Edulight: STUDENTS’ CORNER For July 2020

Poem on freedom: Out there

Out there is a cry of anguish and pain.

Out there someone’s suffering for someone else’s blame

Out there, is someone who’s lost all sense of hope

Waiting for some kind of help without which he can’t cope

Out there lies a semblance of once healthy being

Who’ll die a slow and painful death

Unless he gets some seeing

But out there stands a person who cares for animals, true

Yes, someone who can make a change

That person could be you!

Original Poem by; Kenneth Caesar

Mubarak Malomo, Primary 6, O.N.P.S. Surulere, Lagos

Short Story: The brave princess:

Long ago, there was a place called Amanile Kingdom. They had a King named Ezem, he married a beautiful woman named Queen Iruka. They gave birth to a boy and a girl, the boy’s name was Prince Sobechi and the girl’s name was Princess Adaku.

The people of Amanile were happy people because they had a good king. Ezem became their king when he was thirty (30) years old, and served them well. He encouraged the people of Amanile to go into agriculture. They obeyed him and took agriculture as their major occupation. Some planted cash crops, such as; yam, cassava, rice, beans, groundnuts etc. while others specialized in livestock production.

King Ezem has a long farm. In his farm, he had a section for domestic animals and another section for different types of crop. He was the largest farmer in the kingdom. He was very rich and happy.

Amanile kingdom had one big river and five streams. There were lots of coconut trees near the river. There were also a lot of water plants surrounding the streams. The water plants make the streams look beautiful.

In Amanile kingdom there was a certain thick forest different types of wild animals lived in the forest. A particular snake also lived in the forest. The snake was treacherous and wicked. He had a way of hiding his wicked behaviours in order to appear to be friendly to weaker animals.

Although the snake pretended to be good, other animals in the forest did not trust him. They knew that he has evil. He secretly ate some young animals which included frogs and lizards. He also ate eggs laid by different animals. Whenever mother frog and lizard went on a visit, he would secretly eat their young ones.

To be continued…

Kehinde Feranmi, Primary 4, “A Prince with God” N/P School, Mushin, Lagos

Drug abuse

Drug abuse is a widespread problem that makes individual drug users the prime victims. But drugs affects all of us wherever we live and whatever we do. Drug abuse can cause serious physical and mental deterioration. The problem can be part of the family structure and making it hard for employers to run their business stealing from employers or individuals to get money for drugs causes pain and economic loss to the victim. The arrest and jailing of drug users and dealers put a strain on the law enforcement officials and criminal justice system. The cost of tax payers is enormous. The millions of dollars spent on hard drugs in America encourages criminals to do more.

Nevertheless, they have been found to increase the effect other drugs that depress the control nervous system, inducing alcohol, anti-histamines, barbiturates, narcotics, sedation, tranquilizers. Two of the main types of anti-depressants are; Elavil and Hefranil.

Anti-anxiety tranquilizers are drugs that have a calming effect on the control nervous system, relieves anxiety and tension and sometimes relaxes skeletal muscles. The drugs has been shown undesirable side effect and to be habit forming tranquilizer are usually dangerous as they intensify the effect of other depressant. Tranquilizers can cause coma and even death. Librium and Valium are the two examples of anti-anxiety tranquilizers that produce effects like alcohol barbiturates are often abused.

Anti-psychotic tranquilizers are major classification of drugs commonly used to treat serious psychiatric problem. The drug such as Therazine are rarely used non-medically because that does not produce euphoric effect still the drugs are sometimes preferred to barbiturates on caring agents because they do not cause physical dependence and even in large doses do not result in coma.

Thank you!

Ibrahim Jumai, SSS 1, Marjos Int’l College, Araromi, Mushin, Lagos