FATSSSA PRESS -- University of Ibadan, Nigeria

A day like every other day Well, so you thought An activist, so you were Fighting for students’ rights your goal Student welfarism, your life On February 1st 1971 Oh! That wicked day You stood from your bed never to lie on it again Who knew you were never going to lie down on a cool and cozy bed Except in the grave Not even you If you had known what would happen! Oh! That day The flowers nodded, the wind howled Were they trying to tell you something? Or just doing their natural calling Nobody knows Death laid its cold and icy hands on you It put a period to your endeavours That sudden moment When the gun was fired and the bullet wheezed by Looking for someone to end Alas! It got to you You fell on that day for welfarism to rise You paid the ultimate price for our enjoyment You died in the struggle for better welfare services to students Oh! What an irony of life You fought for a cause you never knew you wouldn’t enjoy You c...

“Champions are not made in the ring, they are not born; they are made in the gym” It does not matter the number of motivational books you’ve read, you could as well have been told by your prophet that you are bound or even ‘cursed’ to be great, what matters is that you’re about to get the truth here today. I won’t have you deceived, not necessarily because I like you so much (I don’t even know you) but because I owe it to posterity to tell my readers the truth always. You might want to say that the truth itself is subjective but I dare say that you’ll be convinced this is the truth by the time you make it to the last word in this cluster of words some call article. So, what makes you great?  Is greatness inherited? Are people born great? Well, greatness is not inherited, material things are. People are not born great. You are not born great, but you can achieve greatness! Greatness is achieved, though some people are thrust closer to greatness by virtue of family backgroun...