Whether yours is a single-parent family or both parents work, chances are good that your older kids will spend some time alone after school during this school year. Even kids with stay-at-home moms aren't supervised 100% of the time. What your kids eat when you're not looking might surprise you. You've heard of spring cleaning, but have you ever considered fall cleaning? I'm talking about cleaning out your pantry, getting rid of unhealthy snacks.
Your kids won't have to fight the temptation when they're home alone if you fight temptation at the grocery store. Make it easy on your kids to eat healthy by only providing healthy options at home. They can have sweets and salty snacks on occasion, but only on occasion. If you keep these foods in your pantry, your kids are likely to eat them as often as they can get away with it.
Not only that, they're likely to combine these unhealthy snacks in new, creative, and humorously disgusting ways. Remember when you were a kid? What horrible food combinations did you come up with? Some of the combinations I've heard over the years include sugary cereal with chocolate malted milk balls and marshmallows, peanut butter and chocolate chips on white bread, marshmallows melted in the microwave.
Healthy after-school snacks for kids
Get rid of potato chips
Replace them with whole wheat crackers with low fat cheese. Read the labels of the crackers at the store. Buy two or three that seem relatively healthy. Let your kids decide which to keep in the pantry. This way, you get their buy-in.
Get rid of toaster pastries with fruit filling
Replace them with multigrain bread with raspberry jam. You get extra points for choosing sugar-free jam!
Get rid of pizza rolls
Replace them with English muffins, pizza sauce, and low fat mozzarella. Try to find a pizza sauce made with fresh ingredients, no preservatives. Your kids can spread the sauce on half of a muffin, sprinkle with a tablespoon of cheese, and then microwave for 30 seconds or so. This doesn't take any longer than microwaving the frozen pizza rolls would, but is guaranteed to be much lower in fat.
Get rid of fruit-flavored snacks
Replace them with fruit. A good rule of thumb is: The less processed a food is, the better it is. Snacks don't get any healthier than fruit.Your kids are likely to gravitate toward food that's easy to grab and go. If you make fall cleaning your pantry part of your back to school routine, you can ensure that they make healthy choices because only healthy foods will be available to them.
Your kids are likely to gravitate toward food that's easy to grab and go. If you make fall cleaning your pantry part of your back to school routine, you can ensure that they make healthy choices because only healthy foods will be available to them.
Pediatrician Dr. Marta Katalenas is on a crusade against childhood obesity. Children are not responsible for buying or preparing their own food, and Dr. Katalenas believes the cooperation of the entire family is essential in the fight against childhood obesity. She is available for public speaking engagements and is located in the Austin, Texas area. Pediatric Center of Round Roc
Saturday, September 4, 2010
DRAMA
DRAMA
WRITTEN BY
EBERE C LUCKY
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E-MAIL: sesacox@yahoo.co.uk
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Biography of the author
The author of this drama was born in 1976 to EBERE C LUCKY of delta state of
Had I Known
This is the story of a child born to Mr. /Mrs. Jones in Ebuta. Mr. Jones was a hunter while the wife was a tailor. They had only two children, a boy named Titus and a daughter called Fate. Both attended Saint Anthony village Ebuta.
Fate began to grow and at the age of fifteen years, the urge for sex began to set in her, Mr. /Mrs. Jones continued to advise the children on the importance of education as they were under privileged to go to school. Fate had the passion for juices and bear meat. That is why it is stocked their cool room. Fate elegance was attributed to the beverages she ate. Her beauty began to manifest unimaginably. This however caught the eye of Klen. Fate fell in love with Klen.
At the final year of Fate in St. Anthony’s College, she got pregnant for Klen, upon observation by her parents, faith eloped. Every attempt to reach out to Fate proved abortive. Fate phones lines kept going, her mother advised her to come back home for solutions. Fate gave deaf hears. Her parents arranged to get rid of that pregnancy even if she could come home but to no avail. All efforts made to trail and find Klen in school met its waterloo. Klen and Fate began their marital life in hidings. Years later, their hideout were discovered, but as at the time Mr. /Mrs. Jones were not ready to stress themselves about the hopeless child. Sooner or later, hardship set in for Klen beyond his control. He therefore drove Fate out of his matrimonial home. Fate after three days of wandering, finally settled in an uncompleted building where one of three children died. She was taken home to the parents by Dada. The parents embraced her with tears but couldn’t under any circumstances reject their child despite her prodigality. Upon recount and frustrated thoughts by Fate, delivered the podigm, Had I known.
Characters
Mr. Jones Father
Mrs. Jones Wife of Mr. Jones
Fate daughter
Titus son
Gift Fate’s school mate
Dick Saint Anthony’s College Principal.
Ebuta Town of
Arabi Carpenter
Evans House help
Klen labour prefect
Mike mathematics teacher
Serome chemistry teacher
Brown brother to jones
Bigg eldest brother to Jones
Rosin specialist hospital in ebuta
Dada market woman
Peace daughter to Fate
Mark Son to Fate
Job Second son for Fate
Tom senior prefect.
Mr. Jones: My wife Dorathy, I am going to the third forest behind the dark river to trace the elephant I saw the legs one week ago. Please take care of my children. Mrs. Jones: please be careful and go well.
Mr. Jones: thank you my wife! And he departed.
Mrs. Jones: Fate and Titus, wake up. Its 5.00am let’s have our morning devotion.
Titus: Mummy, I am already awake, except Fate.
Mrs. Jones: Fate! Fate!! Got up sluggishly for the devotion.
Mrs. Jones: sang praises and prayed to God to lead them in the day’s activities. She concluded the prayers by asking the children to set for school.
Evans: mummy, their breakfast is ready.
Mrs. Jones: called Fate and Titus to the dining table for their breakfast.
Gift: Fate and Titus, I am set for school let’s be going.
Mrs. Jones: your desk and chairs are ready. Carry them from the carpenter while going to school. Your daddy has paid the carpenter for the job.
Arabi: your desk and chairs are ready carry them from the show room.
Titus and Fate: Thank you carpenter simultaneously.
Tom: rang the bell for the assembly and every student gathered at the ground.
Dick: conducted the assembly and every student to their respective classes.
Mike: Good morning class: students answered in unison. The topic for today is equation. He taught and left at the expiration of his period.
Jerome: God-day class! There were response. The topic is electrons. He taught and left at the end of his teaching period.
Klen: Fate, I am in love with you. I have been waiting all day long to find an avenue to express my views. The day is come. You are so precious to me and would try my best to make you very elegant.
Fate: Anyway, Klen I have to ponder towards your talk and give you answer next week.
One week later.
Klen: what is your mind Fate?
Fate: a Em…., I will give you a trial
Klen: I will surprise you fate!
Fate: Okay! I am waiting to see.
Two days later
Klen: Fate, let’s go to school canteen.
Fate: Alright, let’s go
Klen: Service! Give me salad
Fate: give me salad also
Klen: what is my bill? Have your money, and both departed.
One week later
Klen: we will visit my house to study together that topic on mathematics. I am aware the topic is giving you problems.
Fate: I will be glad if you can put me through. I need to know the topic before our exams set in.
Klen and Fate: went to Klen’s house for the mathematics.
Klen: Fate, hope you know the topic
Fate: Thank you so much! I can now teach gift when I get back to class.
Klen: how would you appreciate my effort? Asked Fate as at this time, Klen hand was already below the belt and Fate became responsive
Fate: I love you Klen.
Klen: why do you love me, Fate.
Fate: I love you Klen because of your intelligence and beauty.
Klen: thank you. At this time, Klen were already romancing Fate, both moods changed.
Fate: Fate began to scream.
Klen: responded with his manhood and both eyes were cleared.
Three weeks later
Klen: Fate, shall we go to my place for the chemistry? You are aware that sciences needs guidance before you can pick up.
Fate: darling! We shall go immediately after the mathematics lecture.
Klen: shall we go now? Fate!
Fate: let’s go and come back before long break.
Klen: remove your underwear.
Fate: it’s remaining my pant only.
Klen: remove it as well.
Fate: I have done that.
Klen/fate: made love for the second time.
One Mouth Later.
Fate: I did not see my monthly blessing
Klen: what do you mean Fate?
Fate: My monthly menstruation
Klen: what shall we do?
Fate: I don’t know! I have never being involved in this situation before. I got to know that I am pregnant because of our study in reproduction and fertilization.
Klen: let’s go for abortion?
Fate: I have never tried that before and can’t do it. It is ungodly and destructive to the female reproductive system as we learnt in biology class.
Klen: it is not Fate, Its like ordinary menstruation.
Fate: enough is enough! I can’t try it.
Klen: okay! Fate, we shall bear the consequence of this pregnancy
Three months later
Dick: go and ring the bell for emergency assembly, tom.
Tom: Rang the bell and the students gathered at the assembly ground.
Dick: I have seen strange and unbelievable story. I want Fate to stand out before the students.
Fate: fate came out
Dick: I gathered from a reliable source that fate is pregnant. I want to use fate as a deterrent to others. She was expelled from school and never to be seen in the compound.
Fate: left to the parents home accompanied by the principal and two teachers to Ebuta.
Mrs. Jones: are you really pregnant?
Fate: Mummy, I didn’t know. I have stopped seeing my period three months ago.
Mrs. Jones: Who is responsible? Klen.
Mrs. Jones: Who is Klen?
Fate: Our Labour prefect.
Mrs. Jones: where is he from?
Fate: Northern part of Ebuta
Mrs. Jones: I will tell your father when he comes back.
Mrs. Jones: Daddy, your daughter is pregnant. She said, one Klen from northern Ebuta.
Mr. Jones: where is the Fate?
Mrs. Jones: called Fate, hoping she was at the inner room. No response.
Mrs. Jones searched all the rooms, fate had left the house. This was how fate ran away to meet Klen and both went into hidings.
Klen: you know my parents are dead
Fate: I am aware.
Klen: I rely on God for everything only.
Fate: yes Klen
Fate: delivers a baby boy
Two years later
Klen: our child is grown up, we need to have another child.
Fate: you are right, honey!
Two months later
Fate: Honey! I am pregnant
Klen: we thank God. Its what we prayed for.
Nine months later
Fate: delivered a baby girl
Twenty one days later
Fate: honey! We shall on Sunday dedicate this child to God.
Klen: you are right. Let’s arrange for it.
Klen: now that we have dedicated the child, you can now walk around in pursuit of daily bread.
Fate: yes daddy.
Eighteen months later
Fate: I am pregnant, daddy!
Klen: it is fine! This shall mark the last child by the grace of God.
Nine months later
Fate: daddy, I am observing signs of delivery.
Klen: please go to the community hospital immediately.
Two hours later.
Fate: thank God, I have delivered safely.
Klen: I thank you God for the life of my wife and the entire family.
Two days later
Fate: we are discharged from hospital
Klen: let’s go home for I have paid the bill.
Three years later
Klen: things are becoming tough and tougher.
Fate: it is actually hard but lets’ continue praying to God.
Three weeks later
Klen: you have to go back to your parents to enable me strategies on how to carry the family.
Fate: I can’t go to my parents, I will rather stay behind if you had plans of leaving the town.
Klen: please park your things and get out of my house.
Fate: I have nothing to park. Let me carry my box.
Fate: soliloquizing; where do I go? Let me go towards the market side. I might see a store to sleep with my children.
Dada: what are you doing with your children in an open shop?
Fate: my husband drove us out of my matrimonial home and my last born is sick.
Dada: the eye has turned yellow.
Fate: he is breathing very faintly.
Dada: felt the breath; the boy is dead.
Fate: do you mean it?
Dada: yes, he is dead
Dada: where are you from?
Fate: I am from Ebuta
Dada: what family?
Fate: I am from Jones family.
Dada: okay! Let’s go for: I can trace the place.
Fate: my parents will skin me alive. I can’t go, mummy.
Dada: continue to persuade faith and finally, they left for Ebuta.
Dada: knocked at the doors of Mr./ Mrs. Jones.
Mrs. Jones: who is knocking? Stretching her neck to ascertain whom was knocking.
Dada: I am dada, a market woman in the town market. Do you know this child?
Mrs. Jones: Looked gazingly! Shouted; fate, ran to her, and embraced her and carried one of the two children.
Mr. Jones ran out and carried the other child.
Dada: I am going
Mr. /Mrs. Jones: come in madam! Don’t go like that.
Mr. Jones: I thank you for bringing my lost child. May God be with you. Offered her gift and cash.
Dada: Thank you oga, I never expected this kind of care. God bless you.
Dada: departed.
Mr. Jones: continue to stare at fate, while mrs. Jones prepared and brought out meal.
Fate: thanks mummy for the food.
Mrs. Jones: thank you my daughter.
Mrs. Jones: what happened? What brought you back home after years?
Fate: my husband drove me out because of hardship and Dada brought us out from the uncompleted building where my last child died.
Mrs. Jones: advised fate. Fate regretted her mistakes and said HAD I KNOWN
THE MURKY TRADITION
Introduction:
This is a traditional belief that berates modernization in several cultural advancement. It appears unacceptable as culture and tradition. Explorers of acceptable and embracing culture wrote off a murky culture and tradition of this nature and calls for innovation and orientation.
It is paramount in African soils that such expository stories would ameliorate a deteriorating section of the economy with biased customs, folks, traditions, beliefs and norms.
Characters
Village name Abba Uno
Chief Priest Ikwere
King of the Town Obi
Eastern quarters Idumugbo
Western quarters Ogbeuzu
Northern quarters Ugboko
Southern quarters Umushu
Youth leader Ogbe
Men leaders Ukwelegwe
Shrine priest of east Odogwu
Shrine priest of east Onogwu
Shrine representative to
Shrine representative to
Ndu flutist
Nwanochie flutist
Nwachukwu drummer
Ekene drummer
Ozeli singer
Bishop Owen Bishop of Diocese of
Olili woman queen
Ashim follower of chief priest
Sunday follower of chief priest
Dada king first wife and leader of women in king’s quarters.
Abulamusi firewood discarder
Ubom cutting of tortoise
Ifeanyi leader of youths from obi quarters on night expenditure.
Olokor Town – crier
Youth leader: chief priest, this is the month of September when we mark our festival.
Chief priest: I am aware my son, I don’t have money. Besides my compound is so bushy and needs clearing.
Youth leader: I will reach out to other youths on a date we would come for clearing.
Chief priest: thank you my son.
Four weeks later
Youth leader: we have come to clear your compound.
Chief priest: thank you my children. I appreciate your concern.
Youth leader: we have finished the working and are going. When will you mark the festival?
Chief priest: my children, thank you so much, my compound is beautiful and clean now. The date can’t be decided because as I told you, I don’t have the money for the rituals that are involved.
Youth leader – how much do you need exactly?
Chief priest: fifty thousand dollars will be okay.
One week later
Youth leader: this is the money you demanded to make the festival sir.
Chief priest: thank you my children, the money is enough and the festival would commence nine days later.
Idumugbo: we are going to clear the shrine to enable the festival take place as schedule on the ninth day.
Chief priest: I present you with kola nuts. I, bless the kola nut for long life and protection from our ancestors.
Idumugbo: we thank you for the kola nuts. We will now move ahead to clear the shrine.
Three hours later
Idumugbo: the shrine is cleared and we are going.
Chief priest: thank you, the festival is nine days today.
Four days to the festival
Ogbeuzu: this is our day, the day we look forward for our ancestors within the quarters. It is expected that every male adult should cook. We shall go round their homes and eat the food.
Chief priest: I shall join you as soon as darkness set in.
Eight days later
Obi – this is my day when I cook alone for my people to appease the gods and thank them for keeping us alive.
Umushu: we appreciate you our king and we shall be in your house as soon as darkness set in.
Nine days later
Town crier: this is the day we have been waiting for all sons and daughters of Abba Uno. We expect a mass turn out in their dance costume for the festival.
Youth leader: let the youth be informed that they should at the festival come with their weapons of war as the chief priest demanded.
By 13:7 hrs
Chief priest – prepare in white and red costume to the shrine at the bad bush where people that died of abominable sins are buried. The chief priest pacify the oracle and stays for an hour.
After 1 hour
Ogbuezu: prepares with their dancing drum, gung, to welcome the priest from his visit to the ancestors.
Idumugbo: we are joining ogbeuzu to welcome the chief priest.
Ugboko: we are joining the Ogbeuzu to welcome the chief priest.
Idumugbo: we are joining the ogbeuzu to welcome the chief priest.
Two hours later
Ogbeuzu, Ugboko, Umushu, Idumugbo converge at the market centre where they took off with a dance to the road of the bad bush to welcome the chief priest.
Thirty minutes later
Chief priest arrived with a sophisticated crowd dressed in their costume with gun – shots.
Ukwelegwe: stands out to embrace the chief priest on his successful return from the sacred land. This is lead in great crowd with melodious songs they joined the mammoth crowd with his men and proceeded to kings palace.
Okita: come out from his quarters with his men with the costume and joined the chief priest to the palace after embracing him.
Odogwu: he came from his quarters with his crowd with their costume and embraced the chief priest equally to the palace.
Ndu: steadily blowing his flute.
Nwanochie: Blowing his flute intermittently.
Nwachukwu: beats the biggest drum for the festival.
Ekene: beats the small low voice drum.
Ozele: continues to give the crowd songs
Olili: continues rubbing chicken blood on the body of the chief priest.
Ashim: next to the priest in the crowd holding his war sword.
Sunday: holding a grinded chalk sprinkling at any junction they passed and at trees believed to have relationship with ancestral history.
Upon arrival at the palace.
Obi: I thank everybody for the dance accompanying the festival and most importantly, the chief priest. I am presenting this calabash of wine to the chief priest and his group.
Chief priest: I thank you the Obi for the kola nut and drinks please bless it.
Obi: I bless the kola nuts and wine that we shall celebrate more years to come.
After kola nuts / wine.
Drummers: begins the drumming and dance set in.
Obi: embraced the chief priest and dance ensued between the two personalities while the crowd joined the dance.
By
The festival ended and every body went home while the chief priest was accompanied home by Sunday and ashim.
Four days later
Obi: summoned a mass meeting to address the issue of the festival where Ubom, Onogwu, Abulamusi and Ifeanyi were killed with cutlasses and arrows.
Chief priest: it is traditional that there must be spill of blood in appeasing our ancestors in a mood of festival. Therefore, the dead should be forgotten while the culprits should be fined for killings and not inflicting only injury.
Odogwu: supported the chief priest.
Okita: supported Odogwu
Ukwelegwe – supported the speakers.
Obi: since you have spoken in this voice; leaders of different quarters, I have accepted your opinion. It portrays opinion of the people, but how do we avert future occurrence so that it doesn’t cause family wars or reappraisal killings in subsequent festival.
Youth leader: thank you the Obi for your speech. There is nothing we can do about it because it stands for the ancestors, of whatever occurrences that ensued during the festival.
Obi: thank you, youth leader, you are aware I invited the bishop of this area and would like him advise the community.
Bishop: I thank you our most respected Obi, I also thank different quarter leaders present here, men and women, youth and generality of the people. According to word of our creator. Jesus started with prayers and ended with prayers. Lets us bow down our head for prayers.
Having prayed, I want to state here according to the bible that, it is a sin to destroy or kill human being created by God in his image. Greatest offence.
Crowd: shouted in accord
Bishop: I wish we make amends in the following areas. These are areas where the tradition appears murky, ungodly and satanic.
These include:
Worship of man-made idols which you sprinkle blood.
Secondly, use of weapons of war of any sort be avoided. The festival should henceforth represent New Yam festival where each family cook and eat without worship to idols.
Each family to converge at the church for prayers and depart to their various homes on that day.
The chief priest should destroy or ask me to destroy all wooden images in his compound and cut down those trees he worship as gods.
Obi: The obi asked if there, was a contrary idea or opposition to the bishop?
All answered in affirmative.
Obi: I make it as a law today that henceforth the words of the bishop takes effect from the moment and the festival now takes form of a new yam festival. Idol worship shall cease henceforth and at the end, the crowd departed.
AN ERUDITE SCHOLAR
Introduction
This drama is about a student in the university who was so brilliant but was denied his performance as a result of love affair. He is Max by name. He fell in love with
However, Max was able to surmount the situation at last, though, with a lot of sacrifice from various groups including parents of Max, Union president and pastor.
The Academic boards of the school were contributory to Max triumphant. The Vice Chancellor of the University who were known to be above board is all his dealings amongst others were at the apex of academic reality. It however send a caution to other lecturers of the school to eschew academic bias despite all odds. The students learnt also that they reserved the right to forward their academic complaint if any to the appropriate quarters despite the categories of student’s financial stands. The eponymous characters are entrenched.
Characters.
Max Male student.
Prince Lecturer
Melody head of academics
John Vice chancellor
Mike Deputy Vice Chancellor
Ndidi member of academic board.
Chidi member of Academic board.
Junior President, student Union Government
Ngozi friends to china
Mr/Mrs Victor parents to Max
Mr/Mrs Nnana parents to
Mr Emeka pastor to living word church
Ben Class mate to Max
Val Co –lecture to prince
Ben: I want to enroll for the joint admission and matriculation board examination into the Nigeria Universities as I have the prerequisites.
Max: it is a welcome development that obtains the forms together.
Ben: The form is three thousand naira and my parents have given it to me. I shall go for the form morrow.
Max: I shall prevail on my parents for concordance. I will send the money to you through your account to enable you get both forms together.
Ben: this is your scratch card. Its online. I shall be on net tomorrow to complete mine.
Max: I shall oblige to be on net as well.
Ben: Max, are you aware the exams comes up on the 17th of May.
Max: of course, yes.
Mr. /Mrs. Victor: Be aware Max that you must read harder to make your exams. Avoid too much friends to enable you have time for study.
Max: I am aware daddy. Thanks for the advise. I am doing my best too to appear in flying colours in the exams.
Ben: How are you reading Max? I am trying, we pray to God for the remaining ones.
Max: how did you find the exams?
Ben: the exams wasn’t so difficult to me but time. There were no enough time, though, I finished the questions.
Max: I did mine as well but ended in Ninety five question out of the one hundred because of time constraint.
Ben: It does mean. if you do well on the ones you wrote, you will pass the examination.
Max: let’s wait for the result.
Ben: that’s right. Hopefully we will excel.
Max: I am successful. The result is published.
Ben: I am successful as much we shall go for clearance and registration by Wednesday next week.
Max: Ben, I am set for the school.
Ben: I am ready too.
Having completed the clearance and registration in the
Ben: I will stay off campus. That is my choice
Max: we shall be room-mates.
After matriculation
Ben: I am flabbergasted at the throng pf the department.
Max: quite dispiriting.
Ben: we shall display all cynics in the academic works.
Max: I can’t rule my emotions. I am crinkled by
Ben: it is quite crony to me as your ideas, thought and emotions defiles the intent purposes of our academic agenda.
Max: obviously dilettante but I shall go ahead to nourish the academics with pleasures of life.
Max: I am in love,
Prince: my lecture for today is nutrition. The lecturer thought all about the topic and we were ready to leave the class, exclaimed, china let me see you in my office.
Prince: my friend, Val, I saw a fine, capitulating girl in my last class. I have invited her to the office.
Val: you don’t mean it. Is she attractive enough? Go ahead if she’s ok.
Prince: I am not offended
Prince: I need feedback soonest to enable me outline program for you.
Val: what is her response? Did she succumb?
Prince: she couldn’t give an immediate answer, Val, but I guess things will be palatable.
One week later
Prince: No doubts, I am fortified to render unexpected assistance in your academic and financial welfare.
Max: we will be going to my house,
Max: by 19:00hrs
Same time both left
Max: you are so sweet, I never believed I could be with you in a mood like this.
Two weeks later
Max:
Max: you are so satisfying
Prince: I heard that you are into relationship with students, is it true?
Prince: ok! I have to believe you.
1st Year gone
Max: I performed excellently well, my friend Ben.
Ben: I did well too. What about
Max: she tried as well.
Then towards the end of 2nd year
Prince: it is established that you have an affair with Max
Prince: do you remember the 15th of last month by
Prince: I shall show the stupid boy the way out.
After 2nd semester examinations
Ben: how did you perform in the 2nd semester exams?
Max: very poor result, I don’t understand what happened.
Ngozi: are you aware? Max that
Max: I never knew that. When I suspected
Ngozi: be it known to you that you are in hell. Be prayerful to graduate in this school.
Max: do you see what you have caused me
3rd Year of academic calendar
Ben: how is your performance in the last semester
Max: very bad, I shall go home to report to my parents
Ben: it’s wise doing that.
Max: daddy I am passing through hell in school, my performance dropped after my 1st year in school. I fell in love with a class mate called
Mr. Victor: what a titillating report! I advise you never to indulge yourself in women affairs to enable you do well. You have not only failed yourself but the entire family. Let’s go and see our pastor.
Mr. /Mrs. Victor: man of God, we have come to you to report the rustication of our son in school because of the coincided love affair, between him and his lecturer with China, the lecturer named Prince decided to show him way out by carry-over and reseat in consequence of his action.
Pastor: it’s quite a pitiable situation. Your child is supposed to face his studies and eschew from immoral acts, shall we pray for forgiveness. The pastor prayed for the parents and their son, and they all departed.
Max back to school
Max: junior, look at my situation. Max narrated everything to the student union government.
Junior: I shall accompany you to the head of academics to report the lecturer.
Max: thank you, Junior.
Max prepares his petition and went ahead to report the lecturer in company of the student union president.
Junior: good day sir, we have come to report Mr. Prince to you, here is the petition.
Junior presented the petition to Melody
Melody: see me tomorrow by
Max & Junior in his office the next day
Melody: I have gone through your petition and have forwarded same to the board, you are therefore requested to appear for defence forth-night.
Junior & Max: thank you sir.
Junior and Max departed
Melody: Prince, see me in my office by
Prince: I am here sir,
Melody: you have a case to answer on the 3rd night on a student called Max of Home economics department on alleged rustication which perpetrated in avenge of female relationship struggle according to the petition.
Third day later
Ndidi, Mike, Chidi were seated in Melody’s office expecting the invitees.
Prince: Good morning sirs, get seated.
Junior/Max: Good morning sirs, and took their seat.
Melody: we have called you, Prince and Max to address the issue before us. There is a petition from Max against you Mr. Prince. I shall read the petition now.
Melody: read the petition
Prince: I am innocent. I have nothing against this young man, more so, I don’t know
Max: he is telling lies
Melody: Prince, Max, Junior, please excuse us. They then left to the next office.
Thirty minutes later
Junior, Max and Prince were asked to come inside.
Melody: Prince we have decided to have the answer sheet of your courses for Max from last semester to date before 10th of this month. You can depart.
On the 10th of that month
Prince: this is the answer sheet Sir
Melody: thank you so much we want to ensure that Justice prevails.
Next day
Melody called a board meeting and they appointed independent bodies to mark Max answer sheet with the school marking scheme.
Two weeks later
The independent bodies submitted their remarks and answer sheets to the board and departed.
Melody: board members; you can see the performance of Max. He is a brilliant student. Prince attempted to punish him for dragging a lover with him. We shall write and forward our reports to the deputy vice chancellor.
Melody: good day sir, this is the report of the board on the petition received against a lecturer.
D’V-Chancellor: I shall go through and forward same to the Vice Chancellor.
Two days later
Sir, Good day: this is a report of the findings and recommendation of the academic board, please go through and approve or disapprove their recommendation for actions.
Vice chancellor: read through the reports and recommendation asking Prince to be dismissed. The vice-chancellor therefore gave a nod to the decision of the board and minute back to the deputy vice chancellor who then sent a letter of dismissal to prince via his secretary.
Deputy Vice Chancellor: Max, you have no reseat by the report of the academic board, therefore you will graduate with this set of graduands
Max: parents, I am a graduate now after victory over rustication. Thank God! Exclaimed parents. The proof of AN ERUDITE SCHOLAR
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