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Student @ Adekunle Ajasin University,Akungba Akoko Ondo State.Nigeria.
Lagos, Nigeria
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Àkùngbá Ìgbẹ́yìn
<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Àkùngbá Ìgbẹ́yìn…....</p><p><br/></p><p>Freshers hear the name from the very first week.</p><p>Staylites laugh when they say it.</p><p><br/></p><p>"Just wait till Àkùngbá Ìgbẹ́yìn reach."</p><p>"Na that time you go understand."</p><p><br/></p><p>We used to laugh too.😂</p><p>We thought it was just another campus joke,🥺</p><p>Another exaggerated student story.</p><p><br/></p><p>But no one explains it fully.</p><p>Because Àkùngbá Ìgbẹ́yìn</p><p>Is something you must experience.</p><p><br/></p><p>Weeks before examination,</p><p>The sun suddenly feels hotter.</p><p>Books grow heavier in your hands.</p><p>And pockets grow frighteningly lighter.</p><p><br/></p><p>That is when life begins to show its real colour.😭</p><p><br/></p><p>Every student becomes a mathematician —</p><p>Not solving calculus,</p><p>But calculating food survival.🤧</p><p><br/></p><p>“How many spoons today?”</p><p>“How many days till exam?”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Two spoons today…</p><p>Maybe tomorrow we go manage one.”</p><p><br/></p><p>Soup becomes treasure.</p><p>Rice becomes festival food.</p><p>Noodles becomes luxury</p><p>You greet from a distance.</p><p><br/></p><p>Wallets are empty.</p><p>Bank alerts are silent.</p><p>Everyone is broke in the same language.</p><p><br/></p><p>No one is really asking</p><p>“How are you?”</p><p><br/></p><p>Because everybody already knows the answer.</p><p><br/></p><p>Still, in this dry season of student life,</p><p>Two heroes always rise.</p><p><br/></p><p>Poks — breadbuns,</p><p>Faithful soldiers of survival.</p><p>Morning hope.</p><p>Evening comfort.</p><p>No long cooking.</p><p>No complicated preparation.</p><p>Just eat and keep reading.</p><p><br/></p><p>And then Garium — humble cassava flakes,</p><p>The loyal friend of the struggling scholar.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just add water.</p><p>Sugar if luck smiles.</p><p>Groundnut if heaven remembers you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Together they whisper softly:</p><p><br/></p><p>"You will not faint today."</p><p><br/></p><p>Because in Àkùngbá,</p><p>Exams are not the only battle.</p><p><br/></p><p>Students are fighting</p><p>Hunger,</p><p>Stress,</p><p>Sleepless nights,</p><p>And the quiet fear of failure.</p><p><br/></p><p>That is when the seniors’ words finally return:</p><p><br/></p><p>"You go understand Àkùngbá Ìgbẹ́yìn."</p><p><br/></p><p>And suddenly…</p><p>You understand.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because you are now part of the story.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet somehow,</p><p>Even when Àkùngbá Endtime nearly kpai us,</p><p>We still keep grinding.</p><p><br/></p><p>We read.</p><p>We push.</p><p>We survive.</p><p><br/></p><p>And one day,</p><p>We too become the seniors.😂</p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Preaching the gospel to the next set of freshers:</span></p><p><br/></p><p>"Just wait…</p><p>When Àkùngbá Ìgbẹ́yìn reach,</p><p>You go understand."</p><p><br/></p><p>NOTE; A very big shoutout to students of Adekunle Ajasin University. Akungba Akoko,Ondo State.........Despite the pressure of Àkùngbá Ìgbéyìn(end time),we never withdraw, we keep on grinding and hoping that all will be fine one day.</p>
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