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Demdem:
JJCs are easily spotted in AWO hall. Even we know who the faj boys are when they come around. There is an aura that goes with staying in AWO that I simply can't explain. No dulling in AWO. Never come across any suegbe Awoite.

Yes, there is an aura that goes with staying in Awo. And it may even take years after graduating from before the 'aura' finally leaves.

I hardly guess wrong hall of residence of any Ife alumnus I meet. For example, when I joined my current company last year, the first Ife guy I met. From mere interacting with him for 3 minutes, I knew he was a Faj person (i was right), He also guessed right that I was an Awo boy.

You may want to read this article by one those

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/opinion/51314-great-ife-and-lessons-for-nigeria

Written by Yinka Odumakin Friday, 23 November 2012


MY friend,brother and colleague, Lasisi Olagunju, a first class graduate of our department, brought nostalgic feelings to me with his recent piece on the golden birthday of our Great Ife. We were the last but one generation who schooled at the proper Ife tradition and had real university education in Nigeria. It was also in our generation that the ruling elites commenced massive attacks on educational rights. We came to Ife in the departing years of the cold war and Ife was a serious ideological battleground in those days with sharp lines drawn between radicals and conservatives among the students and in the academia. We read widely outside the classroom and our level of articulation and activism compelled Professor Jubril Aminu, the then education minister, to declare war against the “Ife fortress” and lecturers “teaching what they are not paid to teach”.

Yet some of us were better citizens than we would have been today because we took time to learn what the school fees our parents paid did not cover. When it came to national affairs, you could hardly distinguish between our level of articulation as students and that of our teachers. One incident readily comes to my mind. A panel of the Nigerian Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies led by Major General Charles Ndiomu had come to Ife in 1987 to look into the causes of students unrest. Perhaps they were not satisfied with the study by a Second Republic politician did on the subject a few years earlier when he wondered on NTA Ibadan why people couldn’t understand the cause of students unrest:”How can students rest when they have to go to classes,read and do examinations? They cannot rest ke!”.

Back to the Ndiomu panel. It was meant to go round about 12 universities in the country, but chose to come to Ife first, may be in “recognition” of Ife as the national headquarters of “students’ unrest”. I represented the students while Prof Omotoye Olorode and Dr Segun Osoba represented ASUU.It was my lot to address the panel first.

I took roughly 15 minutes to let them know they were on a wrong mission as the real cause of unrests on our campuses was the irresponsibility of the ruling class they represented. By the time I was done, my ogas just adopted my submission. Ife was the first and the last campus the panel visited.

On another occasion, the Babangida regime had ordered the university to confer a honorary doctorate degree on pro-apartheid King Moshoshe of Lesotho who was visiting Nigeria. Somehow, a copy of the letter from the government landed on our hand. Don’t ask me how!

A post-graduate student of Ife then and a staff writer with now rested African Concord Magazine,Mr Dele Momodu walked into the Union building shortly after we got the letter.I handed him a copy of the letter with the following words on behalf of the students “ we shall not allow Ife to be turned into a certificate printing company where every Tom,Dick and Harry can get one at the command of a dictator”. It was UNIBEN that eventually gave Moshohe a degree. The students union elections of 1987 coming after the lifting of the ban on students union following the ABU crisis of the previous year is still very fresh in my memory.

I emerged from that election as the PRO with Fred Adegoke, my colleague in SCAP as General Secretary.Toyin Fasoyin,female,from the born again christian community was elected Vice-president.

It was the year the pundits had put the battle for the presidency as a straight fight between Segun Adeyemo, a.k.a US(now deceased) of SCAP and Olu Ojedokun backed by the born again Christians.But the third force MSJ to which Lasisi Olagunju belonged carried the day with Yemi Adegbite.

There is one coup that was hatched on our speech night that I await “further confession” from my brother Olagunju who has admitted he was in the “situation room of MSJ. As the SCAP candidate, Adeyemo took the microphone to make his speech, a large group started chanting “US o gboyinbo(US can’t speak English). Our candidate could not utter any coherent sentence again after that embarrassment! But in spite of our being a salad bowl,we were all committed to the best Ife tradition. There was not one dissent when we chose to honour the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi with Life Membership of our union at the peak of his battle with the IBB regime over the murder of Dele Giwa.

We conferred on him the Senior Advocate of the Masses because he was being denied SAN and we fixed the event for August 27,the anniversary of Babangida’s coup. For effect,we made Bamidele Aturu who had just rejected the NYSC award then in protest against the tyranny of IBB, the special guest of honour.

We had our ideological differences as activists but not along rival cult groups as we have today in universities. It is noteworthy that a lot of us who were in different camps then are today best of friends. We had a constitution that we used for decades without having to go through one amendment. We impeached student leaders who spent money outside appropriation.

Nigeria has useful lessons to learn from our Ife.

Our heroes then were men and women of values and not questionable characters that many of the unions on our campuses organise awards for these days. When politicians came to our campus,they knew they were coming on the hot seat as we took them to task on many issues.There was no such person that could enter our campus and throw money at us and get out in peace. Our Union had a Kombi bus then with an ordinary registration number.We never thought of SUG1(Students Union Government) talk less of blowing siren about town! We were not all about fighting against government though.We had fun to the full.

I can’t ever forget when we had a football match during a NUGA competition against UNILORIN at the University of Lagos. From Ife to the field of play at Akoka we composed different songs against Unilorin to flaunt our superiority as a first generation varsity. At the end of 90 minutes, Ilorin found the back of the net twice. We did only once. We were mute from Lagos to Ife.But as we entered the camus,it was Balinga(Deji Balogun now of LTV) our choirmaster who raised a song that made us laugh at ourselves”a ti leri pa ma na won o,ko to yiwo o(we had boasted we would beat them before the table turned)”.

We had the naughty ones among us who were full of mischief and always cracked us up. Prominent among was Bayo Ozolua who was in Dramatic Arts. There was this semester we were all busy preparing for the first day of exams and Ozula caused an uproar around 1 am at Fajuyi Hall as he started “ma se doju adura timi(2ce), two lo ni n ma ma kawe,iwo lo ni nma se assignment,ma se doju adura ti mi o(God don’t shame me for being prayerful,you are the one who said I should not read and do my assignments)

I feel so ashamed talking of good old days at this age..a challenge to all of us who experienced the great days to remember the duty we owe.

Happy anniversary all the same, Great Ife.

Odumakin can be reached through: yod2011@hotmail.com

cogitoErgo: Ife (OAU) realy lost steam! when OAU sneezes den, others including FG catches cold!

The radical tradition reached is peak in early 90's, but the Ife we attended in early to 2000's stil had a trace of 'cold-inducing sneeze'.

Afam4eva: Maybe i used the wrong word. But after that incident, a lot of applicants became wary of OAU. That event coupled with the incessant strikes that OAU experience made the school's popularity to wane. You can't compare OAU of today to OAU of yesteryears.

I agree Ife is losing steam, but it's not primarily because of that incident. ASUU strike/student unrest also contributed. Plus exit of world class teachers it used to parade in the 80's to early 90's.

That said, it takes greatness for OAU to still attract the volume of applicants it receives on annual basis despite all those setbacks.

I chose Ife in my UME just a year after that incident. To me - and many people - it was either Ife or no other varsity in NIgeria. We were undeterred by all those.

Demdem: If ur sister stayed in Moz that year, I surely must have come across her.

She was in Moz, but was Hijabian sister, a mosque-goer. In fact they were in Awo mosque when that incident happened. Remember Awo Mosque is beside the Awo cafe, venue of kegite induction.

Ola Johnson: I disagree with you on OAU losing steam after July 10 1999. After the attack students put more effort at dealing with cultists.

Yeah Maximum Shi Shi.

We enjoyed a cult-free campus. Woe betide you if you were caught having teh slightest trace of cultism.

I gained admission into Ife 2001, two years after.

I remember how my sister who was in part 1 then used to narrate what happened on that night of terror.

Well, I think we later students of Ife benefitted from the efforts of those heroes past, as we enjoyed a cult-free campus in our years there.

10k received from initials HO

1, Nairamar - 5,000
2, Toluth - 2,000
3, Tbaba - 5,000
4, PENMIGHT- 10,000
5, UZZIE - 20,000
6, Anonymous 1 - 3,000
7, Deols - 15,000
8, Largerwhenindoubt - 50,000
9, Anonymous 2 - 5,000
10, Initials HO - 10,000
Balance - 125,000

AbuHanifa: Salam alaikum, any info on Lagos Mainland Edition?

No sponsor yet.

lateef4me: Hmmmm,on the march again,would love to see some money go down the drain and the tears of a crying old shameless general

We did not collect the money from your father and we are not complaining. We are happy to waste the money again.

proudlysports: Hello Jarus and Gbawe,

It would be nice if this NL APC isn't just a 'jamboree'. If the originators of the 'group' can come up with concrete steps party supporters can take to make it stand out from other parties. The NL group MAY not have a say in party issues for now, however, this could change in future and all depends on the plans of the originators of the group.

My suggestions going forward

- a formal registration individual NL APC supporters (this could be simply by sending an email to a designated person)
- organizing regular 'strategic' offline meetings in various zones (this would depend on geographic locations of supporters. Please do not restrict to Nigeria)
- organizing online debates (in the mold of other NL debates) amongst APC intellectuals. Topics could include what each person thinks is the priority for the APC government, etc
- organizing offline debates. Same as above but offline
- organizing a NL Q&A (if not NL, any online forum). That is getting one of the 'chieftains' of APC answer questions online here on NL or anywhere else.

These are my suggestions for now.

Thanks
proudly9ja

You can always trust me for that. If you were around in 2011 we did similar things. One of the threads we used then is quoted in the post above. We raised about 0.7m on NL and sponsored jingles in 5 radio staions across Lagos, Oyo, Osun and Rivers state. We also organized debates and other intellectual threads. We also did polls.

This is just the first step, the first gathering, kind of townhall. We are coming to all those.

nwabobo: [size=24pt]Remember the following?[/size] How did it end?

https://www.nairaland.com/611008/report-efforts-buhari-bakare-team-here

We won 12m votes. For a party that waas less than 6 months old then, that wasn't a bad result.

Demdem: Please shut up with ur lies. When the General campaigned live at Isaac boro park here in PH, I was there.

Bro, I dey PH now. Hw far?

APC finally registered.

Battle line is drawn.

Let's start kicking out PDP from Nairaland here.

Guys, there you have it.

NL action plan
Like this post to endorse APC
Register your support with a post
Let's discuss way forward and strategies, both online and offline, on this thread.

And on a funky note, let's select Nairaland APC executives

Up APC.

I think we can begin forming APC Nairaland chapter

da student: Do you prefer to be the talk of the town or have a happy married life?

That's my point, if you understand.

Don't wait till you finish NYSC before you start applying. Start applying during NYSC.

Read widely on test taking and interview skills, practice test question, equip yourself duirng the service year.

Orikinla: You are another joker on Nairaland.

It is not how long you have met that matters, but how well you know and honestly love each other.
I did not wait for donkey years before I found my wife.

I agreed. Never by how long.

strangest: @Op, you are a LIAR, a big one. At your other post you said that you were married to a nurse


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HELP S.O.S- My Wife's New Job by snthesis(m): 8:35am On Jun 29, 2012
Hi everyone.
i need some serious advice urgently, my wife is a nurse she just got an offer for a new job, the salary for one month is enough to pay our houserent for the year. I am also working, but money from her side would improve our lifestyles- dats why i encouraged her not to resign.
the problem is my wife is super hot and i rushed into marrying cos i didnt want anyone to have her- i guard her seriously, but this new job is giving me nightmares -couldnt sleep throughout the night. she's still waiting for my approval, should i let her go or not?

p.s
she got a job to work as a nurse on an offshore platform- 3weeks on, one week off. and i've heard so much about those Hot engineers(and they also have lots of money to splash around), imagine my sweet angel alone with all those men."

OP busted, strangely by strangest, not by oyb, Nl resident police officer.

I spent less than 1m for my wedding, and it's a decent wedding, though not talk-of-the-town.

snthesis: tanx for the advice, but it is delaying the inevitable or making things worse cos the numbers i added will go up due to inflation.

mayb marriage can wait till i have money to throw away

Interest rate > inflation rate; so you still have the value.

I am in PH now. Someone just called one of the tax auditors I'm working with to inform him.

I heard the guy is a staunch pro-Amaechi guy. I thought the GEJ-Amaechi face-off had been settled.

Acted.


It doesnt mean I don't believe in angels though. I do, but one of their attributes is that we cannot see them.

Bokoharam: TOP 100 MANAGERS' ORDEAL: A SHAME ON ECOBANK NIGERIA!

Ecobank Nigeria yesterday displayed a show of shame when it transported its Top 100 Manager from Lagos, Nigeria to Lome, Togo by road.

1. Ecobank is an ECOWAS-spread bank with branches across West Africa.

2. Recently, it made a decision to identify and specially empower (by training) its TOP 100 PERFORMING BRANCH MANAGERS (out of over 500 branches in West Africa) in Togo, their regional Head Office.

3. About 60 of these Top 100 performing managers are from Nigeria, and as seen as those who are responsible for over 80% of the bank’s income/profitability

4. Ecobank decided to transport its best staff to Togo for a special training by Road, rather than by Air, thereby risking the lives of their best Managers;

5. To ‘add salt to injury,’ Ecobank rather than employ the services of top-rated road transport companies like ABC to convey her staff to Lome, Togo, chose to convey them via 2 (two) rickety Ecobank staff buses;

6. Around 1pm yesterday (Sunday, July 7th 2013), one of the Ecobank staff buses broke down, leaving Ecobank best hands in the middle of nowhere along Badagry;

7. The staff were asked to wait while another staff bus, which was never serviced/prepared for a long journey, was arranged to the scene towards Badagry.

8. As a result, Ecobank Nigeria Top 100 got to Lome by 1.20am the following day (i.e. today, MONDAY!);

9. Of course, a lot of the staff must have developed cramps from the long, terrible road journey.

10. Other countries flew their staff to Lome, but Ecobank Nigeria chose to ‘trek’ with their staff;

11. All the Top Management Staff who travel out of the country, always do so with First-class air ticket.

12. And lastly, it was learnt that, some of the staff offered to pay for their own air ticket to Togo (considering the risk), but the bank pressured them to go as a “team.”


Now, the questions are:

a) Is this how a company—let alone a bank—should treat their best Managers/staff?

b) Why would Ecobank not spend a paltry N40,000 to transport her best Managers by air?

c) What if there was a fatal accident, since road transport is largely not as safe as Air transport?

d) And what if they were attacked by hoodlums (some of the staff are ladies, pretty ladies I mean)

e) Did Ecobank not realize that these people were the ones generating the major chunk of their revenue/profitability before treating them this way?

f) Were they going on a secondary school kind of excursion?

g) Do this people value lives of at all?—Let alone those of their best hands?

h) ...etc


Is this act not condemnable? As Nigerians, we should learn to condemn evil because we do not know where it will ‘berth’ the next day.

Adventure.

N40,000 times 100 = 4m. (although return flight to Lome definitely costs more than that, so you will be looking of 80k per person = 8m).

That's not small expense for an entity that just acquired a bad asset (Oceanic). Moreso when there is a cheaper alternative.

You obviously got that from my blog: http://jarushub.com/2013/03/17/top-10-secrets-of-first-class-students/

dahmie2013: Thank u so much, that means the system I'm implementing this scenario on was actually correct, it deducted d withholding tax b4 allowing me 2 pay d vendor which made it 60000. Can u analyse how d VAT will be treated from the perspective of the vendor and also my own?

Treated as as how? The debit and credit?

MAYOWAAK: It is very likely we have met.I was once a colleague of your friend and classmate at OAU,Shakiru Adeyanju at an organisation in VI when your brother was the CEO.I don't want to mention the name of the organisation for obvious reasons.

Most likely.

I agree partially with the list. I have issue with the order.

Let me make an attempt.

Nigeria's Top 7 (Based on club performamnce)
1, Ahmed Musa (League-winning CSKA's highest goal scorer)
2, Kalu Uche (Turkish league highest goal scorer with 19 goals)
3, Victor Moses (4 goals in UCL/UEFA)
4, Brown Ideye (17 goals in Ukraine, 2nd highest scorer)
5, Onazi Ogenyi(Crucial goals for Lazio, super-regular at Lazio)
6, Imoh Ezekiel (12 goals in Belgium, nominee for Ebony Award in Belgium)
7, Mikel Obi (Decent performance in Chelsea)
8, IK Uche (led Villareal back to La Liga)


Nigeria's Top 7 (National team)
1, Mikel Obi
2, Victor Moses
3, Keneth Omeruo
4, Sunday Mba
5, Emmanuel Emenike
6, Godfrey Oboabona
7, Nnamdi Oduamadi (crucial, face-saving equalizer vs Kenya, hattrick vs Tahiti)
8, Ogenyi Onazi


OVERALL TOP 10 (National team, 60%; Club 40%)
1, Mikel
2, Moses
3, Sunday Mba
4, Omeruo
5, Oboabona
6, Emenike
7, Musa
8, Kalu Uche
9, Onazi
10,Oduamadi

Good of you. But please always ensure you don't have phsyical contact with anyone's blood, even when rescuing accident victims. Try to use nylon to shield your hands, if you don't have glove.

Good job. May God reward you.

jackbauersballs: Mumini Alao is the worst sports commentator ever

[b]"And theen..Garba Lawal with the ball...And theeen...he passes to Okocha...And theeen...Okocha is still with ball...And theeen.."

[/b]Watching Nigeria play rubbish back in the day was so much more annoying with Mumini on commentary duty

Complete Sports on the other hand, was my bible...Good job from him there.

Oh, knew him as a football analyst, never knew he laid his hands on live TV match commentating.

He's Nigeria numero uno football columnist.

Good one.

But, Mayowaak, your looks familiar o (not talking about our telephone discussions during the 2011 election).