Coming after the Sweet Sixteen of Bolaji Abdullahi, The Life Changer by Khadija Abubakar is the 2025 (and at most during the next two years), recommended Use of English Examination by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Boards. It is an in-depth plot outline (chapter by chapter) of the entire work. At the end of the summary, you can also take a quiz to check how ready you are.

Bint, a five years old girl and also the spoilt of the Ahmed family recounts her experience with her pesky social studies teacher; Mallam Salihu who usually thinks he knows every single detail about every single thing to her siblings. This however meant that he was in some way ridiculed when Bint replied to his query on how to say good morning in French and told him to say in French that that is very good. This failure by Mallam Salihu to interpret that is very good in French makes him walk out of the class taken by Bint and he never came back until after the break time. As she and her siblings were laughing at her story, their mother comes barging in their room to participate in their discussion. She then urges them not to ridicule Mallam Salihu but praise his humility to admit his ignorances by using the French mistress help to give Bint the answer to her question.

The entry of Omar with the news of his admission in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to study Law switching their discussion to more of a torrent stream of thoughts on life issues that worries Ummi children and most particularly to Omar who had just secured an opportunity to study Law.

Chapter Two

In this chapter, we are told of how Ummi who has secured an offer in the university has accepted the condition of her father to get married before graduating. But her husband chose to marry her off even before she went to university. She narrates of the time she met Salma, and how she shamefully talked mean things about the University official at the faculty registration office.

Ummi shown an unappreciated attitude towards the hospitality of Dr. Samuel Johnson, when she went to his office to receive her matriculation number. Later she came to know through her husband that Dr. Samuel Johnson was a very good friend of his and it was he who assisted him to straighten out her admission at the University. Ummi was shameful and she asked her husband to go to Dr. Samuel Johnson and apologize to him on her behalf.

Chapter Three

Ummi narrates the stories of the quiet one to warn her children and Omar in particular because he was her firstborn child and the only son who had just secured an opportunity to study in the university. Talle is a native and a resident of Lafayette. Members of the community knew the circumstances that surrounded his birth. Talle had lost his mother soon after he was born and he had not reached the age of twenty years when he lost his father and stepmom in a grisly car collision. This event added to his condition that he isolated himself altogether. Talle got so much lonely to an extent that he invested his enthusiasm in his job at the local government where he worked as a driver.

However, one day, his life took a theatric turn because people at the grocery store he visits to buy foodstuffs realized that his purchasing power has become above normal. The grocer complains to the District head, Hakimi, that Talle is now purchasing more than he can possibly eat within a week in days, knowing that he has no one that stays with him. Hakimi called Talle to the palace to do some questioning.

Talle however was unable to give a straight forward answer to a question and that gave him away. This was going on at the palace of Hakimi when the police came in with military escort. They informed Hakimi that Talle, one of his subjects is engaging in kidnapping, armed robbery and extortion. Talle was captured and he was taken by the police to his home where he had concealed his victim. He and Zaki were condemned to a few years of imprisonment and hard labor.

Chapter Four

In this chapter, Salma narrates how she managed to find her way into the university when she was barely twenty years old. Of importance to this chapter is her meeting with Dr. Dabo who is the 100 level coordinator at the time.

Dr. Dabo is a highly disciplined lecturer and he has never involved himself in any sort of underhand with any female student. He is record of treating his students Justly. He never misses lectures and his lecture policy is quite straightforward” Donot enter after I do”. But when Salma looked married spectacularly attractive to his office he abandoned prudence and was not aware when he asks her to become his intimate friend. Salma turns down his request instantly and this made him feel so bad that he regretted and swore never to lose guard again.

Salma was assigned to the most popular Queen Amina Hall. She did not initially like her roommates; Tomiwa, Ngozi and Ada. She despises the thought that she did not have a choice on who would be her roommate and yet they later on gel so well that they lived like sisters. One evening, Salma was coming back home and she met Habib and Labaran at Kwangila. They also offer to give her a ride to the school campus and as they dropped her, Salma informed them that her name is Tomiwa and even gave them the number of Tomiwa.

Chapter Five

At 8 pm the following day, Habib phoned Tomiwa and told her that they are outside her hostel and asks her to come out and they can go and hang out. Tomiwa chose to satisfy her curiosity when she left her hostel to go and meet Habib. Habib however was intelligent enough to realise that Tomiwa was not the girl he had given a ride to last night.

Tomiwa proved his assumptions right and recognize that Salma had provided them with Tomiwa contact. Habib sent Labaran to bring them some provision and Suya to eat and Habib also gave her fifty thousand naira and told her to give her roommate Ten thousand naira each and she (Habib) retains the balance of twenty thousand naira.

Tomiwa was impressed and as she went back to the hostel with the cash and much goodies. She and her roommate started to ululate and scream with delight as they relished the chicken Suya she bought. Salma felt a little jealousy that almost slipped into a division between her and Tomiwa but through the intervention of Ada and Ngozi, the issue soon turned into a
forgotten issue.

Habib and Labaran have been childhood friends. Habib took the road of education whereas Labaran opted to attend a driving school and as a good friend, he occasionally assists Habib with some little money with his salary as a driver at the local government. However, Habib made his friend his driver when he (Habib) became a politician to recompense his intermittent assistance in the olden days.

Chapter Six

The routine of school had started again and the girls are in their last year. It is quite intriguing to mention that although the four girls are engaged in relationships with men, they do not in any way allow their education to be affected. They are in their best form to the extent that they are all striving at graduating with a second class upper degree although they are pursuing different courses. To her misfortune, Moral philosophy one of the easiest course to pass happens to be a hard course to her (Salma). She, as well as other students did not attend classes in this course because it is a general course. She however goes to the tutorial a day before the examiner because over some years the lecturer handling the course has been repeating the questions stupidly with very little variation and so Salma had revised the past paper and went in to take an exam.

When the invigilator offered questions, to her demise, Salma noted that she was the only one who was not writing since the lecturer had abridged her expectations. After some time, she started harassing the man who sat beside her, Kolawole Abdul to help her. He reluctantly opposed this but eventually relented, although he scribbled some code-like answer to the former two questions. But when Salma was busy copying the notes of salvation, the female invigilator was wondering how Salma had gotten the sudden inspiration to write after she had overstayed more than thirty minutes without writing.

She slowly followed her and observed where she was writing about some few minutes before she moved her attention and that of the security man outside the hall. They had to make Salma sign the exam malpractice form and Kola and the following female student sitting on the other side were made to sign as witnesses. Unfortunately to Kola, when Salma was called before the panel she implicated him and he was also kicked out of the school.

Chapter Seven

This chapter narrates how Salma opened up to her friend, Tomiwa, how she believes that pleading with Labaran to speak to Honorable Habib might work on anyone that is important to assist her out of the situation she is in. To her misfortune, the only person he knows that can help is Professor Dabo.

Salma was so helpless on realizing that the only person who can help her is the same Professor Dabo who she insulted in her l00level when he asked to be her girlfriend. She desperately begged immediately that honorable Habib provide her with some money to bribe the chairman of EMEC who she termed could sell the soul of his mom to money.

Honorable Habib offered to give her some money but he asks her to give him something. She surrendered in his office itself. Having received the money Habib, she was equipped to meet the Chairman of the EMEC in a hotel and she only handed over one hundred thousand naira to one Dr. Mohammed Kabir as the Chairman of EMEC. She later found out at the panel that she had been cheated by Dr. Kabir who is an impostor. He is neither a lecturer at the University nor the chairman of the EMEC.

Chapter Eight

This chapter reveals how Dr. Mohammad Kabir acquired the title of a Doctor. It is a secondary school nickname. He worked at the university as an L.T Laboratory Technician but his people-friendliness earned him the attention of all the right people at the University.

When Salma wept to Labaran and told him her fate of how she had been duped by a fraudster. Labaran subsequently hired the services of Zaki to follow Mohammad Kabir and he retrieved three hundred thousand naira from him immediately after he had won big in a gambling game using the money he had stolen Salma.

Chapter Nine

In chapter nine, Ummi narrates the experience of Salim, the fiance of Salma, on the use of smartphones. One bad experience that nearly took his life away. On one of the social media, he met a girl called Natasha. The day that they have arranged to meet physically, turns out to be a terrible event. Salim had accepted to come and see her at about right to nine in the evening because she said that she would not be permitted to go out in the afternoon.

But the attendance of their meeting made Salim understand that Natasha was a bait for kidnappers and armed robbers. His getaway for the planted trap by Natasha and her gangs was divine.