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Student @ Adekunle Ajasin University of Akungba, Akoko
THE MOINMOIN SELLER WITH MY DEGREE
<p>It’s strange, really—how all my life, going to school felt like the ultimate dream. Growing up, I believed education was the key to unlocking everything I ever wanted. It was the goal, the prize, the one thing I was sure would shape my future. But now, standing at the edge of graduation, I find myself filled with questions I never thought I’d ask.</p><p><br/></p><p>This week was FYB week—Final Year Brethren week—in my school. Everywhere I turned, people were celebrating, taking pictures, making plans, laughing like life was already sorted. Everyone looked happy. Everyone looked sure. But deep down, I wasn’t celebrating. I was thinking. Thinking hard. Wondering what happens after all this.</p><p><br/></p><p>Does education truly guarantee success? Does holding a degree still open doors the way we were taught to believe?</p><p><br/></p><p>I got my answer—or maybe more confusion—a few days ago when I stopped to buy moinmoin from a roadside woman. She looked ordinary, like any other food seller, until she started sharing her story. She studied the exact same course I did. Same four walls, same lectures, same struggles. Yet there she was, selling food in the hot sun just to survive.</p><p><br/></p><p>I stood there holding my moinmoin, listening to her, and my heart sank. After seven years of enduring the endless cycle of ASUU strikes, nights when hunger kept me awake, days when sleep was a luxury because I needed to read to avoid another extra year—after all that suffering… this was her reality? Her degree now reduced to a paper gathering dust at home?</p><p><br/></p><p>And as if life wanted to drive the message deeper, I came across a news headline just days later: thousands of lawyers had just been called to bar. It was meant to be a proud moment, but one influencer’s comment struck me hard. He said many of those newly-called lawyers would never use their certificates to work as lawyers. Instead, many would end up as content creators, bakers, makeup artists, even tailors. His words were blunt and honest: “Na this lawless country una wan control?”</p><p><br/></p><p>At that moment, I understood the harsh reality.</p><p><br/></p><p>So now I’m left asking myself the question no one prepared me for: after all this hustle, after all this sacrifice… what next?</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>
THE MOINMOIN SELLER WITH MY DEGREE
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