BE WARY OF FRIENDS

 I know most of you don't know I briefly attended Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri in 2012, although I only did all my registrations and paid my fees. I didn't continue because Federal Polytechnic, Nekede Owerri had offered me admission to study Mass Communication in the faculty of Social and Management Sciences. 

Prior to this time, I thought it was a normal admission because my friend as at then helped me in securing the admission after paying 40,000naira. She was a student in the same school and she told me I needed to also work the admission while waiting for the school to release the admission list because according to her, Federal Polytechnic Nekede grants admission to those who worked (I know you understand what I mean)  their admission first before considering others (all lies).

As naive and desperate as I was then, I believed her lies and paid the money into her account. After waiting for some months, she called and told me that my name was out. You all know that as at 2012, most tertiary institutions pasted their admission lists on notice boards and Federal Polytechnic Nekede was not left out. 

I informed my parents that I had gotten admission into Federal Polytechnic Nekede and they suggested I forfeit that of Alvan Ikoku College of Education and go for  Federal Polytechnic Nekede. Meanwhile, unknown to me, my name was not even out to begin with - my friend had scammed me. I knew she scammed me because when I got to Nekede, I asked her to take me to where my name was pasted, she did but I did not see my name. She then told me they had torn out where my name appeared; can you just imagine? I know you must be wondering how I got to know she scammed me. Well, she confessed. 

I cried like my world had come to an end. Where do I start from? How do I begin to tell my parents that the admission was fake? What about friends I had already told I was going to school? All these were the thoughts running through my head. Well, the admission clicked afterward but not through her this time.

 So while I was in school, I was not fulfilled. I wanted more. I wanted a University and not a Polytechnic, then I bought another jamb form but I did not sit for it because my roommates discouraged me. According to them, there was no need to 'stress' myself since I was already in a Higher Institution. It did not matter if it was a Polytechnic or a University, so I left it.

In my NDII, I decided to live alone. I bought yet again another Jamb form, but this time, I didn't tell anybody because I did not want any discouragement from anybody again. I finally wrote the JAMB, passed. Wrote Post UTME, passed, and lo and behold, when the admission list came out, my name was on the Merit list to study Educational Psychology, Guidance and Counselling from the University of Port Harcourt.

MORAL

1. Do you and listen to that inner voice. I listened and didn't give up. Here I am with a FIRST CLASS HONOURS.

2. Most times, friends tend to discourage you from achieving your set goal because they don't want you ahead of them.

3. Do not tell your friend everything happening in your life. Some friends are enemies in disguise - frenemies!

Thank you for reading. 

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