One would be wandering the correlation of Agric science and yellow sperm as if it was an innovation discovered during the school sessions. It was indeed! Boys were ingenious and dynamic. Here we go again...
Whatever has a beginning must surely have an end. After aggregated 6 years in secondary school, plus an extra one term, we were more or less the only set that spent long days and time in secondary school due to educational policy change in the Nigerian system led by Prof. Babatunde Fafunwa. Our juvenile delinquents as well generated some nuisance value beyond the cultured environment we were schooled in. Presumably, we were getting anxious and cautious of being delayed in the same environment for a longer time. Anyways, beyond morals and our stay in secondary school was to write a final exam that will determine our future.
Being the first set to write the new SSCE exam, there was a bit of tension in the air.
On this particular day, we were to write agricultural science exam, it was discovered the question papers were not enough for all the students. Fortunately, those in the front were served and had already read the questions, only for the invigilators to discover half of the pupils did not get question papers. The papers were retrieved and were returned to the WAEC office for reconciliation and verification. Trust the other students without the question papers left their seats to know the written questions.
There was pandemonium and hullabaloo inside the hall. Even the ones that saw the questions had to do a quick review with others to be sure of the right answers. One of the school English teachers was hell-bent on not allowing boys to move around the hall and wanted decorum. Chai!!, the hell was let loose on her. I saw 'wanton tongues' physically that day. She was disrespected and disregarded. Guess what, the following morning, boys were waiting for her by the appian way to the school chanting and calling her names. The one that stuck was 'yellow sperm'. Edo Olawale claimed there was a day he was kneeling down, been punished in the staff room, the woman was sitting inappropriately that he could see the stain of yellow sperm on her pants, that she possibly just had intercourse. The hunter became the hunted. She cried her eyes out and her head was so swollen and that was the last time she stepped into the hall to invigilate. She was baptized from that point to name: 'Yellow Sperm'. The name started echoing from a far distance and different quarters in the school. Eyin boys!!!!
The irony of it all was the Agric questions were actually 2 in 1. One was inserted in another. That was the reason question papers did not go round.
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