OAU-Ife Students Thread: Great IFE!

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.

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

Its nice communicating to fellow great ife ex-students

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.

Then, maybe you went to Ifako International.

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?

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.

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.

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.

ve u heard that at d moment they are home cos d moslems fought with awo boys cos they were watching mojos(porno)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?

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?

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!

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.

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!!

Greateeeeeeeeeeeest !  Akokites!       Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

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