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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