₦airaland Forum

afam4eva:
@Topic
Ife is the second indigenous university in Nigeria after UNN and UI which was the first university in Nairaland. They should use this celebration as an avenue to discuss ways to bring back the lost glory of IFE. I remember that there was a time people were scrambling to go to Ife among other prestigious schools but nowadays anybody i meet in Lagos wants to go to Unilag and maybe Ibadan and UNN.

While I admit the 'strike notoriety' affected Ife, I believe it is still easily one fo the Top 5 most sought after university in Nigeria. With such huge long-stay-in-school disreputation, it takes greatness for teh school to still maintain that spot.

The decline in glory is not an isolated case, it is a reflection of the fallen standard of tertiary education in Nigeria as a whole and like any other first generation university, OAU is also affected.

Yet I don't believe UI attracts more prospective varsity students than Ife today. Unilag, yes, because it is sited in a cosmopolitan city. UNN, like ABU, tribal factor plays active role. An average easterner dreams of UNN, average northerner ABU but average Southwesterner decides between Ife and UI, and probably Lag.

afam4eva:
@Jarus
How you take know say all those people go OAU. Is a school field included on the nairaland registration page?

It takes Great Ife to know one.

I lived in Awo hall from year 1-4 and no dull moment in that hall. Too lively.
Year 1(Awo Self Help); Year 2-4(Awo Block 7)

I didnt do aro but you can't help enjoying it.

[quote author=ola_pluto link=topic=866626.msg10156062#msg10156062 date=1328775776]My first day in Ife, I will never forget, My first lecture in Ife, I will never forget baba Fakunle, I remember my first evening at Moz, I remember a forgettable day at old buka, I remember risky burger in Angola for 50 naira. If not for OAU, I would not be as bold as I am today. Long live great Ife[/quote]Thanks bro.

Jarus - Economics 2001-2006

Ife made me and I thank God I attended that school because it is a good model of egalitarian society where nobody is above the law. Very free, challenging, competitive, motivating.

Now, on a lighter mood, I can't forget teh following events/places/people

Awo Hall
Aro
July 10(wasn't in school yet, but celebrated every year)
Will exam hold?
ewa day
Awo cafe
Awo common room
Maximum shishi
Iya egin
old buka
new buka
Fabroo
Expy
Jingo
Awo mosque
battle of the stone(lol)
ekaaro se fooso o
dapo
etc etc

Hey, Great Ife Nairalanders, our alma mater/school hits 50 this year and celebration is everywhere, not surprisingly, trending on Twitter for Lagos and Nigeria since yesterday. NL shoudl not be left out of the party too.

So, this is a thread to celebrate Great Ife, share memories and experiences etc,

1, Seun
2, Dayokanu
3, Jarus
4, Spikedcylinder
5, CyberG
6, Eastbay
7, Loma
8, Pcicero
9, TKB417

and other distinguished Great Ife Nairalanders, let's set the ball rolling.

Can N20 be paid via twitter too?

BTW: By The Way

Because Unity Bank MD did not steal N197b.

Ewo aiye, iya duniye

Ewo aiye, iya duniye

Culture, not Politics pls.

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Although I raked at their staff in their Alagomeji branch yesterday and have also had a couple of unpalatable experience with their ATMs in the past, including making me stranded at Abuja airport 2 years ago, I still rate them the best.

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Great environment
Excellent customer service
Great internet banking service
Less bureaucracy/procedure in opening and operating a/cs

You gotta love the bank. In fact, if I wanted to work in a bank, GTB is the only bank I can consider!

Faabu

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Ggee:
Can you confirm donations from GGEE on 1/2/12 by 4.16pm

Confirmed since 01/02/12

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Let's remember to be including our Nairaland ID too pls.

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It should be L.O.D actually, not O.O.D. As a Yoruba, oversight: LA****** for OLA****, hence used O, istead of L.

Faabu! These people will not stop at nothing to evangelize. Imagine someone just sitting down and scripting a story.

See fabrication. If anybody cannot detect this is pure lie,he can't detect anything else. The other time, it's Kuwaiti prince, today it's an ex-BH. The writer of that faabu is creative though.

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I suggest licences of the following media
organisations be withdrawn for deliberate
misinformation, outright lies and mischief-making.

1) Sahara Reporters,
2) The Nation Newspaper,
3) TVC, Lagos
4) The Nation Magazine,
5) Radio Continental (Lagos)
6) Daily Trust Newspaper

OP=PDP Media assistant!

espiritdav:
my first time on nairaland, Balewa was an intellegent ma, understood how to rule his country via manuals from the Queen, shchooled in England and downed 42 cups of Tea, although its highly irrational to generalise the North in terms of education, there have been quality people produced from the North.

This is another condescending fabrications you hear about the north, same we were fed Balewa was an illiterate, before modern tools like YouTube proved them wrong.

jay bee:
You can't necessarily use the select few to judge entire flock.
I don't think the argument is that nothing good ever comes from the north

Unfortunately, the argument by more than 90% of southerners is nothing good can come out of the north. Two is the tendency to rationalize shortcomings of the south/southerners too.

That is what I find nauseating.

Omoj'omo lo.

Ologbon lo le ye.

The stereotype about the North/northerners has been around for long, and doesn't seem it will end soon.

Tafawa Balewa, trained in England and with excellent command of English language and good accent to boot, was at par with the Ziks and Awos of this world in oration then, despite the latter duo being more schooled.

It still happens today, anybody from the north is dismissed as 'gworo-chewing, cattle-rearing illiterate'. Or isn't it funny that some people still call Lamido Sanusi illiterate even after he has proved himself at global stage, including delivering lectures at LSE, schooling American congress on how to deal with economic reforms, being the only speaker that received standing ovation in CFA global conference in 2011 etc? Funny? Isn't it? He is indeed illiterate.

Until those of us from the lower side of the Niger drop our arrogance and accept we are not the only educated and brilliant Nigerians, we will continue to receive shellacking from the Northerners!

Muslim fasting: 14 hours(5.00 am to 7.00pm). That's all. However, in some instances, when I don't eat sahur(midnight food), I do 21 hours(10pm-7pm next day)

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Isn't it funny how people, at the drop of a hat, bring down a company/people without the slightest proof?

Wale Tinubu has given his explanations, it is now left for the committee and you critics to prove he perpetrated crime.

He even said his company had written petitions to the govt in the past, complaining about shady activities in the system, but no action was taken. You critics did not see that.
You armchair critics also did not question why the conditions for granting oil importing licence(a number of retail stations, tank farms, and other assets) were relaxed in 2007.
You also ignored why the number of oil importers suddenly jumped to 100 plus in the last 2 years, and how companies that dont even have assets or even office(briefcase companies) are granted licence to import oil. Questions and more questions; Musikilu Majeed, NEXT's investigative reporter even did a report in the Next then how Diezani was just distributing licence to everybody, including her jeweller, Chris Aire, who now has a briefcase 'oil company'.

Yet, it is Oando that has assets all over the country and a decent company doing Nigeria proud in the global oil industry, you have to blame.