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A day will come in the life of most students when they’ll go and withdraw money and the ATM will read ‘insufficient funds’. That doesn’t have to be your portion.
First of all pack everything you can from your parents’ house whenever you go home.
Toothpaste, toilet roll, detergent, these things are cost in the market.
All those Uncles and Aunties that have been asking you so when will you enter school, call all of them.
I’m in school now o come and fund my life.
If the accomodation situation in your school is flexible don’t form ‘I like my personal space’. Better get yourself a roommate or two.
Anything you are buying for your room will be split between two or three people instead of just you.
Don’t finish your money eating in canteens, buy pots and a hot plate or camp gas and cook.
Do you know how long a pot of beans can last?
If you are in a Nigerian Federal Uni look out for your state’s annual bursary funds.
Some states give as much as 150k, better don’t dull it.
Sit down in your room on Friday nights, it’s not every weekend you must turn up.
Only go where you know the food and drinks will be free, you are still a student, please.
It’s not by force to buy every single book your lecturers say you should buy.
Buy only the most necessary books, if you aren’t sure what to buy ask people who were in that level just before you.
Even the necessary books you still don’t need to buy all of them. Check your school’s libraries for the books they have and just buy the one’s they don’t.
At least if you use in the library you’ll actually read it, instead of leaving it on your table to be gathering dust.
Do you really need to eat more than one meal a day? Especially that week before your pocket money enters your account.
Pata pata you only need to eat two. Uni isn’t the place to be eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Anywhere you see their sharing free food you better enter and collect your own.
All those school talks and seminars where they’ll share food or small chops at the end sign up for all of them. Who are you forming for?
If you have a very high CGPA, first of all congrats. Second all hope you’ve applied for all the scholarships you can find in this Nigeria?
From scholarships sponsored by Shell or Chevron to the ones sponsored by Morning Fresh, apply for all of them.
If you can manage it, start a side hustle. It could be as simple as being a social media influencer or buying sunglasses from Balogun, packaging it and reselling.
Don’t start anything that won’t let you face your books o.
The last one is not for you but for your parents and guardians. Please dears go to class and read your books don’t waste the school fees they are paying.
There are certain life skills you need to survive Uni. You need to know how to lie and cry for when you forget to do your assignment and you’re begging your lecturer. You need to know how to wake up at 8:50 am and still make it to a 9 am class. Most importantly, you need to know how to cook, especially for the days when you need to stretch the last 2k in your account for two weeks. Here are the foodstuffs that will be essential for your survival in a Nigerian university, and eight meals you can prepare using them.
Foodstuff you should have as a Nigerian student
Instant Noodle aka Indomie
Spaghetti
Rice
Garri (Yellow or White)
Bean
Eggs
Plantain
Yam
Sweet Potatoes
Groundnut
Milk
Sugar
Grounded Pepper
Maggi
Salt
Curry
Thyme
8 Meals You Need To Know How To Cook To School In Nigeria
Indomie and everything
Indomie and corned beef, Indomie and sardine, Indomie and egg, Indomie and suya. If you are really skilled you can eat Indomie 7 times a week and it’ll taste new every time
Jollof spaghetti
You know that spaghetti you make with tin tomato onions and one pot. If you are feeling fancy you can add any other senrenre.
Concoction rice
It’s not Jollof, it’s not fried , It’s not coconut rice, no one is sure what it is but we love it like that.
Risky burger
This one doesn’t even require any skill buy your Agege bread and fry egg and combine the two. If you have extra money, add suya to your combo. Don’t forget to use your frying pan to toast the bread.
Eba and anything that resembles soup
It could be just stew, or you could buy 50 naira okra to combine with the stew or if na you dey cook pass you can even make some type of vegetable soup.
Almighty plantain
You can fry it you can boil it you can add beans to it and make plantain pottage.
Garri
There are two types of Garri you can make in Uni. When there’s still money in your pocket you add groundnut sugar and even milk. When there isn’t you have to learn how to make garri meant for one person to swell enough to feed three people.
Ogi/Akanmu/Pap
Please custard, cornflakes or oats is cost, those ones are reserved for the first week you get pocket money from your parents.
Make beans
All you need is one pot, small onions, tin tomato, and Maggi and you can make magic. When you are tired of eating the beans you can boil rice to join or eat it with bread or garri.
Egg stew
The beauty of egg stew is that it goes with anything, rice, bread, plantain, yam, anything.
Breakups on their own are horrible, but can you really claim to have had your heartbroken if you didn’t go through a uni breakup? We asked these ten people how their baes broke up with them in Uni and their responses broke our hearts.
“He told me that I was the reason that he was on a 1.4 G.P.A, so we broke up but he still finished with a third class” – Wande
“We had been supposedly dating for a couple of months, caught him with another babe and he said he didn’t know we were in a relationship” – Mariam
“I caught him cheating and he said it wasn’t his fault that, that’s how they are in his family and if I couldn’t accept that we should break up” – Doyin
“He got someone else pregnant by ‘mistake’” – Hauwa
“I found the Instagram page of his real girlfriend he had been dating for years, I was the side chick. Confronted him and he said I thought I knew” – Amaka
“She told me that her grandma had a dream that we should breakup, I found out months later that the grandma in question had died like ten years ago” – Lanre
“She said she wanted to focus on her studies, she started dating my roommate the week after we broke up” – Femi
“I just stopped hearing from her and seeing her around campus, it was weeks later I found out she had transferred to a school in Canada” – Osas
“He told me that if I really truly loved him deep down I had to let him go, till today I still don’t understand what that means” – Funmi
Ever been through a bad Uni breakup? Share with us let us help you deal with the hurt.
