Agbada billowing like a campaign banner caught in the Harmattan wind. His followers drumming announce his arrival long before his ideas do. Don’t mind Kùnrùn-bẹ̀tẹ̀, kùnrùn-bẹ̀tẹ̀! The crowd erupts, not because they have heard anything profound, but because noise has always mistaken itself for substance.
If the University of Ibadan were a jungle, the AgbaScholar would not be the lion. The lion roars to announce its presence. The AgbaScholar, however, operates like a highly venomous snake, silent, unassuming, and deadly to the self-esteem of anyone who manages to snag a seat with them in the lecture halls.
Among various names generously bestowed on me, one appears to stand out. So fitting that it deserves being engraved on a plague. “Apa” is not merely a name, it is a distinction. An honour reserved for those who have mastered the act of vandalism.
Every new academic session arrives with fresh-faced students clutching admission letters like sacred scrolls, and us, the seasoned “fishers of men” standing at every strategic corner of the university, with nets fully spread and smiles fully charged.
Before Baba Daadaa came to Immortal Hostel, life here was terrible. The toilets were so bad that no one could even use them without gagging. So fetid to the extent that you could smell them from 1000 miles.
to choose our own leaders, we will remember how it felt to have leaders chosen for us. Maybe then, Enioriyo High School will truly become excellent. Not because of the Principal. Not because of the
cannot help but wonder if someday, the winds of reform will blow through the Republic. Maybe transparency will no longer be a myth, and fairness will be more than a rumor. Until then, the students remain loyal citizens, grumbling, laughing, paying, and surviving
Some ask, what next for Team Renewed Hope? Mainstream politics, of course! After all, if we can install one solar panel and take
simple benediction for all who reside within these halls, may your offerings never go sour, and may our hands remain free of cuffs.
community money. Dem say the transformer money wey people contribute, e and e friends carry am enter restaurant, drink Hennessy, and snap pictures for Snapchat. I hear say dem even go club, pop
