HAPPY
MATRICULATON
EWU JAMBITO! EWU JAMBITO! EWU JAMBITO! I jolted out of my bed I room in the
university campus; it was a hubbub of noise from the fresh students, I was
among the fresher, elated that I happened to be among this first year boys of
my institution, it was just last year but it feels like it was yesterday, how
time flies. Ewu Jambito in other words
means Jamb goat
That morning, January 2013, I done in my reserved-for-special-day
shirt, and my oversized matriculation gown, immediately I stepped out of my
room, a rapturous noise blanketed me.
Filing out with my buddies felt like am in a very sumptuous universe, we
went to the Margret Ekpo convocation arena for our matriculation induction, and
we were all given a New Testament pocket bible. It been over 3 years I held a
bible and I felt I had found my lost glory, we sonorously sang the university
of Nigeria anthem, listened to the sermon, waited for item seven but it never came, albeit we never cared all we wanted
is to go on with the after-orientation events, among which are: taking pictures
with friends, wining and dining and also making sure the whole perimeters of
the school perceive our cologne.
On this day, friends and enemies wear different kind
of faces, the new matriculants are also happy for different reasons that you
can never observe with your senses, for instance I was happy ‘cause it is like
walking on a new path, for others it was because at last they are now
recognized as a student of a university, to some it was because they assume and
believe they are first class student going by the virtue of their CGPA-5.0.
I wish all the whole Jambitos a happy matriculation exercise and I pray you all to be an
example of what Nigeria is yearning for- good leader, messiah, transparent,
human right respecter; you can be all this
only if you walk on it, the world is waiting for you.
Ejioffor Ikechukwu
Year Two
Public Administration
