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 nicknames…Olinks…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 failure … For 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