Wednesday, 15 July 2015

JUST JIST

July! Usually is characterised with heavy down pours, cloudy-teary skies and alternates of strong shines of the sun.We’vefinally gotten here within a twinkle of an eye and the year is fast running out. But as we all know one thing that probably never runs out in this village is gist and we are here to serve it hot to you. We are taking this moment to appreciate the understanding of our dearly beloved readers in times past when we didn’t write………. thanks for supporting our ministry, we love you.

The events that have occurred over the last few weeks have left us in awe to the extent that our already gaped mouth has refused to shut.  It’s no more news that the US Supreme Court has accepted the rights of homosexuals to become legal but what amazes us is the product of one of our Eastern neighbours who came out to say “This is a victory for America”. He probably sounded like a child that never tasted “African breast milk”. Anyways, at the declaration ground, some couples did not even waste time as their testosterone driven brains signalled them to have a “victory make out“right on the spot. There was even this special one that called his mother and told her “Mum, your son can now have a husband!” Imagine if you called your Yoruba mother on a hot Monday afternoon to tell her that, ‘Omo’ is it not only the devil himself that would rescue you in this case?

The much awaited “hostel allocation” finally came to pass oo, after a botched earlier attempt orchestrated by Ogaismaila with the Jagabans of the school thinking they could pull a fast one on us all, plus our protesting brethren showing off their Ajebo-protest skills to mention a few activities that went down before the school in Jegaish fashion had to wade in with a committee on Hostel allocation.
 Karma also finally caught up with many but mostly the famed most troublesome class as they were stuffed four in a room contrary to the celebrated two at the heavenly OPH, and cold threatsfrom Bufu himself, people from the other side of the village would like to wish them good luck, at least they have their toilets to themselves now, and won’t be seeing things like shaved hair on the bathroom floor like how they did see them in barracks.  The most Savoury news from the allocation is that some marriages and divorces took place during the allocation proper as one of our ex-Islamic leadersdivorced his slim, sexy and sassy roommate, we are not sure if it was the other way round. There were also some rejects of the season, who everyone in their class practically refused living with; we mean both males and females alike (wow!) they had to be saved via merging them with other allocation rejects.  The ecstasy of the allocation came to a final climax when moving started, am sure you noticed abi experienced how “jonny just comes” of the school misbehaved as some chased the occupants of their rooms with paint while others chose verbal abuse as the best broom to sweep their new rooms.

It’s still a mystery of how some people can sleep, read, eat and watch TV at the same time; this is the case of one of our so called direct entry guys. On getting into the collegehe was one of the coolest guys, he also had an eye for the ladies, but after a couple of “NO” he’s selfesteem dropped beyond repair. This dude finally found fortress in the common space, you can take a short excursion to the new hostel around 3am and see this egbon sipping 5alive, with bowl of pepper soup while watching zee world, with his Anatomy note also in his hand. If only Our beloved Saalu still belonged to this clan, he probably would be at moshalashi or Conoil thinking about his life with eyes wide open, we can’t blame him sha, with jewo what do you expect?

That’s our some south-western states have been owing their workers’ salaries since like last year December, one of the states reported that they borrowed about N25billion from banks, Hmm! The money wasn’t enough oo, so their Agbe Governor whom actually bares a close resemblance with one of the elders of this village in the 400l old class had to come out and declare himself “Helpless” while the other one was just confused on what to do. But the current situation shows that our uncle from Kastina and his professor vice are going to give them small change to help their ministry sha. Hmm! Signs of better days ahead.

It’s was that time of the year when the leadership batons are passed from one hand to another, a whole lot had been said about this outgoing LASUMSA administration and how it has been the worst administration over the years and some group of people even compared it to the just finished tenure of Ebele at the Asoviila. Some described them as a bunch of flabby asses that are so lazy and light fingered.         So the process of electing new leaders started with our very own program titled “THE DISCOURSE” aimed at erasing every demon of bias from our minds.
The Presidential debate was the plateau stage of it, we were able to present leaders that could come out boldly and share creative and mind blowing ideas with us, such as partnering with MTN, GLO, and even the Almighty Dangote! while one even planned to partner His twenty two older siblings in other to raise funds for our beloved association. When it came to their“Role models” we found out that one believed in every prophet present on this planet and even beyond, the other was so engrossed in his religion that he made his personal Lord and saviour his role model. The aspirants were seating on a bed of coal that night as basic question started to sound like quantum physics and rocket science to them  to the extent that they started blessing us with gracious copious amounts of  grammatical blunders.
The Manifesto night was awesome OMG! The feeling was more ecstatic than every Grammy’s put together.  The night had been indeed cold as light showers ushered us into a new dawn, the presentations of each aspirants were amazing and awesome but one. This bros just came up to entertain us. Right from his cooperate dressing(colour blocking to badt; u should remember his check shirt and multifaceted tie) to his amazing dancing step, in the entirety of our lives we haven’t seen someone dance so passionately like that neither have we seen someone twerk at a manifesto night, he probably twerked his political destiny away.
 There aspirants got a taste of hell that night when the flood gates of questions were let loose, questions that would not make you regret why you were running for a position, this questions would make you regret filling LASU in your JAMB form, some specialist even went as far as monitoring their academic lives which allowed us to even discover that our sisisocial had justpassed one out of six incourses, while others such as the Nicodemus himself (the only man with two birthdays in our village) was giving the floor to express their indepth mind towards our aspirants.
 The climax stage was reached when our first presidential aspirant was called upon, Hmm! He was ushered in with the famous “champion song” and he took his tall bald headed long walk to the podium, he was later giving the opportunity to show us his dancing skills, he ended up looking like Sunny Ade trying to do a moon walk. The other aspirant who was looking all freshed-up must also have been expecting the “champion” song, his bubbles were bust as he was ushered with late Dagrin’s “KONDO” at this point the gods of the land had spoken without us even recognising it(by the way he gave some really nice dance steps evidently trying really hard to outdo his opponent thinking that was the way forward). They were later fired with a lot of acrimonious questions, at the long run we were able to deduce that one is a man of SIMPILITY while the other is a man of SENSITIVITY.
    The elections proceeded and the gods of the land spoke for the second time, the votes of our indigenes at the far side of Lagos said it all, as expected the result had gone in favour of all unopposed candidates. The boy after Saalu’s own heart was able to pull off a victory over MissSomething Wey AduGet.Miss socials eventually won, we even wonder how her opponent was able to pool his over a hundred votes with how he came out battered and hopeless the night before, while perhaps the better candidate won the General secretary elections, the more matured and “highly sensitive” aspirant one the Presidential elections, with the aid of his 22 elder siblings we hope he can carry out his plans which includes De-ratting the almighty barracks and SHC (mission impossible), The vice-presidential debate wasn’t a contest as girl power crushed and buried her opponent, we wonder what remains from that brother’s skinny body although we must give some credit to his 20 solid ideas.

Have you noticed the red light outside SHC these days? We hear it’s some of our bigger Ogas that have decided to bring this innovation to our door steps but have you given it a thought if every room decides to get a blue and green one what resemblance this hostel will finally have? Some say mini-ipodo is the answer.

 Finally, we pay our tribute to the 12 OOU students that lost their lives in a very disastrous accident some weeks back, we pray that they rest in the bosom of the creator.

  Disclaimer: This is just a work of a lonely and bored mind if you feel this write up or writer infuriates you or written with reference to you, chill……….., just look for a friend to discuss with at your next exams then watch you carrier thin out right under your nose.

AMITY MEETS OLINKS

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Hi everyone! Hope you are enjoying your week. For those writing exams this week we’d like to use this medium to wish them success. This week we want you to meet one of the most handsome guys in the 200level medicine class.
...olinks…
May we know you? ...I’m Afolabi Olayinka Olansile.
Do you have any nicknamesOlinks…Why do they call you olinks?It’s from Olayinka actually.
What’s your date of birth?It’s 29th April, 1990.
What’s your State of origin? … Ogun State… Where precisely? … Abeokuta, Ogun state… Where did you grow up? … Egbeda, Lagos … Ok so do you go there often? … Not really, I go there once in a while.
Your Religion... Islam.
So what’s your family structure like? ... I come from a nuclear family that consists of my dad, my mum and five children. I’m the eldest and I have four other siblings: two boys and two girls… What is it like being the eldest child? … It’s a big responsibility on me actually. It’s very demanding as you have to lay precedent for your younger ones and try to do better than your father.
So which is your best book? … I don’t really do much of books. I’m not a novel person either. So I don’t actually have a best book.
Who’s your best author? Everybody goes for me. All the authors are really doing well for me.
Best food… Anything with plantain actually, Eba with plantain, egg with plantain, beans and plantain.  
What’s your best colour? … Blue.
What are your hobbies? ... Hobbies, playing football firstly, I also play basketball, table tennis, I dance a lot also… You do professional dancing? ... Not really, but when I dance people appreciate me to a large extent.
What’s your worst fear? … Failure… Can you expantiate on that? Define what you mean by failureFor me failure is inabillity to achieve what you really want.
So tell us about your educational background? … I attended Jose Maria Primary School. I later attended Jose Maria College up to junor secondary school level, and then Bejide Memorial College at SSCE level. I then went to Babcock University where I attained my BSc in Microbiology. Before Babcock I did IJMB at Kwara Polythecnic. After Babcock I served. I went for my youth service at Abia state where I taught Biology and Agric to secondary school students. Thereafter, I came to LASUCOM via direct entry.
Why LASU? ...Emm, that’s quite a difficult question, I actually didn’t want LASU. I had plans to travel abroad to study Medicine but due to one or two things I think I just found myself in LASU.
Why did you come for medicine after having a first degree? …Medicine had always been the major course I wanted right from my childhood. I actually decided to study microbiology because I saw it as a step to applying for Medicine through direct entry. I wasn’t planning to study Medicine in Nigeria and the countries I was aspiring to go to accepted only students with first degrees… So your decision to study Medicine has nothing to do with money? ... Initially no but as time went by to be sincere it became monetary.
How has medicine been so far? … For me it’s not been so easy. It’s been a bit fair for now; I don’t want to say rough.
Can you give up med school for five hundred million naira? ... At this point, (laughs) I think I can give up med school for five hundred million naira because the major aim of studying alongside others is to make money. I actually also want to partake in charity but I think when you have money you can also perform charity in so many other ways, not necessarily by treating patients and stuff.
 What languages do you speak? ... (Smiles). I speak English, Yoruba and a bit of French.
So which places have you been to? ... Anambra, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Abia, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and I have actually travelled to Ghana.
What’s your best moment so far? … I think at every level there have good moments but one of my best was when I graduated from Babcock University for my first degree because I felt like I was going to rest.
What about your worst moment? I think it has to be when I am being restricted from things I love doing. For example, I was opportuned to travel out to play football abroad twice and in a way I was restricted from going by my dad. I felt like if I had been in another home, I would have been a better person and I could have gone after my talent.
What are your likes? …  I like honesty and sincerity. I love people that are real and openminded.
What are your dislikes? … I dislike people that are not straightforward. I dislike transferred aggression and people who don’t accept things the way things are.
Who is your best friend? … I have a best friend male and a best friend female. For the male his name is Lawal Moruf and for the female her name is Oshibera Adenike.
Best Hangout in LASUCOM ... Usually, you can find me at MPH and at pavillion. I like hanging out there.
Are you in a relationship? ... Yes… With…? With someone who I am not ready to disclose. I’ m in a relationship and I think that’s good enough… We’ve been seeing you with Christabel so is there anything going on between you two? ... Actually for now, there is nothing. We are best of friends, very close pals. … So she’s not the one you are in a relationship with? ... (Hesitates) For now, no. I don’t know what might happen in seconds or days from now, but for now we are just close pals … What about your relationship with Bola Aseyan?... Bola is my good friend, we tend to laugh and joke so we are just friends…
What would you do if you catch your girlfriend in bed with another guy? … I will just leave them for the moment then I would act according to my own principles. Definitely I would not date her anymore, I would just abandon her instead. For me, life is so easy and you know you should expect the unexpected from anybody.
 Who are the guys in LASUCOM that you admire? … Tobi Titiloye, Neyo, Kuti then my Ex-roommate Dr Ibrahim Ogunsesu.
What about girls in LASUCOM you admire? … Christabel, Sulaiman Olaide, Tope and I admire so many girls but I don’t really know their names.
Describe your dream girl… Ok, she can be fair or dark skinned. I think I love tall, kind of slim and shapy girls. I also like a girl with good character and with a nice attitude.
What would you want to change about yourself? ... errm….Probably to minimize my anger rate.
What’s your philosophy of life? … Life goes on. For me actually you have to keep surviving, you have to keep moving because life goes on.
What’s the best gift you have received? … A pair of football Boots from a friend.
Who’s your role model? ... Ben Carson. Benjamin Carson. At least I’ve been opportuned to see him at Babcock University during our convocation ceremony and he was there for a Seminar and stuff.
What’s your shoe size? ... 42…What’s your signature scent? … I use a lot of perfume so I don’t really have.
Do you have a favourite football club? … Chelsea FC.
Anything else you want to tell us about yourself? ... Triple Cs, I am cool, calm and collected. 
Where do you see yourself in ten years? ... I should be out of Nigeria making cool cash. I should be with my family, practicing medicine outside Nigeria and making money.
Your view about LASUCOM… Ok, I’ve been a bit disappointed with the way things are like you know the allocation things, the bed and bunks. The school has just been overestimated in a way so I think it’s not really a good place to be like that. The people are Ok and very caring to a reasonable extent apart from the superiority complex of seniors, the heirachy thing which I don’t really think I’m cool with.
What’s your view about LASUMSA? … LASUMSA Ah, They’ve just been there, they’ve not been working so well like that.  I think there should be a change.
Talking about the newly elected executive, what are your hopes? … I hope they would restore the name of LASUMSA according to the President elect, making LASUMSA into what it’s meant to be. So I see a better LASUMSA with enough funds to do much, I see a better LASUMSA with our new President and the other Executives.
What’s your view about Amity KYN?... They’ve been working well. I am so impressed with the programs which they’ve been organizing including the interview. And I think they were responsible for The Discourse which was really a wonderful one, kudos to them.

We hope you have had a great time reading our interview with Olinks. Until we come your way next week…                                                                                                              
LET’S LOVE ONE ANOTHER AND LET ‘TRUE LOVE’ BE THE WATCHWORD                              
                                                                                                                                                                  ………AMITY





Saturday, 11 July 2015

AND WE WON




“It’s the people’s victory, a victory of love, a victory over religious bias; we dare to say we won!”- AMITY

The LASUMSA elections, 2015 may have come and gone but it would surely go down into the annals of history as an epic tale, like every true tale it had full set of actors and actresses alike, it also possessed the sweet tinge of suspense, blackmail and mostly laughter but of all its many qualities the most sterling is that of the victory we saw come to pass at its very end.

This victory we speak of is not in relation or in relativity to the supposed victory of any of the candidates at the polls but a victory hardly fought for with sweat and blood, a victory born out of a revolution; it’s a victory over the primordial biases that had besieged many souls in the land, It’s the people’s victory, a victory of love, a victory over religious bias; and we dare to say we won!.

Our claim of victory is not far-fetched, although a few in some quarters would challenge this victory with claims of political undertones but ours is not a pyrrhic one as we all saw with our own eyes Christians and Muslims alike, men and women of all creeds and beliefs judge, criticize (both constructively and other wise) and speak publicly open brazen truth to men and women of same religious fronts (brothers and sisters as they would call them) who offered themselves for political service of the people, indeed it was a scene to behold in this our tale. They spoke of past incompetences of candidate, praised competence and defined future prospects of persons seeking elective-positions; it never did end on this note as the polls spoke more volumes. we must state here that the online AMITY OPIONION POLLS conducted failed as some political proponents seeking victories not representing the true wishes of the people sought and found an avenue and influenced the online polls via multiple voting, hence we (AMITY) differed on announcing the results prior the polls proper. Back to the issues on the polls; the choice of candidates who won may not be a true representation of the choice of everyone, but the trends of votes cast for both competitive positions and the unopposed positions represent to an extent the choice of the Christian and Muslim population of our college, they voted en mass; the highest turnout in recent times.

We must never forget in a hurry the results of the Amity survey carried out and how many had come to say an emphatic “No!” to biases of different shades and embraced with unflinching faith the pillar of competence.

Truth be said; all candidates voted in might not have attained the level of competence needed to lead the most intelligent set of individuals of society has to offer but we must say that there are a few good heads also elected that the fate of the association lies with.

The most emotional part of this victory was recorded when the results were announced; as we saw Muslims embrace Christians in joyful jubilation, indigenes shake non-indigenes in ecstatic euphoria ,presumed losers become winners by stretching fort and accepting the while results some even danced in the rain at the victory party.

At the end we all won, although our fight has not ended as we believe that a lot still lies undone as we seek to pursue the recommendations made at “#The Discourse” to the later, hence preventing future generations of tasting of the unsavoury taste of such forlorn traditions of times past.

We congratulate the elected candidates and salute the others and must state that we are watching closely as electoral promises must be fulfilled because we know them by heart.

And we won...

LET’S LOVE ONE ANOTHER AND ‘TRUE LOVE’ BE THE WATCHWORD ……AMITY                                                                             

AMITY MEETS FOLZ

Amity\kynview\pp\voliv\xvi:
 Hello! Lasucomites! The past weeks have been filled with the thrilling atmosphere from the LASUMSA elections and of course the pains of hostel allocation, with everyone moving and trying to settle in.  Anyway, following the success of the election we’ve resumed our normal business; which is getting you to know your neighbour as we bring to you the elegant yet dashing……
                 …..FOLZ….
Name: Akinslosotu Afolabi Abiodun
Any Nicknames: Erm ……Folz
What earned you that name: it was given to me by my friend Priscilla when we were in 100 levels (any other ones?) Hmmm! Not really, i was called “Flabby” and also “Afo” in my secondary school days.
Date of birth: 7th of April 199*
State of Origin: I am from Ondo state (where in Ondo state?) Ondo town (really? We heard stubbornness is peculiar to people from that side of the earth) *smiles* Not really ooo, because am not stubborn i just don’t like being discouraged.
Religion: Christianity
What your Shoe size: I wear 41/42 in case you guys want to get me one.
Hobbies: Hmmm! I like chatting, and erm being alone sha (so you are kind of a loner) not really, i also enjoy watching people play basketball.
Family structure: My parents and just four children (what’s your position?} I am the fourth child, everybody’s baby. (You must be suffering from over pampering) (Laughs out loud). Yea, sometimes but i have to the whole chores in the house, so being the lastborn is like a double edged sword with a good and a bad side.
 Educational background:  I attended legacy villa international school situated at Alagbado from my nursery days down to junior secondary, i attended ijaye-ojokoro senior secondary school where i got my senior school certificate, and I finally proceeded to LASU.
Why LASU naa: I picked LASU because my research stated that LASU has one of the best medical schools in Nigeria (wow!)
Why dentistry:  As a child i discovered i was gifted with using my hands and caring for people, and i feel this is where am most needed.
If not dentistry: Takes a long pause……. i would have gone for law (why?) because I am an advocate of justice.
Would you drop dentistry for 500million naira:Nope (why?) its my passion naa……Giggles……..
Tell us about life at Ojo: *sighs* in one word ojo life was “suffering” our calendar was jam-packed due to numerous strike sessions and we had to do a lot in a very short period but the hostel life was fun actually (do you miss it) ah! Sometimes I do.
Best colour: Purple (why?) simply because it signifies royalty.
Best food: None
Likes: I like plain, transparent and cheerful people.
Dislikes: Boring people, cheats and liars.
Tell us about your childhood: It was fun because i could get almost everything i wanted; i was quite troublesome though but got out of trouble easily.
What did you miss during your childhood that you wouldn’t want your kids to miss: Nothing really
Are you in a relationship: Yes (really, who is this lucky fellow) *all smiles*sorry it’s private seriously whats private about it?….. Its private.
Do you have a crush on any LASUCOMITE? Yep, jatto (seriously) he is a cool guy.
Celebrity crush: Brad pitt and Will smith….hmmm u kinda like your men bulky shey?......lol
You’ve been seen around with the Bakare brothers, both the elder and younger brother. Whats up with you guys: sighs…….. we are just cool.
Who is your Best friend: Akinlade priscilla
Role model: My mother
Source of inspiration: Dr fagbemi who happens to be my family doctor.
Favourite book: none
Favourite author: none
Favourite movie: Definitely Wedding ringers
Kind of Gbedu: Anything goes
Happiest moment: (pauses) i think it was the day i transited to LASUCOM.
Worst moment: The day i lost an aunt so dear to me.
Can’t be caught dead doing what:  Cheating in any form
Any Obsession: Smiles* sure ………its  chocolate!
Do you like sports: Yeah (what’s your favourite sport?) Basketball (how about your favourite team?) Smiles* i actually have none.
How are you finding LASUCOM:  Ah!...... It hasn’t been easy, am just blending into the whole system.
Best lecturer: Dr. Gbeleyi
Worst lecturer: I haven’t found yet
Best department: Anatomy (why) i think anatomy as a course is easier to relate to your own body than other courses.
Best hangout spot: Ermm, it has to be the pavilion with my friends, and sometimes alone.
How has living in Barracks been: it has been quite okay compared to people’s opinion about the hostel. 
We heard you had a clash with aunty shade in 400l old due to some allocation issues: Aww, it was a slight misunderstanding and i have apologised to her. We’re cool now.
What’s your take on the just concluded LASUMSA election: Well, i feel the election was free and fair, there was no rigging in any form. The results reflected the minds of LASUCOMITEs.
Whose camp were you on, were you Basophilic or Basophobic: Hehehehehe……*laughs* well i was on Oduwole’s camp but unfortunately he lost. I hope they work together and move LASUMSA forward.
A little word for our executive elects: i would like to congratulate them first of all, i also wish they can make things better in LASUCOM, and also include the freshmen at Ojo in their agenda.
Any future LASUMSA political ambition: No  
You in 10 years: (Pause) hopefully married with kids, also pursuing my dream as an Oral maxillofacial surgeon.
If you were made president of Nigeria for a day what issues would you tackle: Hmmm, i would work on the education sector and also try to generate another source of income apart from petroleum.
Guys you admire in LASUCOM: Tobi titiloye, Dr. Fabian, Douglas, Haruna, Ibrogen and Jatto
Ladies you admire in LASUCOM: Adaora, Kofo, Iroayo, Remilekun and Laide (500l).
Your view on guys in LASUCOM: i think they are not all the same and people need to change their perspective on LASUCOM guys because some are really cool.
Your view on ladies in LASUCOM: The same thing goes for them.
Your view on LASUMSA:  A good association but there is still room for improvement.
Your view on Amity: i think Amity is a great association and KYN provides a platform for LASUCOMITEs to know each other.
You in a sentence: I am a cool and passionate person.
Now…….That was folz for you….. Hope you enjoyed knowing her……till next week…
LET’S LOVE ONE ANOTHER AND “TRUE LOVE” BE THE WATCHWORD
………AMITY