The Immigrant Life

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A Must-Read Story From Across the Atlantic

A Must-Read Story From Across the Atlantic

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Dapo Bankole
Sep 07, 2021
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The setting is Nigeria of 1998.

I graduated from the University and had to proceed on a one-year compulsory service to my fatherland which included a one-month paramilitary training as part of the experience. The service scheme is called the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). It still subsists but is sadly now dysfunctional because of terrorist acts. (…

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