Lecturer Distributes Boiled Corn to His Students During Lesson, Video Goes Viral
- A Nigerian male lecturer has become the talk of social media following a gesture he made to his students
- The lecturer in a video making the rounds was captured sharing boiled corns to his students during a lecture
- While many people marvelled at his kind-heartedness, others raised an alarm that it may be a gesture with a hidden undertone to it
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A Nigerian lecturer has become an instant internet sensation following his unexpected act towards his students in class.
The unidentified academic at the University of Uyo (UNIUYO), Akwa Ibom, was seen in an Instagram video by Instablog9ja giving out boiled corn to his students during a lecture.
Source: UGC
His deed was well received as the students excitedly received the boiled corns which came in yellow nylon. A student was observed in the video helping the kind-hearted lecturer in the distribution process.
What Peeps think of the act
The lecturer's act was greeted with a wave of mixed thoughts. There were those who argued that his gesture wasn't all that pure and may have some voodoo implications. Others thought the man's deed was worthy of commendation.
@adeoluolatomide said:
"Some lecturers are friendly, though. Not everytime shout.I love this."
@thia_quein wrote:
"When they start flying in the night now they should remember they ate boiled corn previously o."
@alexpaulnedu stated:
"Okay... Check well before eating. I don't want to start seeing UNIUYO students found ****** after eating boiled corn tomorrow."
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Lecturer brings crib to class
Meanwhile, Briefly News reported that a professor at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been celebrated on social media for his thoughtful act that helped a student in his class get time to concentrate on her studies.
Troy Littleton bought a crib and placed it in his office to help one of her students, a mother to a nine-month-old child. Posting the image of the crib on Twitter back in early May, the teacher labelled it his "favourite new equipment", saying it was meant for his student, Karen, to bring her infant child.
He quipped that he would also get to play with the little one as her mother works on her thesis.
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Source: Briefly News
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