The Power of NEPA And Students' Anxiety

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By: Shuaib Ibrahim Haneef

On campus, students get worried most about two things: Water and light. But for me lately, I got to realize how everyone had anticipated power to be restored not until when "Up NEPA" sounded like an update. 

Having observed our morning prayers at Bakassi hostel masjid, most people went back to bed lazily and a few had to motivate themselves to start the day. As the motivational quote says "If you can't beat them, join them" Yeah... that was exactly the motivational quote I read before sleeping the previous night and without rethinking I joined the trend. Meanwhile, an agriculture lecture is fixed at 8:00 am in every of their test/exam timetable.

While I was about to sleep, many "what if" came through my mind. There was this particular "what if" that made me rethink "What if you sleep off and wake up by 10:00 am. What's up with my test?". This particular "what if" brought me out of my 10-minute nostalgic fantasy (the joy of no thought of Boko whenever you wake up).

Then, I gathered myself and went out to get water with no option, I had to join this snail-moving queue "With patience you can cook a stone," I remembered the wise saying. So, I consoled myself as I waited patiently. Don't think we have a bad water system from this end, it's just a power shortage problem....you know "NEPA has their ways of doing things" as we couldn't pump water for the three tanks at my hostel. 

With an echo of "UP NEPA", I watched everything turn around before my eyes, a moment I can describe as rapture, however, it sounded like an update or call of men or even therapy every sleeping body roused, every lazy body had enough reason to start the day, chargers everywhere, multi extension wires like a chemical structure (some looking like branch chained while some look like a straight chain structure).

But the joy in the air ended shortly. NEPA again!! (they are good at what they do except restoring power). Somehow, NEPA has its way of settling issues by going blackout (I noticed exactly when two people begin to quarrel for a charger either the head or the cord. NEPA's intervention is the best, perfect judge they can pass).

Somehow, I don't feel comfortable with the use of "power outage/shortage" but for formalities sake. You know in foreign movies when you hear "power outage/shortage", then it can only be either of the two; is either a villain attacks or there is a catastrophe in the city, but in our locality, there is always a shortage or outage so, we are good with "UP NEPA" or "heeee NEPA!!"

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