Nigeria: The NIS Debacle - Harvesting the Dead

27 March 2014

TRAGICALLY, somebody must now die for other members of his family to be offered jobs. The policeman must be cut down by the assassin's bullet for his children to get scholarship to go through their university education.

These are all efforts at harvesting the dead. And in most cases, these scholarships end up at the levels of vain promises. In this age, we wonder which scholarship anyone still requires to go through the basic primary and, to some extent, the secondary school education, when our children are being begged to go to school.

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