The joy savoured by a fresh Nigerian graduate, Simon Idoko, and his family has been interjected with gloom as he has died days after he completed his National Youths Service Corps.
Simon was a First Class graduate of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Usmanu Danfodiy University, Sokoto.
Reports say Simon suffered greatly to attain university education as he was said to have sat for the UTME six times.
A friend of the deceased Ameh Godwin, told his story in a tribute he posted on Facebook:
Ogbee! This sounds unbelievable and heartbreaking. You made us proud by graduating with first class after writing UTME (JAMB) six times, today, you have been snatched by the cold hands of death in a mysterious way.
How do I explain this to those who celebrated your academic feat with me Just three weeks after your NYSC, you went the way of all mortals.
We spoke few days ago and you promised you were going to be fine. What happened? Is this the ‘fine’ you assured me?
This is sad. Simon Godwin Idoko, please tell my brother, Prince Ameh Jerry, that; this is what the world has been reduced to.
Tell him the fences he left behind have fallen and strangers now pull down our beards.
Tell him we now swim in tears and pains. Tell him our arms have broken and termites have destroyed our homes. What a wicked world.
The deceased served as a graduate assistant at Godfrey Okoye University in Enugu State before his death.
