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By Olatunde Akinyemi It is the pride of most parents to see their wards all dressed up in khaki and boots. A symbol that the child has scaled through tertiary education, and successfully served the country,  a matured individual. For some,  it signifies a bonafide citizen of the nation, ‘omo ijoba’ , as my Yoruba friends will say, a bragging right.  Many years ago, as a Primary 5 student, my uncle came home on one particular  day in that popular uniform. I didn’t know what course he did in school, I didn’t know what school he attended,  no idea he had graduated, all I knew was that he had gone to serve. My grandmother prepared a feast to welcome her son home after a successful year at  Abia   State . If pride was a person, that was my grandmother that day! Her son was then a full graduate and so it was time to enjoy the fruits of her labour. As joyous and blissful as this scenario may seem, many Nigerian homes experience the opposite whenever  Na...