FATSSSA PRESS -- University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Admission into federal universities in Nigeria never comes without a price tag. It is either the entrance exam is unreasonably tough or you’ll have to “settle” your way in. In other cases where you get admitted by merit, as in the University of Ibadan, you’ll have to pay in some other way – Stress! From the day you secure admission into Unibadan, you struggles begin! The good thing however, is that this stress won’t kill you but prepare you for the mainstream world. Besides, others have passed through this system and are still alive to tell the story.

In as much we can’t deny the fact that we are currently in the freshness of the new session, there's no gainsaying the fact that the session is gradually folding up. These two rather contradictory juxtapositions is in the light of the fact that this session has ended even before it began. This first weeks are what we call the beginning of the end. Although mostly spent in the hustle and tussle for accommodation cum frivolity and aimlessness by some, these first weeks are a major pointer to the possible outlook of the session as a whole. What happens in the first few weeks changes the whole outlook of the session.

NEW BEGINNINGS It’s only the beginning now …a pathway yet unknown At times the sound of other steps …sometimes we walk alone The best beginnings of our lives May sometimes end in sorrow But even on our darkest days

This topic might seem strange, but as strange as it seems, the reality of you unconsciously harming yourself is not far-fetched. Most of us unconsciously do things that will leave us winding up unhappy in life. Our world view is loaded with faulty ideas in its lots and it doesn’t take ‘too’ long for us to realize we’ve spent the most part of our lives living on the wrong side of life – some don’t ever realize this

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...