Post by Henry Emeka (@Emekus)
Emotional support even confident students get nervous.
Nigerian parents want to calm their children, pray with them, or encourage them before the exam.
The real truth It’s a mix of love, anxiety, cultural norms, and distrust of the system for decades
Nigerian parents overdo it, yes — but most are simply trying to protect their children in a high‑pressure environment with kidnappings and killings everyday we can agree to disagree we all want our children to be safe in the country of birth
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Laura Okobi: I strongly believe that as a parent you can't overdo when it comes to the children, you just do your very best the ones you have control over you take charge and the ones you don't have control over you leave it for God.
Henry Emeka: I might be wrong, but many of us did exams and jamb long ago. I was 15 then, going alone or with friends. No boko haram, no daily killings. Prayer is good, but it doesn’t stop the violence that has gone on since 1999. Nigerian parents are worried because government, police, and military can’t protec...