World Poetry Day: Subtle Lessons Learnt.
The 21st of March every year marks World poetry Day. It was declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 1999. This day is earmarked to celebrate the reading, writing, teaching and publishing of poetry throughout the world. (wikipedia). The members of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) CDS group of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) was at Basic College Badawa, Nasarawa local government area, Kano State to celebrate the day in accordance with goal 4 of the sustainable development goals. The students were cooperative. They gave answers to most of the questions asked. After the talk on poetry, we had corp members and students read out their poems to the audience. Thereafter, there was a spelling bee competition. I was particularly concerned about a student who was very popular among his schoolmates. Hassan was cheered up when he was called out for a spelling bee competition. He should be the oldest student f...