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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Pk01(m): 9:24am On Sep 17, 2021
Disturb:
Was I ever broke?
Damn I was always broke...my uncle who was to see me through school became lackadaisical about my education because I refused repeating a level in vet medicine & changed to biology..saying Biology was a useless course
Sometimes I would resume school with nothing... I remember cooking rice most times with just Maggi and salt... Eating just only bread a day and sleeping till the next day... I became so emaciated till the point my course mates noticed and started begging me to eat to stay alive..
Big ups to V.... (Nigga squated me in hostel 100L,200L and final year)
Tho I was emotionally abused and sturvs that made me leave home... I still appreciate my Mom...thst woman came through for me in every little way, if not na hunger for kill me
She'll package Yam and grinded pap and other food stuffs and send to me all the way from village

Going through that school broke wasn't easy...I couldn't afford my final year school fees self... I was supposed to have an extra year but God came through for me.. I'm seeing my name on graduation list... Don't still know her
I'm thinking it's a mistake... I pray they don't remember before I go to serve... Still owing that school truck load of money... About 60k in all

Don't ever attempt schooling in 9ja if you no get sponsor or truck load of cash
if someone hasn't pay school fees will he be allow to write exams?... I read stories here men is not easy currently in 300l... Hustle+studying maths and Stat... Isn't that a suicide mission?..

May be, Na to drop out, as I heard you can't defer a semester without paying your school fees.. How true is this... I can't afford the fees due to the increments in fees by state universities..
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Jagri: 9:24am On Sep 17, 2021
Starlight25:
I think i will change that "were you broke" to "are you broke"
The way sapa is playing drums for me right now ehn, it's so depressing. I have a practical examination today and tommorrow that i've not even paid for. Hunger dey one side while tfare to even go school na wahala...
Test na next week the one wey follow na exam yet na N4.00 my account dey read...
Ko easy o...
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by michresakidjo(m): 9:26am On Sep 17, 2021
Ayoslimzy:
you even get gf….

Yeah... She's really done her very best for a broke nigarr!!!
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Tijani009: 9:26am On Sep 17, 2021
lopjohnny:


Yea actually. That would have been a nice thing to do, but I doubt it's possibility in this country.

first question, the work day? second all those employers when go want make you work 12hr
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Jagri: 9:27am On Sep 17, 2021
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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Pk01(m): 9:27am On Sep 17, 2021
michresakidjo:


Yeah... She's really done her very best for a broke nigarr!!!
if someone hasn't pay school fees will he be allow to write exams?... I read stories here men is not easy currently in 300l... Hustle+studying maths and Stat... Isn't that a suicide mission?..

May be, Na to drop out, as I heard you can't defer a semester without paying your school fees.. How true is this... I can't afford the fees due to the increments in fees by state universities..
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Matheusmartin: 9:29am On Sep 17, 2021
stanluiz:
That stress no be here oooh!!

It combines both physical and mental stress.
.
Nor be small thing my brother.
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by michresakidjo(m): 9:32am On Sep 17, 2021
Pk01:

if someone hasn't pay school fees will he be allow to write exams?... I read stories here men is not easy currently in 300l... Hustle+studying maths and Stat... Isn't that a suicide mission?..

May be, Na to drop out, as I heard you can't defer a semester without paying your school fees.. How true is this... I can't afford the fees due to the increments in fees by state universities..

You're not alone, I was thinking yesterday too how to balance up my outstanding and pay for next semester fee without delay. cry cry cry
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by juniorstar(m): 9:34am On Sep 17, 2021
Titanium007:
I wasnt broke in my school day's, infact I do receive upkeeps from two sources at the end of every month, I must be sincere, I attended school like the son of a senator. No be small groove o.
I paid for a very fine accommodation, it was almost like a hotel because it had steady power supply.
Come see babes wae want die because of me.
Which state?
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Bennethchiso(m): 9:36am On Sep 17, 2021
Indeed being a student in Nigeria with no sponsor can be very stressful. Like now, I have been very broke since i finished paying my school fees last week. I don't know where my next meal will come from. Wish someone will cubanize my account.

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by ghettochild(m): 9:38am On Sep 17, 2021
Whenever I was broke.. I just run to lagos for the weekend... Play Baba Ijebu n win return back to ogun state Sunday evening.
My Zenith Acct am using till date was opened with lotto winnings

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by chelseamann(m): 9:41am On Sep 17, 2021
I never experienced anything like been broke because I already established a business to cater for myself and family before entering school..
I lived a moderate but very comfortable life all my years in school until I graduated..2020

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by juniorstar(m): 9:44am On Sep 17, 2021
Lapinski:
But na you go dey stay rumuagholu when school na choba... When rent is even cheaper in Aluu
No be Aluu dem kill those 4 students
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Ollie2103: 9:45am On Sep 17, 2021
michresakidjo:
cry cry cry cry

Op should I say you read through my mind. This is what I'm battling with currently. I have been without food for almost three weeks now. I went to an ATM stand here on my campus to check my account balance... Thinking of manna from heaven (I had done this many tines over) Coz I was terribly hungry and my chest hurts like hell. I solely depends on God, my mum and the little my friends give me but I can't at all time bother them, they too are students like me.

And to My girlfriend, you're a world to me even though I conceal this from you

I went to bed yesterday With empty stomach , exam is fast approaching (time table already out).


I pray this time should be a past of me that will inspire others.

Shalom
You have a girlfriend? You are doing well o shocked
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by olucephas(m): 9:47am On Sep 17, 2021
Still in school though.


I have experienced a lots in life and managed to gained admission.

Eating in school is a big challenge , I have eaten many weird food combos.
Trekking to school and all that.

There was this particular day, I ate Eba and palm oil mixed with pepper.....when I was tired of drinking gari.

It's not easy to be an orphan.

Better days are ahead .

But seriously...I need help.

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by KennyRouge: 9:53am On Sep 17, 2021
I wash plate for my neighbour then so that when they cook I go fit see small portion out of it life hard ... But will still thank God

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by ArticleBeast: 9:54am On Sep 17, 2021
Japhet04:
if you had everything you wanted in school then this thread is not for you, but you really had to comment right?
It is also for him. He answer the first part of the question

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by baloney: 9:55am On Sep 17, 2021
Lived a very semi-broke life thru-out school, but we thank God Sha,about #10, 000 every month, no be play for Dem Lagos, bread & rice no go tire body for school now...
shocked shocked shocked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSkMXH5V7aQ
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by jclassiq(m): 9:56am On Sep 17, 2021
To be honest I can't honestly say I had it so bad. But at the same time I can't honestly say I had it so easy. I was just there. I was getting by. My oldest brother is an angel sent by God to help my life. He never disappointed me whenever I put a call across to him. But then I didn't want to overburden him.

Again, i am always looking to be enterprising. During one of the long ASUU strikes, i went to ado ekiti and started to hustle. I raised about 150k six months later before the strike ended. With tht money I was able to live decently for a while.

Just before the money finished I tried to start a business and succeeded. But I wasnt breaking even so I packed up.

The day I will never forget was the day I went to bed on an empty stomach --- for the first time in my life!

But the following day I got a connect thru a classmate to do JAMb runs for his elder brother's private school --- i made 7k from that, and i cooked a nice pot of soup.

I also made some money writing exams for a few of my classmates. Plus one 10k i made one time from writing jamb for one other guy like that.

Mehn ....School life wasn't so easy but I wouldn't change a thing.

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by hefelove(m): 10:00am On Sep 17, 2021
This thread wan make me cry sha. I remembered how hungry me and my room mates where, looking at them dying of hunger really made me feel bad, i wasn't even thinking about myself but was thinking of them, I had to go to the street to beg people for money so that we could eat, I summon courage o, as the first 2 people i went to meet use me wash i just jejely dey go back to hostel make me and my guys die of hunger but still we survive cheesy

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Nobody: 10:01am On Sep 17, 2021
ArticleBeast:

It is also for him. He answer the first part of the question
I guess so
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Lapinski: 10:05am On Sep 17, 2021
No be Israel them kill Jesus?
juniorstar:

No be Aluu dem kill those 4 students

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Pk01(m): 10:06am On Sep 17, 2021
michresakidjo:


You're not alone, I was thinking yesterday too how to balance up my outstanding and pay for next semester fee without delay. cry cry cry
you know without paying one cannot do course registration...
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by sakanifemi123(m): 10:06am On Sep 17, 2021
I don't know what to say because the story is long but the episode is short. Where can i start from, it is the time where it very difficult to eat when you will be thinking of maybe the world is about to end or it is time of trekking from school to off campus... but appreciate those partake make it sweet and fun.. God will make your own story to be great......
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by VTJN(m): 10:10am On Sep 17, 2021
I went through hell back in school. I suffered that my friends and some of my course mates had to shuffle food for me at times

I couldn't even afford getting accommodation off campus nor school hostel. I squatted with a family friend who barely feed on it's own. I'm indepted to this family though for providing me accommodation. They gave me roof over my head. I was top of the class despite my condition. I also make sure my close friends all graduated with 2.1.

It was during my studentship i knew i can't joined the bandwagon and indulged in cyber crime. I had course mates who are living large and bailing as Yahoo guys. They literally told me to come live with them and forget I've once starved before.

They owned their ride and live comfortably. They literally live a gigantic lifestyles. Nonetheless, I never give in. Despite the pressure, I never for once imagined myself in their shoes. They'd invite me to their house during exam period to help them with tutorials, but i don't usually honour their invitation. We only meet in school, do whatever we had to do and get dispersed afterwards.

I constantly love taking water to avoid having ulcer. I got discouraged, stressed out and overwhelmed in my final year. I had to work my ass off on menial jobs to pay tuition fees and project work. My Calabar neighbour back then also helped me with food, i was taking his son who's preparing to sit for UTME tutorials. I had the opportunity of using a smart phone ( android) in my final year, this was when my friend gave me hers having gotten a new one

I got relieved and happy when i left school, even though i knew deep down i was on my own. I need no soothsayers to tell me i had much more tougher days ahead. I was just glad living that building called school. Seriously school was hell on me. I did participated in some extracurricular activities, that doesn't make it interesting to me.

I'm out of school now, but no job. At times, I'd be wondering if i didn't made the wrong choice going to school at first. The noble pandemic (Covid) also came in when i graduated and disrupted everything. Seriously i just need a job to help myself and family. I wonder when someone would start living a normal life. This life is truly not fair to all.

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Born2winnx: 10:12am On Sep 17, 2021
Titanium007:
I wasnt broke in my school day's, infact I do receive upkeeps from two sources at the end of every month, I must be sincere, I attended school like the son of a senator. No be small groove o.
I paid for a very fine accommodation, it was almost like a hotel because it had steady power supply.
Come see babes wae want die because of me.

You go soon suffer later, then you go understand how we feel.
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Born2winnx: 10:14am On Sep 17, 2021
just2endowed:
Mehn, school life was rough. I was so broke in year 2 that I couldn't afford transport to school again, not to talk of feeding.

Brokeness hit me so heard that in exams I was chased out of the hall because I couldn't pay school fees,but before they chased me out, I have already answered half of the questions and submit just like that. My next paper was in 3 weeks time and I was able to rally around for the school fees....

Year 3 and 4, I was not lacking in food again because my late cousin join me as my roommate.

Were you grateful? Or you saw him as your mugu
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by just2endowed: 10:30am On Sep 17, 2021
Born2winnx:


Were you grateful? Or you saw him as your mugu

nope, i was grateful.
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Emeraldfynest(m): 10:35am On Sep 17, 2021
I'm still in school, it's not easy honestly, lost my dad this January and things have been tough since then. Luckily I just got a new laptop from the Federal Government, but I still need money for data and training to learn digital skills that can sustain me.

I worked in a block industry last year to raise money for the laptop, but I couldn't raise half of it then. God will help all struggling students out there. Just keep up your faith and believe, things will be better.

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Born2winnx: 10:43am On Sep 17, 2021
just2endowed:


nope, i was grateful.
Nice, he's proud of you, wherever he is now.
Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by Goldenfinger: 10:47am On Sep 17, 2021
Omoh make man thank God... You know how many times I beg soup waka,I use onion, oil and maggie and salt take do stew. Omoh sometimes I only eat once a day.. no gas, no money, only garri na be foodstuffs wen remain. But thank God always cause God always see me through.. na God go bless Eddy and jennifer for me o, cause dem try for me well... but my Hnd I nor go suffer like dis, because now I know the power of Thanksgiving... like through out this year I have never been stranded...all thanks to our almighty God,King of kings,my great provider, the lion of the tribe of judah, the mighty man in battle, Jehovah niseh,Olurun,Oghene,my Ogbenjuwa,my father in Heaven...no amount of words can describe your greatness...I love you God and you love me more

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Re: Were You Broke In School? Share Your Story by JustMe407: 10:56am On Sep 17, 2021
Omooo! Mehnn!!

I started seeing shege the moment I finished my admission clearance as a freshman. I stayed in the hostel then. Many nights I went hungry. No money to buy food nor money for even pure water.
No water to buy compulsory text books used as a prerequisite of submitting an assignment. I recall a time before sleeping; I laid on my back faced up looking at the ceiling. I decided to rub my stomach. That was when I realized that I had emaciated to a great extent. Guys!! As I rubbed my stomach, instead of touching some flesh, intestines or even some organs, my hands rubbed on my spinal cord. Like I could feel my spinal cord while rubbing my stomach.

That night I decided that the suffering was over! I ventured into campus entrepreneurship. Zero capital services. I began doing assignments for my mates. The uni then made laptops compulsory, I learnt graphics design via YouTube and began designing for a fee.

Na so I take escape hunger o! From my second year. I barely called home even for school fees. I graduated also with some reasonable funds in my account.

Didn't go back to father's house after that. This life of entrepreneurship, we go follow am to its full course.

Today, the journey hasn't been easy. But na who give up, fvck up. Na who no work hard go die of hunger.

Shalom.

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