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If you want to support something, please be commonsensical about it. This isn't about money ish. How many companies pay their intern? Very few. With what you wrote up there, I sincerely hope you're not an editor with the said company.

They can't write a simple story, but an interview is conducted before employment? Easy with the lies abeg.

I am sad that it took this long before I caught wind of this nonsensical story being posted about TVC. It really is! I was privileged to be at TVC as an intern for round about 8 weeks and I have this to say "it was the best experience in my entire four years as a Mass Communication student in the University of Lagos". To those yarning gibberish about TVC, I've really got to ask you guys, what value did you bring to the table or you expect that as an intern who wants to learn you are excused from having common sense about what you want to learn about. TVC was the best place I could have interned and I keep telling 300,200 and 100 level students in my department the same thing. There, just like anywhere you want to excel, you are faced with the choice of detwrmining your own fate. While I was there, I was attached to a programme (Trends) and I worked with an outstanding young man who oversaw the production of the show (Damilola Oduolowu). Trends airs on Tuesdays, I resumed work on a Tuesday (Dec. 13,2016) and to my initial surprise, he sat me down, opened some of the previous scripts for the show and told me to write the script for that day. Even though I had written scripts for several productions in school, this was new, scary, knowing that I was about to write a script for a programme that did not just air in Nigeria but all over Africa and in the UK and some other countries, I sat for hours on a script for a show that only lasted about 45 minutes. He came back to meet me around 12. I was expecting him to trash it. He said "this is good!!!" And that's how we began. He only made minor corrections. Within the same week, I helped another producer scribble something for her show. I did voice overs and before I left, I edited some of the episodes for rerun and online. I was never asked to buy anything. In fact, the only time I went to help someone, I offered! She was sick yet she couldn't just ask me. There was respect. There always is respect for potentials. If Miss or Mr A did not go there with an empty head, they won't be used to do house chores. I know about wake up Nigeria and it's a premium show that started after I left. The only reason they will ask you to wash tea cups is for them to serve guests while they are in the green room like they do for the breakfast show. And that is something I will gladly do and get back on set. Develop yourself and don't just go to TVC to be a slay queen or King. TVC is for brains. Don't go there emptt headed. You won't learn nada. A dead brain can't actually assimilate nada, so please make sure your brain is not defunct! As for the media house that reported this, I hope you are not a major news outlet because if you are, i fear for the future of journalism in this country save for organisations like TVC, Channels and some finger countable organisations. I drop my pen here. And unlike those who will hide under the comfort of anonymity and be keypad warriors, I will put my name to it. Coz it's from my brain i typed this dope stuff.
It is Joseph Odeh (400 level, Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos)
Come to school in case you doubt, I'm quite popular. Pheew!