pluto for real...I didn't. I watch guys do it.....but you know, I was a class act, so I could not be caught doing aro....though I kinda enjoyed seeing other kids do it.

I believe you. In that case, yatssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tunjikrown:

Yea i remember the moremi girls ..........old , angry, sad but beautiful....... ! they re always jealous MOz ladies just because of the RUSH we do give them! we also called the babieless mother............they re just too old look 4 a serious relationship. great ife !

Moremi girls are into Aristo biz big time! That's why they have no time for small small boys like you.

IAH:

Moremi girls are into Aristo biz big time! That's why they have no time for small small boys like you.

never! its not like we were so small for them, they were keeping us and also going for their big Daddies.because they saw future in us not in their big pot belly aristos.

Its nice communicating to fellow great ife ex-students

sure, its always nice, i mean just that feeling of back in the days in ife.

GREAT IFE!
One thing I learnt from IFE was to cook beans. Awo hall is all about beans!!

Come to think of it, Seun did you play chess in Ife? You look kind of familiar.

I'm very bad at chess, so it couldn't have been me. Did you know any Fowe James Yemi?

Then, maybe you went to Ifako International.

Ife like most other colleges offers you unforgetable memories. I did learn how to make Awo beans myself. I stayed in BLK2 Rm89 in 1994/95. was fun. I never stayed in Angola. Then lastly, I stayed in Post graduate hall then Quarters.

With all the interests that Ife alumni seem to have when they mention their institution, how do you guys think we can give something back to our alma mater?

Firstly it depends on your/our respected location. I know in DC and Giorgia there is an alumni association. If you're lagos on the other hand, there is also an alumni there too. So you could give money to the alumni closest to you or give manpower. I mean this is the quickest way to be a part of the Ife post graduation impact.
On the far end, depending on your pocket, you could arrange an academic motivational speaker and go do a conference there. There are quite a number of ways to help great Ife.Once again depends on how much help you're able to give and in what particulars.

wow this is a great thread. brings bak a ot of memories and that song, men, greeeeeeeaaaat ife! only on egreat if in the universe jo.

anyone remember when x block in moz got burnt?
if you were in white house then you would remember angel and the dreaded chem 101, 102 and all of them
i remember fst bread
does anyone remember when motion picture hit the school
and all those alutas and the madness of trekking to town to protest.
amphi theatre and the wacko dugbe lectures?
i could just go on and on.

nikinash:

wow this is a great thread. brings bak a ot of memories and that song, men, greeeeeeeaaaat ife! only on egreat if in the universe jo.

anyone remember when x block in moz got burnt?
if you were in white house then you would remember angel and the dreaded chem 101, 102 and all of them
i remember fst bread
does anyone remember when motion picture hit the school
and all those alutas and the madness of trekking to town to protest.
amphi theatre and the wacko dugbe lectures?



i could just go on and on.

All familiar stories to me.
The famous white house, moz, aluta, road 7(unfortunate jambites), archi studio, all great memories!!

Truly IFE IS GREAT!!!!

Oh yea, not sure about the burnt X block, guess I was done by then, I remember fst bread, its actually called Tech bread. I really do want to know if anyone here was on campus when it was said a girl took off her head in moz, it was a hit story(rumour) back then Moza girls were then branded eyori yori. Please Hola if you were around then.

nikinash:

wow this is a great thread. brings bak a ot of memories and that song, men, greeeeeeeaaaat ife! only on egreat if in the universe jo.

anyone remember when x block in moz got burnt?
if you were in white house then you would remember angel and the dreaded chem 101, 102 and all of them
i remember fst bread
does anyone remember when motion picture hit the school
and all those alutas and the madness of trekking to town to protest.
amphi theatre and the wacko dugbe lectures?
i could just go on and on.

Lol!! I remember angel, that
And those dugbe lectures! From Ajose for CHEM 101 to BOOC for BOT101 to Amphi for PHY105. Men, I stopped going for lectures when I realised I couldn't be rushing and pushing, I no fit do wahala
Do you remember Sports Market too? And the Sports complex where people used to go and pray. And motion ground at night, where lovers used to go and kiss.

Great Ife

Yeah, I remember lawn tennis court, sports complex. Very good for praying especially when exams are close!!!!!!!!!

Motion good is especially interesting between 11p.m and 3a.m,

You see more males than females at Moz hall in the evenings,

Congress meetings for aluta at Amphi when exams are getting close (strategy for getting more time for study)

Lots of memories from GREAT IFE.

hmmmmm,
Greatest Ife,
OAU: Only African University
OAU: Omega Alfa University
OAU: Obafemi Awolowo University

It's interesting to read what u people have been writing, I guess u people have not forgetten "Channel 10" in white house,

I was lucky to live in 3 hostels in Ife:
Angola hall while I was a Jambite: Stayed in Block A room 7 in my first semester. I'll never forget the disturbance from the table tennis board opposite the block. NFAs play table tennis 24/7 on that board. We were about 21 staying in the room originally meant for 4 (then modified to 9).
Second semester was in block H room 3. Thanked God so much that I moved 'because I started getting serious about ma studies.

Spent 3 sessions in Faj. Last session was in Awo Annex. I won't foget the kolo boys in Awo:
Ex-Awoites: Do u remember "Igbo wa siga wa o!"

A student's mum came to look for him from home in Awo Block 1, and the poor mum was embarrased by the cat calls and whistlings of the aro Awo boys.

I won't forget seeing people jacking their books right from first day of the semester and yet they perform woefully in exams.

I won't forget Awo and Faj Cafe at night during exams with people reading with candles.

I won't forget that I was sent home to cool off for at least 2 weeks every semester after pertaking in demonstartions aka "Aluta".

I won't forget the night cult boys chased a new member (who could not stand the initiation rituals) was pursued into the OAU central Mosque. The boy ran out of the bushes and wanted to seek for protection in the mosque. Awo boys were called to the rescue.

I won't forget the fearlessness and boldness of Awo Boys standing strongly against cultism.

I will surely ever remember my stay in OAU, whitehouse, Elec/Elec Engineering.

Hey guys,the person that initiated this,did a great thing.One can neva forget d life at O.A.U.its indeed a great School.Pete 04 said awo boys do say 'come out and lets start yabbing ourselves',But i think u got it wrong,cos on many occassions,awo boys do say 'ejade kama bu iya ara wa'.How can i forget d day i entered awo wearing high heels and cos am a very slim person,i just heard an awo guy'se omo niyii abi oparun'probably d person dt said it back then will read this and how can i forget that i was just lauging.
Eh Eh why is it that anytime,any day, awo boys are always cooking beans?u wont see them cooking rice or whatever,its beans.
I cant talk about all,ranging from when Africa and others were killed and VC(in awo)couldn't talk cos of the shock.everyone knew him to be brave and tough but, ,the beautiful structures, check out law,admin and social sciences buildings and Spider house, amnd then to the well composed school anthem which am so proud of.
Tunji congrats,u made it.Its feyikemi.

ve u heard that at d moment they are home cos d moslems fought with awo boys cos they were watching mojos(Indecency)so i think its a yoke dt needed to be broken cos if its not aluta it will be something else wot can we call this?

Another closure in Ife, terrible!!

Thank God am out of that school.

The recent closure was bad and when i learnt the reason for the closure, I did not beleive it and asked from some of my 'aburos' who are still undergraduates.What business is it of the muslims if the Awo boys are watching Mojo? Does it disturb their none wacthing it?
I lived in Awo from my second year to my graduation and I have come to recognise that much of the things that the so called "Awo boys' do are just hype. If you do not join them,they will not force you (except you are a jamibite who is afraid that if you dont come out for Aluta, you will receive shi shi).For agroup of people to go and tell adults like themselves not to watch a film they so choose is the height of disrespect.

The best that can be done is to appeal- if they have nothing better to do with their time.What is coming when they resume is that no one will address this and the individuals behind it because we are always afraid that fundamentalist will cause trouble if they are singled out for rebuke with out the other religion being reprimanded as well.

Whe I was in part three, it happened to Sports hall boys and muslims too?Cant issues of faith be communicated between adults without a resort to violence?

Great Ife , Great Ife, GREAT GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

I just love Great Ife. There is no school like great IFE.
If I am to take JAMB again, I will still chose GREAT IFE.
You can go to IFE and be the same again. There is this change in you, your orientation, attitude to life e.t.c.

IFE is the place where group classification is the least in all the Universities in Nigeria -- I have being to most of them. The physical and relationship difference btw the rich and poor is minimal.

When talk about physical structure -- Oduduwa Hall, Ajose Lect. Thearter, Engineering Faculty Building, Admin, Law and social science Faculty, the only Bukateria complex in the world, the sport center e.t.c. I love IFE.

AsIFE Graduate, you are always proud and bold to say it to the world. Although some of my friends call that arrogance. But it is just that you sure of the stuffs you have gotten from Ife.

I enter IFE in 1988 and finished 2004 (a year loss to BABAGIDA- ATTIRU JEGA ASSU strike) with Second class upper in Agric. But I am now a Cisco Certified Network Professional.
From Agric. now excelling in IT. That is just part of IFE training, where you have to take courses outside you major line.

As per the recent closure, i'm surprise becos IFE was never known for Religious intolerance. Infact for it to have happened in AWO HALL. I don't know what to say. Watching PORN is not illegal but in my mind it might be immoral. IFE is just that society where you can do anything provide it is illegal. It is a mature society and an avenue to interact with diff. type of people from diverse background. I once stayed in same room with a ElKISH, CROSS BEARER, ARISHINA and I enjoyed their company though we differed in our religious belief. I am a muslim.  If the school rules and regulations has nothing against watch adult film who are they,The TEBIKI or what do they called themselves to impose the will on others.They  should be dealt with according to the rules and regulation of the school. Infact the mosque in Awo Hall is not suppose to be there, but was allowed becos of the student convience seek.


@feyipepsy, I am an AWO Boy to the core. the tebiki should not be allowed to go scout free. AWO boy must uphold their freedom of association and Expression. OR Has AWO Boys become Fajuyi Boys?. AWO boys arise and fight for your dignity.

GREAT IFE, GREAT IFE
I love GREAT IFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ife na Ife anyday.

From the first day I came in and observed how the structure seems to appear as we drove up road one, I knew that I was in for an adventure of a lifetime.

An Ife graduate is loved,hated envied and all. I know it. We entered a hall and everyone knows it. I was at wedding last weekend and the schoolmate of the bride (non Ife alumnus) who were more than us in numbers were so jealous when it was our time to take pictures.Of course, the Ife anthem and everyone wished thay had gone to Ife.

In 98, during my service year, I had come to Lagos for a visit when the University of lagos hosted the NUGA games.They just could not understand how Ife people can come from their school and oppresss them in Lagos.We played them in the final where they outnumberd us at least twenty to one.This is how it went:

Their team had arrived earlier than us and parked their bus at the car park (good boys).The Ife team arrived as if they owned the Onikan pitch and parked right infront of the spectator stand with the shouts of great Ife!!! (oppression 1)

When it was time for the anthem, the good Unilag footballers took the Nigerian National Anthem with their Ife counter parts.At the end of the anthem, great ife footballers and the few alumnus and supporters that came sang the old anthem and the great Ife Anthem (oppression 2)

Where we sat, they almost skinned us alive,trying to tell us how the University of lagos was ahead of Ife , bla, bla, they could not understand that we not being students could be so loyal to our alma mater.

Our supporters club skilled in traditional and situational melodies overshadowed the UNILAG team to the point that it took the intervention of the police and the 'area boys' who were 'in charge' of Onikan (in whose corner the Ife supporters sat after paying homage through 'idobale') to save their neck.

The Ife team lost by two goals to one and the unilag students thought they had the upper hand and they rushed back to their schools to prepare the ground for the final humilaition of the 'great Ife ' team that beat their basketball team.

Then the Ife joker;rather than sulk and moan the loss,they began a celebration that was an adaptation of a popular praise song 'a du pe ko ju meji lo' ( we give thanks that the defeat -of our team- was not more tha two goals) and made the trip back to the UNILAG campus and Auditorium annoucing to the bilwedered UNILAG students that Great Ife can not be defeated!

you will see it in every eyes and in the statements of all Nigerian undergraduates;Ife is different and it is either they acknowledge that or be humbled by the reality.

Great Ife!

men,you guys will kill me with the huge nostalgia of the greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaateeeeeeeeeessst ife.Is it the babiless mothers,the eficos,the angolan jambites or the wonderful cumpus life.l just dont know what to say.Ife is da school.Does anyoneone know the alumnus websit of great ife?

Great Ife,
Just stumbled into this thread and evry detailed experience brings back a lot of memories to me. A graaduate in Accounting, but I remember aall that I went thru to graduate, almost got an extra year cos of number issue but thank God. To all those that have similar issue I feel you on that one. I rememebr all the aluta, movies in amphie theatre (African theatre), what of dapsy boy, funny. Anyway those are things that keep the memory alive. Missing evry single aspect of ife. Am just grateful I went in and came out successfully alive cos I was an epitome of Great Ife stress back then.

This is a shout to all GREAT IFE graduates .

May your pocket never run dry of Naira.

Great Ife!

Had the best yrs of my life at that asylum!

Resided in Moza in my 1st yr,
well angola really but spent more time in Moza, I went to an all boys school
so I couldn't handle the fact there were so many girls cramped into one lil' place!
Everyday was xmas!

2nd yr I was at Awo, that was great, thats where I learnt all my rudeness! I remember
tormenting all moza's that dared walk through from new buka, that was brilliant!

3rd yr I was in Fajuyi, learnt the art of growing up, also discovered Moremi!

4th - 6th yr was still in Fajuyi, we had special rooms then so we didn't need to go
to Moremi, they were only too happy to come to us!

Remember the beautiful structures, the alutas the new buka the old buka the dugbe
lectures the squating the 24hr day the exams the tutorials the health centre the hospital
Oduduwa hall amphi theatre the shows the sport centre fellowships the footy matches the basketball
the tennis the SUB the cults could go on 4ever!

All adds up to a wonderful experience, def some of the best yrs of my life.

Great Ife!!

great greater greatest ife, how i hope i was there in ife those days when the school was uni-ife . but the saddest situation happen to me considering how many time i have battle with jamb 4 the pass five years but all to no avail but i still want to school in ife and i will keep on till i find myself in ife ,plz is there anybody in this room that can give me the info about pre-degree i mean basic in ife i still want to school in ife plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz helppppppppppp meeeeeeeeee beggggggggg jambbbbbbbbbbbb ohhhhhhhhhhh/, greatest ifeeeee

Greateeeeeeeeeeeest ! Akokites! Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

*_{runs away quickly b/4 am jumped *}

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