CHAPTER TWO (2)
Life in AZUKU became very tough to Johnson after the demise of his father, Tarebi because his father qaa the sole bread winner of the family although his mother is also industrious. Due to the toughness of life in AZUKU for Johnson and his waec registration was at risk, he couldn't make on time to go to school as early as he was doing before, he had to go to the farm before going to school even though his mom stopped him to do so. Sometimes, after school he had to go to the scream to weep because the mentor of his life is no more and that his SSCE registration is nearly to relapse for lack of money. Had it been my father is still alive, i would have done my registration without wasting time with the help of my mother, he thought out loud.
Johnson was a boy born and bred by a puritan mother, who vowed to train him even with the last drop of her blood to make sure he achieve his goal in life, secretly went to her neighbor to borrow money and payed her child registration. Johnson was so elated when his mother gave him the Money, he smiles and said truly i have a life to live and also prayed to the gods to guide his mother to enjoy the fruit of her labour.
The next day, he went to the school and enrolled for his waec without wasting time, he was so happy in front of the principal for the first time after the demise of his father, am now going to school normally and will be writing my exam with my colleagues, he thought to himself. Johnson was eager to study law in university, selected his nine subjects and sitted for the exam after two weeks of his registration. He came out km flying colors and as he promised his mother not to disgrace her by scoring low in the exam.
He made all his nine papers including Mathematics and English language.
Life in AZUKU became little easy for Johnson after his graduation from the secondary school because his mother is always there to carter for his needs when the need arises. He normally helped his mother at the market to sell food stuffs and other materials.
He aimed of collecting university form, so he worked hard with his mother, after gathering some money he worte the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination amd beat off the general cut off mark for the year. Through the help and courage of his mother and other colleagues in the village, he got admitted to MAJOR'S INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY to study civil law.
University life was not easy for Johnson in the 100 and 200 Levels but he managed to solve the problems. Due to his introvert attitude in the 100 and 200 Levels respectively, he had only one friend, Isaac Ebi who was his roommate in MAJOR'S INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY and who was also a civil law student with him.
Due to some financial problems, Johnson sometimes has to do some minor works in the campus just to raise some money but his mother always insist that he should not do such things, his mother will borrow money from the villagers amd promised to pay back when the need arises for Johnson's school fees. Anytime he comes back home within the vacation period, he have to hustle to get a table set in the family and his mother will always advice him not to join bad boys(cult) but should associate with friends that will help him both financially and educational capacity. Isaac Ebi, his roommate will sometimes pay a visit to his house as they are from the same Village, he will also advice him not to associate with friends that will reduce his educational capacity or even lure him to dropout from school.
After much exercise as a good friend to Johnson, they went together to school to see if their names are in the list, whether they are allowed to go to the 300 Level. To their surprise their names was in the promotion list of the school and no carry over, the two friends were very happy about the news, when they got to their room Isaac Adviced Johnson's on some matters about the 300 level.
O boy!, na the strongest level we dey right now o, Isaac said in pidgin English. Why I mean is the strongest is because many challenges will come, many students usually don't make it to the final level because of following bad friends, joining cults and all sorts of things so my advice for you and even to myself is that we should focus on our studies, avoid bad friends and all sort of things that will limit our educational knowledge, Isaac Finally said.
gods of our land, please guide and protect us as we are stepping into another level of education, Johnson prayed.
After few weeks of being in the same hostel with Isaac, Johnson decided to rent another room in Dr. Peterson's Hostel(Off campus).
Isaac was surprised about the new behavior of Johnson in the 300 Level, he thought of stopping him from going off campus, instead be should stay in the main campus but to no avail, Johnson declined all his instructions and advice's and went ahead to secure an apartment in Peterson's hostel. Even though Johnson had packed out from the main campus and leaving Isaac behind, his friend Isaac will not waste time to talk to him on different occasions and mostly about his decision for leaving the main campus.
But Johnson will say, Life is not fair in the school hostel, so i decided to pack out and also asked Isaac not to come to his room if that's what he's coming for. Isaac was amazed when Johnson asked him out of his room because of his questions about vacating the school campus.
Oh boy!!! Life don change oo, Johnson will always say. 
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