An Exclusive Interview with Temiloluwa Popoola of Tehilah on TheFACET Blog.

   

   Hi readers,welcome to another insightful interview session on TheFACET Blog. I told you to watch out for the next star on TheFACET and not only is she a lady,she is also the beautiful anchor of a popular gospel programme that airs between the hours of 9am and 11 on sundays on the Diamond 101.1fm of the University of Ibadan. Let's get to know more about Tehilah.

Kitty: Hi beautiful, have I told you your smile is enthralling?

Temi: *giggles*..thank you very much Kitty.

 Kitty: You are welcome. So let's meet you please.

Temi: I am Temiloluwa Margaret Popoola,a 300level student of The Faculty of Law, the University of Ibadan and most importantly, the anchor of God's own gospel programme,Tehilah.

Kitty: hmmm,interesting. I want to know more about Tehilah and I'm quite sure our readers want to also,so what is this programme really about?

Temi: Tehilah is a gospel programme that airs between the hours of 9 and 11 am on sundays,  and like I often say,Tehilah is all about Jesus,it's all about touching lives. We bring ministers to talk on the programme,we discuss issues about relationships,things pertaining to youths,our lifestyle and most importantly our relationship with God.

Kitty: Great. So what is the reason for the name Tehilah?what does Tehilah mean?

Temi: At this juncture,I must say that Tehilah was already a programme on Diamond fm before I joined,so I didn't name the programme. It was already named by the management of Diamond fm and I thank them and God for the priviledge to anchor the programme.  Also,Tehilah means praise.

Kitty: Wow! Praise? Interesting..it sounds like it's Hebrew,is it?

Temi: Yes,definitely.

Kitty: What motivates you Temiloluwa?

Temi: God,his word,the holyspirit,the vision,his vision,people around me who make it a point to remind me and inspire me,the environment,family. It is just God,it is his work,he is the inspiration and I'm just his vessel,a medium and I am priviledged.

Kitty: What do you think about this present generation? Do you think we still have the burning passion for God?

Temi: Wow,I will say that some of us still have the passion for God and some do not. A lot of people that inspire me to do God's work more are the youths that are really on fire for God on campus. Some people still have the passion and that is why you find them going extra miles to do things for God. There is this lukewarm atmosphere in our generation today,youths,even adults are comfortable being church goers,ordinary christians without vying for the supernatural,without wanting to do exploits. Some of us still have this passion though,some don't while some have found it but are still reluctant to fuel it.

Kitty: hmmm..I think you are right. We all need  God and we can't settle for the ordinary.  So religion or God,which do you stand for?

Temi: God,I stand for God.

Kitty: Why?

Temi: I realize religion is something that causes a lot of conflict,it brings war,it divides,it doesn't bring love. When I go out to preach to people and they tell me I have come to preach christianity but I tell them this,"I have not come to preach religion but God's love". Religion will make you do a lot of things for the sake of doctrines but the love of God will compel you to do things for the passion you have for God and his work. So I do not think it should be about religion,it should be about God.

Kitty: Now,what is your definition of religion?

Temi: Well,I won't say I came up with this myself because I read a book by Dr Myles Munroe of blessed memory. He said that religion is man reaching out to God but on the other,this relationship is God reaching out to man. So religion basically is man trying to get God. But there is a better provision for God so loves the world that he gave is his only son and the bible says that God first loved us and he helps us show forth love too.

Kitty: So what do you have to say to people about Tehilah? Why do you think people should listen to Tehilah?

Temi: Tehilah is a wonderful programme and this is not just because I am the anchor now but because it is really wonderful and enlightening. We give good advise on practical issues,relationships,commitment,walking together in love,fellowship with the holy spirit and other topics. This is a programme everyone should look forward to as he or she plans the start of his or her week,both youths and adults. We also have recent wonderful gospel music for music lovers. Tehilah is a programme that students generally and not only Uites can relate to,we bring guest ministers that students can relate to and even allow the placement of calls so questions can be asked during the programme. Tehila is focused on Jesus.

Kitty: hmmm..inspiring! I would love to access Tehilah and I'm sure our readers would also want to,so please tell us how we can.

Temi: Thank you very much for that. Tehilah has a facebook page,you can join or like by searching for Tehilah on Diamond 101.1fm. You can also tune your radio to Diamond 101.1fm on Sundays by 9am,it lasts for just two hours and I'm quite sure you won't regret listening to Tehilah.

Kitty: Great. So apart from being a student and a radio presenter,do you engage in any other thing?

Temi: Yes I do,I anchor programmes,events generally. I love doing that and I have so much fun doing it.

Kitty: Really! Beautiful...you are really amazing.  Thank you Temiloluwa for granting us this interview and for giving us more insight into such an amazing programme like Tehilah. Would like to say something to TheFACET readers?

Temi: Of course. TheFACET is an opportunity for various campuses to connect and it is just what we need for people from various universities to bond and unite. Believe me when I say this is a good platform and so keep visiting and reading TheFACET. Don't just stop by,BE A PART OF IT. IT IS OUR BLOG!

   

 

 

 
  Thank you for reading beautiful readers,we love you! Watch out for another exclusive interview session with Kitty soon on TheFACET and look forward to a great february with TheFACET Blog..#Ciao

INTERVIEW WITH MR. AKINYODE TOPE SAMUEL OF OAU. (Popularly and politically known as TOPSY)

    

   Interview with One of the finest and most radical commrades in Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife which has been widely considered to be the most politically conscious institution in Nigeria.

   Akinyode Temitope Samuel who happens to be a public speaker; is a final year student of OAU, studying Law. He was a major political force in the last student union election, coming second out of eight contestants for the presidential seat. Prior to then, he has been a vibrant student activist on campus and has equally occupied various leadership positions within and outside the frame of student unionism.

   Temitope has also been more charismatic due to his stunning handsome and well-built stature, which keeps many wondering how he combined all the features in accurate proportions. In this interview, Commrade     Topsy explains some challenges and spills more beans on his experiences as an activist on campus.

   T FACET: Good Afternoon sir, Can we meet you?

Topsy: Good Afternoon, I am Akinyode Tope Samuel, a final year Law student in Obafemi Awolowo University. I hail from Ogbomosho in Oyo State, but I have spent most of my years in Ibadan and I base in Ibadan.

   T FACET: Sir, we understand that you’ve been actively involved in OAU student unionism; can you share some of your experiences?

Topsy: Hmmm…It’s been a tedious task, considering the fact that it takes mental alertness, bravery of heart, integrity of the heart, and the readiness to speak at all times for the defense of what is true and pure. Society often confers on us, the weak and lame mentality of conformity even to the worst and most dehumanizing things. In that instance, it takes a conscious rebirth of oneself to probe into, query and seek alternative to less than reasonable protocols or norms.

   T FACET: Do you mind shedding more light on ‘the society conferring the worst... things on us’?

Topsy: To put it straight, things are bad in the country which eventually penetrates into all sectors of the country; Education, Entertainment, Power sector, Administrative sector, just to mention but a few. Reasons for these anomalies have been largely due to corruption, embezzlement of public funds, lack of qualitative leadership amidst other things. In all of these things I’ve mentioned, you would discover that the problems of this society are caused by human beings themselves, not by God or machines. Now, it will take a corresponding, radical approach to silence or overwhelm these abnormalities in the system. As a result of that, confrontations between persons might just be inevitable. For example, as it boils down to our school – Obafemi Awolowo University, recently, the School Management in their own wisdom decided that because students were paying little for their school fees, they needed to astronomically increase the school fees, in fact the Vice-Chancellor emphatically said that if his grand children can be paying higher than the university students, that is enough reasonable ground to increase the school fees.  People like us, stood against it, giving reasons that, apart from the fact that it amounts to total wickedness to  increase the school fees just because you feel that it is too low, increment in school fees can never and would never translate into improved welfare condition of the students life. Today in Obafemi Awolowo University, our arguments have been validated; Power supply is epileptic, water supply is very minimal and even when there is water supply, you would be shocked that the primary qualities that makes up water is absent, because the water has color, has odor and has taste, and this was the exact opposite of the condition of the university when the university was paying less, at least five years ago when I was in my 100level. But because some fellow student activists spoke against this demonic and astronomical fee increment, they were suspended, and that explains what the society tells you to do, to keep shut and not say the truth.

   T FACET: Can you give examples of some of some of the victims of the suspension.

Topsy: Commrades; Juwon, Engels, Sammie, Olamide, Johnson etc.

   T FACET: We understand that you are a very active member of various organizations on campus, can you share some with us?

Topsy: I am a member of Pacesetters Movement, which is an ideological group on campus. I am a member of Levuz Writes’ Organization. Equity Chambers (Faculty of Law), Pearl Foundation and some other organizations.

   T FACET: How have you been able to combine being an active activist with all these organizations, some of which you hold major offices?

Topsy: Versatility is a product of diligence, it requires being serious, understanding your passion and following suit with commitment and of course time planning.

   T FACET: What do you see concerning the February 14 Nigerian Presidential elections?

Topsy: Like I would always say, that the leadership of a people is a reflection of the people themselves, while I reckon with the fact that in a democratic society, electorates would rise and fall in making either right and wrong decisions, but right now, my emphasis is that the time is ripe for Nigerians to be thoroughly conscious of casting their votes not in the line of dubious, religious, ethnic or federal character sentiments but in the rational realm of competence, sound leadership qualities and integrity of the contestants.

   T FACET: What is your take on the coming OAU Students union elections, which would be in few months’ time?

Topsy:  Strictly, I adopt my previous comment on the Nigerian general elections.

   T FACET: How come you’ve been able to manage a very handsome face, despite the well-known rugged and ungentlemanly activism in OAU campus? And have you been facing challenges from ladies based on your Tall, dark and handsome features?

Topsy: {Laughs} Student Unionism does not equate thuggery, and being radical does not mean being a rascal. In any case, a union that is for the students and by the students should be richly intellectually garnished, and for that reason, it should be more of intellectual battle and not physical battle which is being fought with ammunitions.  {Laughs again} I have not been having any challenges with ladies.

   T FACET: Thank you sir, for honoring our shortly informed interview.

Topsy: It’s all my pleasure. Thank you for interviewing me too.

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UNI OSUN SAGA!!!

 

   All glad and happy were the students of the college of humanities and culture,the Osum State University,Ikire campus after getting messages on our phones that our campus had been declared opened again by the governor of the state after 5months of vacating the school premises due to a sort of riot caused by some students in the campus for some just cause though..no doubt a lot was vandalized.The news was like a perfect christmas gift to us all.
   I myself was very happy the day we were asked to vacate school,atleast i would be free from school work again thinking it would only be for few weeks not until I was almost forgetting how to hold a pen and write at home.
   But we got the shock of our lives when some of us went back to school to check what's happening.I went to school on that day and the issue is this,"if you dont have a teller for the damages fee of #30,000,you would not be allowed in except you are a fresher" See gbege oh!! #30,000 each students?? They wan rebuild our campus ni,abi they wan start to dey share free food??!!Na war! But we thought those that actually started the riot and caused the damages had been brought to book,they should ask them to pay nau.wetin we fit do?!Hmmm. As if that was not enough,we are asked to resume school officially on the 5th of January,2015 and start exams immediately!!! Abeg wetin person wan write after 5months free of lecture? Personally,I tire!
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Article - New Year, New Ermm...

What?! It’s 1st of January already^? Have I been alive all this while? Doing what actually? And why am I still a size 14 by the way? Blablaa..

   Okay it’s January itself now and I don’t seem to have a name for this feeling I have. A little excitement for the New Year, a little guilt for the previous one... yeah some funny kind of complicated. Finally, I find my long lost resolution note for 2014 and it pretty much exposes some shades of ‘sin’.

Now resolution is that thing a number of us do in the excitement of each season, especially as its spirit leads. Some of us are yet to grasp how it really works, but we do it anyway. It’s a funny kind of tradition because we get to make some pledges we may not even remember the next day.

   So my note tells me I’ve not particularly been a good girl. Yeah, I’m still a size 14, and worse, I still have an automatic crush on every fine guy I see, including my boyfriend’s popman. But that’s like the more forgivable part of it. The really ‘ungood’ part is that I haven’t been much of the Samaritan I pledged to be. I haven’t quite reached out to a hungry child as much as life has beautifully reached out to me and there is no excuse for that. I’m not particularly rich but I’m not particularly poor. So I do know when to unburden my purse.

   Talking about me,  I don’t think I’ve been much of the self-centered type, else I’d have done better for myself than I have the past year. I dreamt quite big for the year but managed to achieve quite little. My dreams are not beyond me though, the lazy part of me is just epic.

   So now I stare at my note and it stares back at me. It sure deserves an apology, so does the previous year. And I figure the one good way to welcome the New Year is to stick to my promise of old and make my resolutions count rather than scribble again on a piece of paper in the name of a funny tradition. So to my wonderful 'twinnies' who are also in the business of pledging first then thinking Later, or even forgetting, the resolutions should go beyond what every other person does. Make the words count.