##MADNESS IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES##

Hi guys this is a story you wouldn't want to miss

for anything. Sit back and enjoy.

Funsho was a boy who lived with his mother

in a two bedroom flat apartment in Rivers State,

his father was late. He was a 300l student of

Theatre Art,Madonna University.

On this faithful day his school was celebrating

rag day. If you schooled in Nigeria you know

what that day is all about.

He got home and opened the door with his

keys with one of his hands, while the second

hand was holding the big Milo can he used in

collecting money. He dropped the things in the

sitting room and went straight to the kitchen

because he was extremely hungry after the long

and stressful exercise.

He opened the pot on the gas cooker and saw

"Efor riro"(vegetable soup),he looked into the

cooler by the side of the cupboard and found

pounded yam there. The food was still hot,

because the mum prepared it not too long

before going out.

Normally he and his mum eats lunch together

but because of the way the worms in his

stomach were behaving he had to eat alone. He

took some soup and the biggest wrap of

pounded yam in the cooler. Before Jack

Robinson could be said he had leveled the

mountain before him..

He washed the plates and put them in the rack

and went to the sitting room to finish his

business. He emptied the Milo can on the floor

and started straightening out the notes as well

as wondering why some people still use coins.

The money was a total of five hundred and thirty

five naira (fifteen naira were coins) ..Not bad he

thought to himself. Due to the rate of tiredness

and heavy meal he consumed he didn't know

when he dozed off ..

The mother was rushing to get home

knowing fully well that her son would be back

and waiting for her for them to eat lunch

together. She opened the door with her keys

and the first sight she encountered made her to

start crying and screaming outside

" Ara adugbo e gbam mi o" (Neighbours

please come to my rescue o)

Some group of her neighbours sitting outside

their own flat started asking her what the

problem is. And she said

"Awon tin won sa tele me ti mu omo mi oo"

(Those running after me have gotten hold

of my son).

The man couldn't get what she was saying so

the second man interpreted for him. By this time

her neighbours were coming out in their

numbers.

"my pikin don dey mad oo" she said

"mad ke, Oya make we go see am". Nobody

moved the man repeated, "make we go see the

pikin wen dey mad". Then the women asked him

to take the lead.. He and the second man

decided to go see for themselves while the

women were consoling Iya Funsho.

Getting to Iya Funsho's flat they met Funsho

sleeping like a baby peacefully on the floor.

Wearing torn tee shirt which was previously

white, Jeans trousers of which one leg was

rolled up to his knees and the other was down,

two new white socks were worn on both legs,

two different types of sneakers andcolour(green

and red), his face was painted with makeup

which looked like the job of a child playing with

crayons.

The men were scared to go closer, they

found a mopping stick by the side of the wall

and used it to touch him calling his name.

"Funsho,Wake up " He woke up and was

surprised to see his neighbours in their flat.

"Your mama say you don dey mad na true? "

One of the men asked.

"Me mad ke? How come? " Funsho said

The man replied "I nor know oooooo na wetin

your mama tell us".

Funsho started laughing making the men to

be scared the more. He heard the mother crying

and people talking outside,so he stood up and

the Two men flee outside. When the people

outside saw the two men running out they flee

to different corners of the compound and hid

themselves.

"Ah ah Funsho ta ni mo se"(Funsho who

have i wronged?).

"maami, mi o ya were"(mother I'm not

mad) . "Maami, e dide n'le, mo ni mi ya were"

(mother stand up from the floor i said I'm not

mad)..He started removing the torn cloth, used

it to clean his face. He dropped the trouser

down. The mother was just looking at him, the

neighbours started coming out of their holes

one after the other.

"Rag day la n se ni school "(it's rag day we are

doing in school ) Funsho said.

"Rag day? Ni won wa ni pe ke Mura bii were?"

(rag day? And they asked you to dress like a Mad

person?) the mother asked.

"MI o ya were, maami".(mother i am not mad)..

The mother was relieved, she stood up from

the floor checked him from left to right, back

and front like a commodity that is to be

purchased all of a sudden she started

announcing

"omo mi o ya were, Jesu o se o"(my son is

not mad, all thanks to Jesus).. She started

dancing to an imaginary tune..

The neighbours were murmuring beneath their

breath "which one be rag day again? All these

children no go kill person. Yesterday them say

na old school day today na another one they

carry come, Rag day.. Who rag day don help??