Victor's testimony Week 10, 2016

Though I had problems in passing some of my exams at a single sitting I passed my 5th MB resit examination in April 2012. I had spent 10 years on this 6 year course. I completed my clearances, paid for the Provisional License and awaited the induction which would allow me to begin housemanship when it was discovered that my name was not in the admission list of University of Nigeria for my admission year and because of this, I was denied. In short I had never been a student. Was 10 years of labour in vain? Incredible! At no time was my name not in the University’s list. Even though I had no copy of my JAMB letter I had seen it, I was never asked to withdraw throughout my stay; and my name had always been published with my colleagues for clinical postings, examinations and all that is expected for a student of the Faculty of Medical Sciences.

I went to JAMB National Office Abuja to inform them about the school's claimed loss of my Admission letter and they requested that the University should write them a formal letter of request for the re-printing of my admission letter but UNN never did that. I went to see that Faculty Officer who helped me get the admission, he told me that it was not a serious issue but that it could have been a case of an omission I should return to the Admission and Records Office and look for any junior staff there and do whatever they would ask me to do. He stressed that it has to be informal and that whatever the staff tells me to do should just be between that staff and myself-no one else should be privy to this even himself (that former faculty officer). I believe this will involve some crooked things like exchange of money or any other dubious way so I didn't go back to the Admission and Records Office as he asked me to. My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent Prov 1:10(ISV).

In 2014 I wrote the JAMB examination and was offered Geology in the University of Ibadan. Before I resume there, I wrote a letter to the current UNN Vice Chancellor that the matter be brought to the University Senate but the letter took a long time before it could get to the VC. The provost college of medicine was appointed chairman of the committee to look into those who had completed their program in the university but for some issues bothering on ‘’incomplete file”, had not graduated. When we heard this, we rejoiced believing it was God’s arrangement to clear me. But the registrar said the school can’t help me because I wasn’t even a UNN student in the first place. He told the provost my case was impossible and said the same to my face in 2015 when I went to see him. I moved to Ibadan concluding that God would want me to forget about the past (i.e. the UNN issue) and focus on what I had started doing in Ibadan.

Few days to the resumption of a new semester in Ibadan a friend of my Dad told him that the same registrar called him and told him that I have been cleared to graduate from UNN. The committee was yet to meet; the registrar cleared me on the directives of the Vice Chancellor. Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? Jer 32:27(KJV).                                                    Victor Nnaji is a doctor, a graduate of UNN