A Nigerian student enrolled in one of the numerous tertiary
institutions in Ghana has cut and swallowed his penis. The incident
occurred last Friday. Although no one is sure what prompted the
25-year-old student (name withheld) to chop-off and practically ingest
his manhood, Daily Sun gathered that he is currently on admission at one
of Ghana’s teaching hospitals.
In Ghana, the average tuition fee per academic session for a
non-Ghanaian student hovers around $6,000 (over N900,000). If his
parents could pay his fees for studying in Ghana, it was doubtful hunger
was not the boy’s reason.
So, was he jilted by a lover? Was it some senseless act of bravado or as
a result of failure or poor grades? The student, who hails from Zaria,
Kaduna State told Mr. Andrew Idi and other officials of the Nigerian
High Commission Accra who visited him in hospital that he believed he
was under a spell, when he carried out the bizarre act. Mr. Idi is
Consular Officer at Nigeria’s mission in the Ghanaian capital. Reliable
sources indicated more than 20,000 Nigerians are students in various
tertiary institutions across the former Gold Coast.
And, the number is rising by the semester, as countless Nigerian parents
are confident a child studying in a Ghanaian university is sure to
complete her/his programme on schedule, whereas, back home some students
had spent seven years on a four-year programme, without graduating
because of suspension of academic activities, consequent upon incidences
of labour strikes, closure of schools over terrorists’ attacks and
other incidents.
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