think to yourself. You affirm that you don’t belong here, not in this castle with grey walls, lofty ceilings, and heavy brown curtains. Not viewing ancient paintings of wars. Not on a bed for a crowd and certainly not wearing these expensive clothes too pure to smear. You recall the first day of your arrival at your new home. You were greeted by a servant who avoided your eyes as he bowed his head and sai...
WORK EXPERIENCE

Now the places where the government can invest is somewhere like
health and education. In developed countries the government strictly takes
responsibility for these things. Like the health sector in the UK is absolutely
free and they make sure that they employ enough doctors. They have a quality
control system even for hospitals that makes sure hospitals deliver enough by
employing more staff. This means day in day out, there are job opportunities
over there that even their own citizens cannot fill in so foreigners rush in to
take these jobs. Now that is government taking responsibility. In their
education system they are looking for people who will train to become teaching
assistants because they don’t joke with the standard of their education. Here
in Nigeria, most people attended private schools - primary and secondary. It is
at the tertiary level that you see most people attending federal and state schools and if you think about it the private institutions are gradually taking
over now. So everything still boils down to the government and the people
realizing that the government has nothing planned for them even as students so
they can start planning for themselves… That’s the way I see it.
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