24th Oct. GIST
Editorial
AN APPEAL TO MY DAD
DISCLIAMER! This article is fictional. Any resemblance with real life happening or correlation with office, persons and officers is regretted by the author. The author died after writing. Read and ignore the content.
My Daddy, Daddy, I am really crossed with you oo, but as a well cultured child one must not forget to remember that one must not get angry with his daddy even if his daddy is acting like a child. Daddy, our graduates reported you to me o, and I am not here to confront you since I am not comrade Tobby neither am I Hon. Destiny Adodo. Daddy, please pay attention to the title, I am only here to plead. My immediate senior colleagues who are presently graduates of this institution have confirmed that most of them will not be going for NYSC in July but November, and others February, (not excluding English Art) Daddy why the omission, must one wait for two years before NYSC?
Knowing full well that they were the first to conclude the second semester examinations last session, more so, the rush and pressure the university management put forth on the departments to get their results ready in no time was too much. The deadlines were terrible, several lecturers spend sleepless nights marking scripts in order to meet the deadlines and ensure that the most cherished students of their department make the NYSC in July. Now, all have come to not as only few departments are mobilized for NYSC this November.
Daddy, don’t you think you are being pitiless when students that gained admission the same year, say 2005, graduated with all their results intact the same year, and some students, based on their department will have to wait for close to a year before going to serve their fatherland. It gives undue advantage to some graduates above the others. This is discrimination at its peak and injustice at its zenith. If not that people will say I am being rude, I will have said that you are a bad fellow or unintentionally wicked.
My Daddy, information reaching me has it that no student that has just graduated without an extra year in faculty of Arts and Education was mobilized for July NYSC. Daddy, if not that I am obliged to respect you, I would have said that you lack common sense. Daddy, I know that all our graduates cannot serve at a time, and we have specific numbers we can mobilize. My loving daddy, why didn’t you use your common sense to divide the numbers among the various faculties and even if you don’t have common sense, you should have consulted with someone that has common sense at least and probably the person will have suggested such. My Daddy, as your bio-academical son, you may want to say that the Departments or Faculties didn’t meet the deadlines. Daddy, I am the opinion that strict sanctions should be melted out to HODs of Departments and Deans of faculties that do not meet the deadlines.
Daddy, some were even saying that not all our graduates will be mobilized in November. Daddy, what are you doing? Don’t let me say, what type of dad are you? Instead of you to lobby for more numbers to be mobilized for NYSC, you busy yourself doing next to nothing. Some of our graduates are yet to collect their ‘to whom…’ and you sit in your fully air conditioned office sipping tea.
My daddy, don’t let me reject you as my father, anyway this is an appeal not a demand, neither a command nor an impolite request. Well, if you think I am impolite, you too don’t come out publicly to say things you don’t intend doing. If you do that, that will imply that you a deceiver. I am not signifying that you are a deceiver, neither am I denying it.
Daddy, time is life, don’t just mobilize one department, and spread the number across all departments based on the number of their graduates. I am appealing to you now, so that some will not start criticizing you in future and once the criticism starts, you are on your own oo. I love you Dad. Bye for now!
Agent 505, Future initiative clean by Abiola page 3
On the 10th of October 2010 a campus group called Future Initiative organized 10/10/10 Global Work Party Tagged: “Pick, Clean & Green.” Speaking with the Gist, a representative who prefers to be anonymous said, ‘Following the lead of a global organization (350) to celebrate global warming and environmental solutions across the world on 10/10/10, the above named organization in collaboration with Green on Africa, staged an environmental/climatic change rally to arouse the environmental consciousness of the citizens of Ile-Ife and Nigeria at large.
The rally took place on 10/10/10 at about 3pm in Mayfair town, Ile-Ife in Osun State. It was graced by many patriotic O.A.U students and indigenes of the community covering the following scope/geographical areas; Mayfair, AP, Lagere, Post Office, Ife Market and O.A.U Campus. The rally featured protests & requests in form of placards, picking of waste, disposal of waste, distribution of flyers, sensitization of community members on green policies and environmental sustainability.
The demonstration also addressed the following Environmental/climatic problems with relevant solutions which are the Emission of CO2 into the atmosphere thus; affecting the Ozone layer, Deforestation; continuous felling of trees, congestion of Vehicles on our roads, and poor waste disposal.
The goal of the day was not to solve environmental and climatic crisis at a glance but however, to send a message to our political and non-political leaders that “if we can get to work, they can too.”
‘Lastly, the rally was signed off with “a green party” to celebrate environmental/climate solutions and the success of the action. The demonstration received a lot of accolades (prayers) from market traders, co-students, and community members. It is apt to state that the rally was staged with the support and subventions from patriotic O.A.U students.’ He concluded.
In another development, Agent 505 was out with a community project called santario which means sanitation in Spanish. The group did clean up toilets, Bathrooms, Walkways, Faculties and Department. The project according to the project manager Kunle Adewale was primarily meant to instill discipline amidst students, restore sanity and reduce the burden of the cleaners in OAU community who are old enough to be our mother. The cleaning commenced on on the 9th of October and was concluded on the 16th.
DRAMA AS BAN LIFTED By Femi Page 1
It was drama all the way on the floor of the parliament last week Tuesday, 19th October into the early hours of 20th, as the parliament and all officers of the union were resolves. The meeting which was supposed to commence by 6pm commence at around 9pm, the honourables now see as a normal event to start sittings hours after it had being initially schedule. The Quorum was suspended and the remaining budgets treated.
The budget of the Director of Social, Mr. Kayode, was also controversial to an extent as the gist gathered that Mr. President, Paul Alaje was out on the floor of the parliament to say that, Kay wasn’t able to account for his budget properly due to the fact that Kay is a student of English Language which by implication means he has poor arithmetical ability, but his budget was approved after much ado about nothing.
The gist gathered that all budgets were approved because it was evident that everyone wanted the ban on politics to be lifted. As Adama Joshua, the speaker, said on the floor of the parliament, ‘Let heaven fall, this house will be dissolved tonight.’ The admonished the house to go on a twenty minute recess, which eventually extended to over one and the half hours.
The session commenced with the speaker calling for nomination for electoral petition committee first and the president saying that he should start with commission first. The speaker refused to adhere and nominations where made. The speaker, Joshua stated that members of the Central Executive Council and Hall Executive council will not be allowed to nominate for their constituency since they were not voted into the house by their constituency.
However, the speaker recognized Taiwo Thomson, the Secretary General that made self nomination for the Faculty of Arts and Ugo C. Ugo, the Sport Director, which nominated Tobechukwu. The agitation of some honourable and some members of the gallery was loud as there was power outage.
When power was restored, the nominations of Tobe and JJ Thompson were cancelled and both sent to their seat. When the nominations of Arts and Law were called again, Tobe as an honourable came to nominate himself and JJ was nominated by an Honourable from his faculty. In the end, Taiwo Thompson emerged the Chairman of the electoral petition and he gave a proud sarcastic glance to those that didn’t want him in.
The setting up of the Electoral Commission was another drama. The hallmark was the nomination for social sciences as the former welfare director wanted to be in the commission. However, his dream didn’t see the light of day as many were accusing Lampard (Falekulo) of owing the union some amount of money.
As aspirants shouted and some almost fought, the gist news agency decides to keep their names confidential as it may not do well on the aspirant. Speaking with the gist, Olamilekan Michael, ‘this is politics at it peak and it was practiced high level of betrayer, the nominations were not done by merit, but by affiliation. I don’t want to raise issues here but I wish that ACJ was with their camera. Well it is not the members of the commission that will determine if the election will be free and fair but vigilant OAU, even Iwu cannot rig election in OAU if OAU students are truly ready to ensure their votes counts. Yet, I am surprised that people were desperate to be in the electoral commission and some even took offence in the speaker not nomination them. One is in the commission to serve, if by chance I request to help you carry your bag and I take offence in the fact that you didn’t allow me to carry it, then, it is evident that I have ulterior motive.’
Miss World University By Demola lower part page 1
Started with the Nigeria National Anthem and commenced by minutes before 1am. Some of the outfits where such that could make the devil out of an angel. The lady that was meant to co-moderate was putting on an handkerchief that only covered two inches below he pubic region and Awoites through the intellectual aroism asked her to ‘do ba le’ and she couldn’t because of her outfit and her high heel shoes and she wasn’t allowed to co-moderate. Miss Oduduwa also graced the occasion and was one of the judges. There were fourteen contestants, but the contestant wearing the ribbon Law wore a safari and wore a black tube revealing her nipple due to the absence of a brassiere. More so while she was walking off the stage her safari loosen up. EFC ribboned contestant’s outfit was also not too good as her split gown was almost getting to her sex organ. The contestants did chorography of ‘wakawaka’ by Shakira. The contestants were asked to talk on tropical issues.
According to Francis Olawale Ige 300 level student of Phamarcy said, ‘The winner, Miss Adegboyega Abiola a student of public administration 200level, was given 50 thousand Naira and a brand new mini laptop. The first runner-up was Miss Seun of English Education and the DJ was a world class DJ, nice show.’
Speaking with the gist, Durojaye Rachael said, ‘The programme was fun, but too vulgar and the show didn’t fit OAU community. Just too vulgar and no little thanks to Awo boys who wanted to savage the situation.’
FAJUYI HALL HONOUR FAJUYI Page 3
The Hall executive Council of Fajuyi hall on the 15th of October organized a seminar in honour of Major General Fajuyi. The event that was graced by the wife of the deceased, Mrs. Eunice Fajuyi, a Lieutenant and the Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Micael Faborode. The event also witnessed the award given to the former hall warden, Pastor Ojo for his invaluable contribution to the hall. The Lecture was given by a professor who represented the Vice Chancellor of University of Ado-Ekiti.
The Hall master Dr. E.T.O. Babalola appreciated the entire awardees and attendees the and appreciated the Fajuyi hall executives for making the programme a reality. Jamaal, the hall Chairman was specially applauded by the Hall master.
Speaking with the Gist, the Assistant General Secretary of the Association of Campus Journalists, Izudike Andrew said, ‘This is the biggest hall event for this semester, the hall executive council and Management got it right this time. They deserve to be eulogized, not only for the insightful lecture, but also for the refreshment.’
Blissful Conjugal Bliss by Afolabi Oni Page 4
The Deeper life Campus Fellowship, an arm of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Ife Region has stage a soul lifting and highly interesting marriage seminar which is primarily to guide and lead the yet to be married into choosing the right person, clear all confusion about marriage, eradicate divorce as it should not even be a subject of discourse in a Christian home and any home, more so, celebrate love in Christ.
The programme has being anchored by the Regional Coordinator of Ife region, Pastor Festus Adedokun and Sunday 24th of October witnessed a up to the heaven exaltation and the testimonies of the happily married to the elicitation of the congregation. Speaking with the Secretariat coordinator of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Bro Babalola Oluwamiyiwa said, ‘The issue of marriage cannot but be subject to discourse, since God himself instituted it and the Devil is very interested in it. One must start planning and the aim of this programme is to ensure that the home is characterized by happiness and not tales of regret. The programme however continues this Sunday that promises to be highly interesting, the tales of woe will change to tales of elation,’ he resolved.
FAJ HAS A LEGACY OF FILTH… Dotun By Innocent Page 4
An elder statesman and of the Association of Campus Journalists who was a previous executive of the association describes Fajuyi hall as having a legacy of filth. Mr Dotun said, ‘The issue of most politically conscious hall of residence can still be subjected to debate between Awolowo Hall and Angola hall, so is the debate for the smallest hall of residence will be between the ETF and Fajuyi hall. Fajuyi Hall is unbeatably the dirtiest hall of residence. The hall that had the most effizous guys who always dress at their best. However, the main blocks of Fajuyi hall are badly in need of painting and the drainage properly taken care off.’
Mr. Dotun continued that, ‘when I was the General Secretary of ACJ as a student here, Fajuyi was better than this. These litters of fallen trees, the water spillage, and the spirogyra painted building were not the case. I know the hall management is doing her best, but from what I have seen so far, I appears to be the worst.
GIST FEATURE STORY page 5 and 6 two pics
Woooooooo
In Obafemi Awolowo University, the just concluded Awo Hall week is tagged woooo, a popular slang and Yoruba word meaning ‘look’. Oni Afolabi, a 400 level student of Education English takes a brief excursion on the subject matter.
October 4th was a day I cannot forget. I saw a lady, in a micro-mini skirt and a tube passing through Awo hall, with the most part of her breast revealing and giving us the radius and making it easy to calculate the volume. ‘wooooo!’, ‘woooooo!’, I could see Awo boys shouting and pointing at her. Before we knew it, others came out and all attention was directed to this poorly dressed lady. The lady felt embarrassed decided to run and out of confusion the wallet in her hand dropped. She was between block 7 and 8 and appears to be going to Mozambique hall. Awoites shout at the girl to pick her wallet which she found difficult to. By this time the three floors of block 7 had over 50 audiences and the Kitchenette of block 8 had about 80 students all out to be entertained. Block 8 is in front of block 7 and there is a field between the two blocks which the lady was in a dilemma of whether to pick her wallet or not. Comments like, ‘they sent you her to read, you came here to look for boys,’ ‘did they force you to wear it,’ ‘don’t you know this girl, she is a post graduate student of department of prostitution,’ among others were pasted.
Eventually the lady stoops to pick her wallet and Awoites won’t stop shouting, ‘wooo!’ as more guys came out to witness the scene. After she picked the wallet, they started singing the popular birthday song for her as Awoites escorted her across awo shouting ‘wooooo!’
The Gist news agency, got the attention of the World Chief of Kegites Club international a 400level student of political science, Fayoyiwa Adewale said, ‘Wooo!, is the theme of Awo Hall week for this session. Awo hall is a peculiar hall and it is the reign slang that has always being the theme of the week. Two sessions ago, Jasi was the theme. Last year was oni fe tee. Awo hall is always creative as they will always represent it in a pictorial form. The graphics is two Awoites and a lady was passing with a blessed rear view and whose gown was 10 inches above her knees and one of them pointing at the lady saying wooo! and the other telling him, mo un ton se o (be conscious).
Jimoh Omotayo, an Honourable member of the students’ representative council, OAU, a 400 level student of History said, ‘I is a new diamention from OAU students in general and Awoites in particular in getting peoples attention either to an occurring event or a particular issue. Wo is used to gain the interest of the populace. Wo has two perspectives, the socio-entertainment angle and the political perspective. Wo in the socio-entertainment dimension can be used to insult people in order to correct some behavior in them and eradicate social ills as immoral dressing, stealing, among other and more so, to commend some people that have dressed very well and elegantly and by implication means, give attention to this guy.’
Tayo adds that, ‘In the political sense, this is a period of politicking in OAU, and Wo is invaluable. If one is rooting for a particular candidate and they will shout wo implying give him audience. OAU is based on the rule of majoritarianism and if congress decides that a particular person should ask an important but thought provoking question, they will all in unison shout wo! and the moderator must recognize the person else, the organizes may be tactically frustrated with the unending shout of woo until the person is recognized and not even the moderator will be heard as their shout will over power the micro phone. It is common to OAU but domesticated in Awolowo hall.’
However Deborah Nwokeforo a masters student of Political science has a different view, She said, ‘basically, wo! is meant to elicit fun and they feel that such act makes the environment lively, but to me, I makes me uncomfortable visiting Awo hall. I am the shy type and I wouldn’t want to be embarrassed. I have never entered Awolowo hall since I have being on OAU because of this wo. For me, it is not a good thing and it is better if they stop it.’
Literary Gist by Afolabi Oni A4 page 7 with my pics
The Flirt
It was around 11:30pm on the Saturday 23th of October 2010. I had to walk out of ACJ secretariat pondering and asking myself series of questions. No, it can’t be. Of course she did. Early that evening I was called a womanizer by someone that knew little or nothing about me. Jesus! What a mess. I quickly called her back to ask how many ladies have you seen with me and she couldn’t count. I play, joke, talk to and enjoy the company of ladies, but not ‘ladinize’ of rather womanize.
I was still suffering from that unbearable headache and I felt the whole world coming all down on me. I had to leave the room to take a walk as I was suffocating and I needed fresh air. The heavy cub hammer wouldn’t stop hitting my head hard. I remembered my past and that my pastor telling me that I have special anointing to ladies. I laughed, then, cautioned myself with a hot slap on my cheek, as I spoke angrily, ‘They are calling you obnoxious names and you are her laughing.’
Aola is just a friend that I know truly cares about me, she is a sister and I appreciate her every present, people see us together and I tell anyone that cares to listen that there is nothing between us and she also support the claim as state this claim in her presence. Yet, people call me flirt for that. One said that they use to with fair skinned Kristiloluwa as though, a friend that nothing canal can ever happen between us. Well people will remain human and they cannot but keep thinking what is not. Am I that morally bankrupt and terribly liquidated? Do I really give people the impression that I am cheap all because I joke and play?
The cool air swept across my face and I got a sms alert. I cannot but smile when I saw that it was 777, jut got a transfer of 200naira from home. Nice one. I had exhausted all the money in both my account and wallet for the past 5 days. Feeding had being impossible or made possible by Aola. Just last weekend, I was boosting of over 20,000 naira, but all perfectly exhausted in two days. Well, I can easily highlight the things I did with the cash, but the likes of my GP will always disbelief that I don’t have money.
I hurriedly dialed the number of this lady that make my heart beat faster than ever, the only angel that refused to call me on my birthday just because I didn’t call her on hers. Always hard or rather too hard, but indeed she is strikingly gorgeous. As the phone rang, I tried to pretend to be relaxed but was already having a sweaty palm even in the freezing cold.
Finally she picks, ‘Hello, good evening,’ I asked as we exchanged pleasantries. She was in a good mood tonight as he asked her about her younger brother’s result. ‘My roommate is just talking about you now, and she said I should tell you not to feel important o.’ She chipped in. ‘Of course not, what did they say we did wrong this time around oo' I inquired and the response wasn’t forth coming. ‘Who are those making loud noise around you like they are the rulers of OAU,’ she blasted. ‘Let them catch you, you will be surprised,’ I responded. ‘How is Iyore?’ The question came to me from her like a sudden tornado. ‘Fine,’ I replied, ‘very fine,’ I emphasized, feeling a little lesser than composed and short of what to say. I couldn’t wait to end the call as another bucket of salt has being added to my badly decaying injury.
Iyore was my ex-girl friend at Uniben and we had issues with getting along. The last time we spoke was over the phone like nine months ago and she asked me to help her with project topics in my school which I am yet to oblige. When, I am thanking God that thanks that there is not girl and soon, I may be formally launching into the deep for a wife, yes, soon, in the future because for now, I am not ready. My Christian life is in a state of you know, yet to be where I want it to be. I am currently not serving in the house of God and God won’t serve you his daughter if you are not genuinely serving him.
Well, people call me names, the worst of them all, womanizer, when I am not. No qualms, I am social but not a flirt. I walked back into my well arrange chairs in ACJ secretariat and gazed continuously at the wall. I close my eyes to ask God if I am a flirt or not, only to wake up the following morning.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
The Agony of Child birth.
Oni Afolabi Ajibola
‘Honey! Honeeey!’ She groaned. I pulled the bedspread over my body and my pillow, tightly closed, giving me some sexual feelings. Folaabiiii! She called out. This time loud and hard. She had never sounded like that since we got married ten months ago. I was wild awake now. ‘What is the matter?’ I asked Ibukun, my life and love. ‘I think our baby is coming’, she replied.
I rushed out of bed picking a spoon to open the door, but later found the keys on the stool. I had in my campus days swore never to cause her pains, but now she is in pain all because of my insertions. I opened the door dashed to open the car, starting and revving it immediately. I beckon the gatekeeper to open the gate. It was 6:13am; yet, the sweat coming out of my body is a little more than 11 litres.
I was back in the bedroom to help her to the car and she was already on her feet, but obviously in great pains. ‘Big girl’, I said and she replied with a smile. ‘And I didn’t want to do it but you insisted it’, I chipped in. I was happy that she was smiling in pains; at least it may reduce the pains. ‘Look at the way you are sweating, are you the one carrying the baby or me?’ She queried. ‘Both of us’, I replied and we both laughed.
As we got to the car, I kissed her lips and told her how much I loved her. I reminded her of her beauty and her invaluable relevance to my life. She gave a positive reply. It took us another ten minutes to enter into the car because of her legs. I took the driver’s seat and watched her uncomfortable in her seat. She started groaning again as I drove carefully through the gate even more careful with the pot holes and bumps. We were in Miracle Hospital, and I cried for the nurses to come to my aid. To my greatest surprise, no nurse was forthcoming. I ran to their desk asking for a stretcher or something, the nurse snapped back that she should be walked in. Devils! Murderers! I cried out in my mind. I dashed back to the car pretending as if nothing had happen. I helped her to the desk and she was at the mercies of those witches.
‘How many contractions?’, the nurse asked. She replied accordingly, obviously in pains. ‘Go and walk up the stairs for thirty minutes’, the nurse advised. ‘What?’, I thundered. The look from the nurse was asking what my business was in the matter. So, I answered; ‘I am her husband.’ She replied rudely, ‘I don’t need it; you may as well advertise it on the TV for the world to know.’
I need no Prophet to know that she is a witch with seventy-two Demons. I politely walked off her presence and obeyed her instruction. After walking for fifteen minutes, I was very tired. I pitied my wife considering the weight of the potty-belly and the pains she was going through before the exercise which intensified every second.
After twenty minutes of the life- threatening exercise, she seemed tired. So, I advised that we have a rest because I was exhausted myself. The nurse saw us standing. She thundered like the latest madman in Oluwalogon town, ‘Do you want to abort your baby? You this lazy bone! You cannot order her to work! Nonsense!’ After the downpour of insult, I reluctantly asked her that we continue carrying our cross. That was after I reminded her of my love for her and a beautiful kiss planted on cheek.
Thirteen minutes of walking, God provided water from the rock and the nurse’s response was that we should continue the walk. They eventually called her into the delivery room, so I thought, only for her to be out still heavily loaded. ‘They only checked the width of the door and it is still half-opened’, she said hiding her pains. ‘They should open it wide a little now’, I replied. ‘Let’s walk’, she said.
After five minutes, she started having series of contractions. She was led to the delivery room and she requested that I stayed in the delivery room. They half-striped her and I was very shy, especially when I was told that a male will be in charge of her. I almost told him to close his eyes.
She was groaning in pains as they told her to push. The nurses took turns commanding her to push, without allowing her to rest. On one occasion her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. I imagined how many minutes break I took when the omega is coming out of my anal opening. I felt her pains. A nurse shouted, ‘Doctor, let us tear this thing.’ ‘Tear what, Na cloth?’ I sapped back. The nurse gave me the most disgusting gaze of my life.
I asked God for forgiveness and prayed for intervention.
She pushed very hard this time. ‘That’s my girl’, I shouted to the notice of no one. Her eyes wide open, her forehead thoroughly muscular, her sweat thicker than blood, her hands shaking, her nose bony, her veins ready to burst out of any angle, breath ceased, tears on her thoroughly red eyes, the blood, the stiff neck, the enlarged ear, the erected hair and, then the cry of the child…
Written BY Afolabi Ajibola Oni
2nd July 2008
On OAU Campus
‘Honey! Honeeey!’ She groaned. I pulled the bedspread over my body and my pillow, tightly closed, giving me some sexual feelings. Folaabiiii! She called out. This time loud and hard. She had never sounded like that since we got married ten months ago. I was wild awake now. ‘What is the matter?’ I asked Ibukun, my life and love. ‘I think our baby is coming’, she replied.
I rushed out of bed picking a spoon to open the door, but later found the keys on the stool. I had in my campus days swore never to cause her pains, but now she is in pain all because of my insertions. I opened the door dashed to open the car, starting and revving it immediately. I beckon the gatekeeper to open the gate. It was 6:13am; yet, the sweat coming out of my body is a little more than 11 litres.
I was back in the bedroom to help her to the car and she was already on her feet, but obviously in great pains. ‘Big girl’, I said and she replied with a smile. ‘And I didn’t want to do it but you insisted it’, I chipped in. I was happy that she was smiling in pains; at least it may reduce the pains. ‘Look at the way you are sweating, are you the one carrying the baby or me?’ She queried. ‘Both of us’, I replied and we both laughed.
As we got to the car, I kissed her lips and told her how much I loved her. I reminded her of her beauty and her invaluable relevance to my life. She gave a positive reply. It took us another ten minutes to enter into the car because of her legs. I took the driver’s seat and watched her uncomfortable in her seat. She started groaning again as I drove carefully through the gate even more careful with the pot holes and bumps. We were in Miracle Hospital, and I cried for the nurses to come to my aid. To my greatest surprise, no nurse was forthcoming. I ran to their desk asking for a stretcher or something, the nurse snapped back that she should be walked in. Devils! Murderers! I cried out in my mind. I dashed back to the car pretending as if nothing had happen. I helped her to the desk and she was at the mercies of those witches.
‘How many contractions?’, the nurse asked. She replied accordingly, obviously in pains. ‘Go and walk up the stairs for thirty minutes’, the nurse advised. ‘What?’, I thundered. The look from the nurse was asking what my business was in the matter. So, I answered; ‘I am her husband.’ She replied rudely, ‘I don’t need it; you may as well advertise it on the TV for the world to know.’
I need no Prophet to know that she is a witch with seventy-two Demons. I politely walked off her presence and obeyed her instruction. After walking for fifteen minutes, I was very tired. I pitied my wife considering the weight of the potty-belly and the pains she was going through before the exercise which intensified every second.
After twenty minutes of the life- threatening exercise, she seemed tired. So, I advised that we have a rest because I was exhausted myself. The nurse saw us standing. She thundered like the latest madman in Oluwalogon town, ‘Do you want to abort your baby? You this lazy bone! You cannot order her to work! Nonsense!’ After the downpour of insult, I reluctantly asked her that we continue carrying our cross. That was after I reminded her of my love for her and a beautiful kiss planted on cheek.
Thirteen minutes of walking, God provided water from the rock and the nurse’s response was that we should continue the walk. They eventually called her into the delivery room, so I thought, only for her to be out still heavily loaded. ‘They only checked the width of the door and it is still half-opened’, she said hiding her pains. ‘They should open it wide a little now’, I replied. ‘Let’s walk’, she said.
After five minutes, she started having series of contractions. She was led to the delivery room and she requested that I stayed in the delivery room. They half-striped her and I was very shy, especially when I was told that a male will be in charge of her. I almost told him to close his eyes.
She was groaning in pains as they told her to push. The nurses took turns commanding her to push, without allowing her to rest. On one occasion her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. I imagined how many minutes break I took when the omega is coming out of my anal opening. I felt her pains. A nurse shouted, ‘Doctor, let us tear this thing.’ ‘Tear what, Na cloth?’ I sapped back. The nurse gave me the most disgusting gaze of my life.
I asked God for forgiveness and prayed for intervention.
She pushed very hard this time. ‘That’s my girl’, I shouted to the notice of no one. Her eyes wide open, her forehead thoroughly muscular, her sweat thicker than blood, her hands shaking, her nose bony, her veins ready to burst out of any angle, breath ceased, tears on her thoroughly red eyes, the blood, the stiff neck, the enlarged ear, the erected hair and, then the cry of the child…
Written BY Afolabi Ajibola Oni
2nd July 2008
On OAU Campus
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Nigeria at 50: Never celebrate; neither Jubilate, but appreciate
I am more than disappointed in people for the mere fact that everybody or most persons will ask, what is there to celebrate? Yes, I was also force to ask that question.
On the eve of the Jubilee celebration, I waited till it was around 12.30am and I checked my mtn account balance is the same 12kobo, I rushed to insert my Glo line and it’s the same old story, on my zain line, their was no network as usual. Even the three major telecommunication networks gave us nothing to celebrate. I sluggishly walked to my bed, downcast and disappointed.
In the early hours of the morning, I repeated the action, but the same old story. I inserted my multilinks internet modem into my Laptop (Because the airtime had long being exhausted and money to recharge is more than abundant), yet no nothing to celebrate. Currently, I don’t operate a bank account, all I operate is a pocket account but even the pocket account isn’t speaking anything positive. To be frank nothing with you, there is nothing to celebrate.
The issue my breakfast for the day had long being settled. The usual spoon in the pocket room to room visitation, after all Yorubas will say, it is the person that loves you that will eat your meal. Of course on campus we don’t call it begging, it is communal living and a well encouraged spirit of brotherhood. Ask me what I ate on Jubilee day celebration. I started with two spoons of garri, followed closely with four spoons of rice, and another two spoons of corn pap, half a piece of yam socked in palm oil, a cut of bread and mayonnaise, and 5 spoons of bean. Not forgetting to remember a sip of tea. All these from persons I was meeting probably for the first time. I was so lucky that no caring lady asked me took for breakfast because that would have being catastrophically disastrous. I should be the person to say that there is nothing to celebrate.
The light was off in the early hours of the morning in OAU but was restored around 11am or probably it was the university rickety and terribly comatose generator that was employed again. I cannot blame the University Management for using a one hundred and ninety eight years old donkey to pull a 5, 000 kilogram weigh load, after all, it is what you have that you will utilize.
All evidence shows that only an abnormally normal man or probably a normally abnormal man can say that Nigeria at 50 is what celebrating. This jubilee celebration should be and must be a time of reflection. We should appreciate some things about our country. We should appreciate the potentiality of Nigeria as a country. They huge human resources, the innumerable discovered and yet to be discovered mineral resources among others. Nigeria has the potential of being the world largest economy in the world and using our numbers to our advantage and not disadvantage as it is currently.
One cannot but appreciate the fact that this country juggled together by a collection of greedy white men that hasn’t stop being one of the minor reasons for our problem is still united against their wish. We had civil wars for 30months but we are still united. Of course our unity is currently yielding no result or no substantial results. Do you know that Korea did secede from Japan and they did further split to North and South Korea? Do you know that Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903. Ukraine has lost her case in the international court of justice against Romania over boundary problems and that the corresponding Article 72 of the 1977 Constitution was used in December 1991 to effectively dissolve the Soviet Union, when Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus seceded from the Union? The world powers are interested in our disunity because they know the potentiality of this nation Nigeria. They know that if Nigerians do the right thing, we have what it takes to be the world power.
More so, we cannot but appreciate our nationalists who fought for the independence of our about great country of ours. The like of Sir Tafawa Balewa, Nnamdi Azikwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Oba Overawen of Benin, Ladoke Akintola among others. Even if the child at 50 years of age is badly infected with all manner of infections, cripple, maggot infested and everything but good. Does that means we shouldn’t appreciate the mother who in water and blood, pain, agony and groaning brought the child to live? Our nationalists suffered hard and they should be appreciated.
I cannot but be disappointed in Nigerians because we the cause of the problems join the low thinking ironically independent and advance countries in calling our country names. They are independent yet they come here looking for job in oil industry. They exploit our land, dry up the crude oil with little or no maintenance. They join hand with our traitors, forgive me, I mean government official to export our resources without any form of estimate. They swim in our country to cool when there is drought in the hinterland. They call us names, they say we earn less than 1dollar a week according to abc news report. They say that our specialty is 419 as section of our constitution that is dead and buried. Should we join them to add salt to our injury? They say we are illiterate and they never mention Italy that less than 7percent of her population ever attended the university. They say we are yahoo- yahoo professional and that we celebrate the riches even above honesty and integrity. When they have never mention the greedy senseless whites, who want to make $20, 000 from just one business transaction that they invested probable $400 at the speed of light. Our government are dull but sincere enough to say this yahoo boys are spoiling the image of Nigeria abroad and send them to jail, but their own government are duller and to egoistic to admit internationally that this greedy white are spoiling their image and sent them to jail too. If there are no magas, there will be no mugus. This is cause ant effect relationship. Governments of advance countries should place a jail term for greed people and scam will be an archaic word.
The problem of our about to be great country multifaceted, they problem will be 70percent solved if all the citizens of Nigeria can be faithful, loyal and honest. Then we can have cause to celebrate, but for now just appreciate.
Afolabi Oni
400 level Education English
Editor in Chief
The Gist newspaper
08036126690, oniafolabiajibola@yahoo.com
On the eve of the Jubilee celebration, I waited till it was around 12.30am and I checked my mtn account balance is the same 12kobo, I rushed to insert my Glo line and it’s the same old story, on my zain line, their was no network as usual. Even the three major telecommunication networks gave us nothing to celebrate. I sluggishly walked to my bed, downcast and disappointed.
In the early hours of the morning, I repeated the action, but the same old story. I inserted my multilinks internet modem into my Laptop (Because the airtime had long being exhausted and money to recharge is more than abundant), yet no nothing to celebrate. Currently, I don’t operate a bank account, all I operate is a pocket account but even the pocket account isn’t speaking anything positive. To be frank nothing with you, there is nothing to celebrate.
The issue my breakfast for the day had long being settled. The usual spoon in the pocket room to room visitation, after all Yorubas will say, it is the person that loves you that will eat your meal. Of course on campus we don’t call it begging, it is communal living and a well encouraged spirit of brotherhood. Ask me what I ate on Jubilee day celebration. I started with two spoons of garri, followed closely with four spoons of rice, and another two spoons of corn pap, half a piece of yam socked in palm oil, a cut of bread and mayonnaise, and 5 spoons of bean. Not forgetting to remember a sip of tea. All these from persons I was meeting probably for the first time. I was so lucky that no caring lady asked me took for breakfast because that would have being catastrophically disastrous. I should be the person to say that there is nothing to celebrate.
The light was off in the early hours of the morning in OAU but was restored around 11am or probably it was the university rickety and terribly comatose generator that was employed again. I cannot blame the University Management for using a one hundred and ninety eight years old donkey to pull a 5, 000 kilogram weigh load, after all, it is what you have that you will utilize.
All evidence shows that only an abnormally normal man or probably a normally abnormal man can say that Nigeria at 50 is what celebrating. This jubilee celebration should be and must be a time of reflection. We should appreciate some things about our country. We should appreciate the potentiality of Nigeria as a country. They huge human resources, the innumerable discovered and yet to be discovered mineral resources among others. Nigeria has the potential of being the world largest economy in the world and using our numbers to our advantage and not disadvantage as it is currently.
One cannot but appreciate the fact that this country juggled together by a collection of greedy white men that hasn’t stop being one of the minor reasons for our problem is still united against their wish. We had civil wars for 30months but we are still united. Of course our unity is currently yielding no result or no substantial results. Do you know that Korea did secede from Japan and they did further split to North and South Korea? Do you know that Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903. Ukraine has lost her case in the international court of justice against Romania over boundary problems and that the corresponding Article 72 of the 1977 Constitution was used in December 1991 to effectively dissolve the Soviet Union, when Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus seceded from the Union? The world powers are interested in our disunity because they know the potentiality of this nation Nigeria. They know that if Nigerians do the right thing, we have what it takes to be the world power.
More so, we cannot but appreciate our nationalists who fought for the independence of our about great country of ours. The like of Sir Tafawa Balewa, Nnamdi Azikwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Oba Overawen of Benin, Ladoke Akintola among others. Even if the child at 50 years of age is badly infected with all manner of infections, cripple, maggot infested and everything but good. Does that means we shouldn’t appreciate the mother who in water and blood, pain, agony and groaning brought the child to live? Our nationalists suffered hard and they should be appreciated.
I cannot but be disappointed in Nigerians because we the cause of the problems join the low thinking ironically independent and advance countries in calling our country names. They are independent yet they come here looking for job in oil industry. They exploit our land, dry up the crude oil with little or no maintenance. They join hand with our traitors, forgive me, I mean government official to export our resources without any form of estimate. They swim in our country to cool when there is drought in the hinterland. They call us names, they say we earn less than 1dollar a week according to abc news report. They say that our specialty is 419 as section of our constitution that is dead and buried. Should we join them to add salt to our injury? They say we are illiterate and they never mention Italy that less than 7percent of her population ever attended the university. They say we are yahoo- yahoo professional and that we celebrate the riches even above honesty and integrity. When they have never mention the greedy senseless whites, who want to make $20, 000 from just one business transaction that they invested probable $400 at the speed of light. Our government are dull but sincere enough to say this yahoo boys are spoiling the image of Nigeria abroad and send them to jail, but their own government are duller and to egoistic to admit internationally that this greedy white are spoiling their image and sent them to jail too. If there are no magas, there will be no mugus. This is cause ant effect relationship. Governments of advance countries should place a jail term for greed people and scam will be an archaic word.
The problem of our about to be great country multifaceted, they problem will be 70percent solved if all the citizens of Nigeria can be faithful, loyal and honest. Then we can have cause to celebrate, but for now just appreciate.
Afolabi Oni
400 level Education English
Editor in Chief
The Gist newspaper
08036126690, oniafolabiajibola@yahoo.com
HIV/AID: Reasoning the Risky Result
Nigeria is the second largest country in the world of people living with HIV/AIDS, with an estimated number of 2.6million. This perturbing situation prompted Afolabi Oni a 400level Student of Education English to view the situation.
Obafemi Awolowo University is one of the best institutions in Nigeria with an estimated number of over 26, 000 students. These students form the elite class of the society and are expected to live by example. In my research conducted with a questionnaire with randomly selected 200 hundred students show that, 98% have heard of HIV/AIDS, 90% know that Nigeria is the second most infected in the world and 80% know that Africa has over 60% of the epidemic. 51% know that using infected syringe will get one infected while 67% know that unscreened blood can get one infected. 67% believe good condoms can still get one infected, 8% think that pecking and eating with an infected person respectively can get one infected. 7% think that dancing and using toilet with an infected person can get on infected and 78% think that salvia is infectious. Over 85% do not know their HIV/AIDS statue and 81% still engage in unsafe activities like sex, use of unscreened sharp objects despite having known their statue. All this and more were revealed in the research.
Speaking with the Dean Division of Students’ Affairs of OAU, Dr. Mrs. Lateefat Durosinmi said, ‘The problem is lack of finance and we are appealing for better coordination. The university has a committee on Aids but I recommend that the organizers should look for better awareness strategy to catch the attention of students.’
The Gist correspondent went to National Agency on the Control of Aids (NACA), OAU, the vision of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and met with Mr. Bankole Olutade a graduate of Guidance counseling in University of Ado Ekiti who has also gotten some paramedic training and currently the counseling psychologist, ecobank/Naca youth service centre said to campuslife that, ‘The high rate of infected persons can be views from the stand point of population more so, the migration rate in Nigeria is high and the level of illiterate also contributes to it. It is disturbing that despite the free HIV testing by NACA, students are not interested in the test maybe the fear of stigmatization is the rationale behind this, but all we do here is one hundred percent confidential. I must say that financing NACA has not being easy since the inception of this new administration. The University Administration should help us with financing, although they are doing a good job, but we need more training and most importantly a column on the OAU website for better publicity. Currently as I speak, we have just two kits available and we cannot continue with the free testing because we must reserve it for emergency. Some students’ test positive and they don’t look sick and they are good looking, we just advise students to play safe. We have free condoms here both male and female condoms but we give on request. Abstinence is core.’
The Gist correspondent also met with Dr. Adesegun Fatusi a public health physician, an associate Professor of community Health and the Director for the institute of pubic health also had a detailed discussion with The gist correspondent and he said, ‘The account for the high number of HIV/AIDS is because our population is large. We have estimated 2.4 million living with the virus and our percentage is about 3% of the population unlike other South African countries that have over 30% but with a small population.’
‘Many don’t like condom, but the reality is the best is abstinence but if you can then condom is safe, but the truth is people don’t know how to use this condom and they assume they do, they do not read the instruction on it. For instance, some condoms advise the use of lubricant but it is clearly written that not oil based lubricant, but our people use Vaseline. More so, people are expected to expel the air at the tip and hold the tip while wearing it and if you allow air to going in carelessly, you give it room to burst easy. Condom could have problem just like anything in life. ‘
He continued by saying that, ‘the virus is contained in all body fluids, saliva, virginal fluid, and sperm among others. Kissing does not produce that critical dose that will ensure infection, but any form of blood contact during kissing which is possible will facilitate infection. Some say that Aids is American Invention to Discourage Sex and take Africa into extinction, because despite their population, immorality rate Africa still has more of the virus. The truth is it is not about how sexually active that you are, but how sexually wise that you are. Many people in developed countries use condom and more so, some of our social practices like one giving out unscreened blood, more so here, people don’t donate blood like advanced countries. Also, how do we dispose used syringe, local scarification and traditional birth delivery that people do with non professionals. For instance in South Africa, ‘they say once you are HIV positive go and sleep with a virgin and that will cure it, this cannot but make the case worse for Africa. More so, we didn’t rise up early to challenge the virus.’
‘The issue of marrying an infected person is a choice but they must be under a specialist. I cannot but say that the rate of infection between male and females is like 30 to 70% respectively. This is unconnected with the sizes of the opening of the two reproductive organs. The male still deposit the sperm and this makes was for females and they must be more careful. Our government has not taken it as a problem, even foreign country are helping us more than them. They should see it as a capital problem, because if everyone is infected, who will remain to teach, treat and perform other professions,’ Dr. Fatusi concluded.
Ademola Adefioye the President of Education English, 400 level, said, ‘I is surprising that even with the high level of conscientization and awareness the rate that HIV spreads is alarming. The disease has gone beyond ‘abstinence and self protecting’ everyone should preach it everywhere even in religious houses. Nigeria has huge population and that means that promiscuous persons see that as an advantage because they will say, variety is the spice of life and they will be keeping various sex partners. We cannot but keep preaching it anybody can be infected with the virus.’
08036126690
Obafemi Awolowo University is one of the best institutions in Nigeria with an estimated number of over 26, 000 students. These students form the elite class of the society and are expected to live by example. In my research conducted with a questionnaire with randomly selected 200 hundred students show that, 98% have heard of HIV/AIDS, 90% know that Nigeria is the second most infected in the world and 80% know that Africa has over 60% of the epidemic. 51% know that using infected syringe will get one infected while 67% know that unscreened blood can get one infected. 67% believe good condoms can still get one infected, 8% think that pecking and eating with an infected person respectively can get one infected. 7% think that dancing and using toilet with an infected person can get on infected and 78% think that salvia is infectious. Over 85% do not know their HIV/AIDS statue and 81% still engage in unsafe activities like sex, use of unscreened sharp objects despite having known their statue. All this and more were revealed in the research.
Speaking with the Dean Division of Students’ Affairs of OAU, Dr. Mrs. Lateefat Durosinmi said, ‘The problem is lack of finance and we are appealing for better coordination. The university has a committee on Aids but I recommend that the organizers should look for better awareness strategy to catch the attention of students.’
The Gist correspondent went to National Agency on the Control of Aids (NACA), OAU, the vision of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and met with Mr. Bankole Olutade a graduate of Guidance counseling in University of Ado Ekiti who has also gotten some paramedic training and currently the counseling psychologist, ecobank/Naca youth service centre said to campuslife that, ‘The high rate of infected persons can be views from the stand point of population more so, the migration rate in Nigeria is high and the level of illiterate also contributes to it. It is disturbing that despite the free HIV testing by NACA, students are not interested in the test maybe the fear of stigmatization is the rationale behind this, but all we do here is one hundred percent confidential. I must say that financing NACA has not being easy since the inception of this new administration. The University Administration should help us with financing, although they are doing a good job, but we need more training and most importantly a column on the OAU website for better publicity. Currently as I speak, we have just two kits available and we cannot continue with the free testing because we must reserve it for emergency. Some students’ test positive and they don’t look sick and they are good looking, we just advise students to play safe. We have free condoms here both male and female condoms but we give on request. Abstinence is core.’
The Gist correspondent also met with Dr. Adesegun Fatusi a public health physician, an associate Professor of community Health and the Director for the institute of pubic health also had a detailed discussion with The gist correspondent and he said, ‘The account for the high number of HIV/AIDS is because our population is large. We have estimated 2.4 million living with the virus and our percentage is about 3% of the population unlike other South African countries that have over 30% but with a small population.’
‘Many don’t like condom, but the reality is the best is abstinence but if you can then condom is safe, but the truth is people don’t know how to use this condom and they assume they do, they do not read the instruction on it. For instance, some condoms advise the use of lubricant but it is clearly written that not oil based lubricant, but our people use Vaseline. More so, people are expected to expel the air at the tip and hold the tip while wearing it and if you allow air to going in carelessly, you give it room to burst easy. Condom could have problem just like anything in life. ‘
He continued by saying that, ‘the virus is contained in all body fluids, saliva, virginal fluid, and sperm among others. Kissing does not produce that critical dose that will ensure infection, but any form of blood contact during kissing which is possible will facilitate infection. Some say that Aids is American Invention to Discourage Sex and take Africa into extinction, because despite their population, immorality rate Africa still has more of the virus. The truth is it is not about how sexually active that you are, but how sexually wise that you are. Many people in developed countries use condom and more so, some of our social practices like one giving out unscreened blood, more so here, people don’t donate blood like advanced countries. Also, how do we dispose used syringe, local scarification and traditional birth delivery that people do with non professionals. For instance in South Africa, ‘they say once you are HIV positive go and sleep with a virgin and that will cure it, this cannot but make the case worse for Africa. More so, we didn’t rise up early to challenge the virus.’
‘The issue of marrying an infected person is a choice but they must be under a specialist. I cannot but say that the rate of infection between male and females is like 30 to 70% respectively. This is unconnected with the sizes of the opening of the two reproductive organs. The male still deposit the sperm and this makes was for females and they must be more careful. Our government has not taken it as a problem, even foreign country are helping us more than them. They should see it as a capital problem, because if everyone is infected, who will remain to teach, treat and perform other professions,’ Dr. Fatusi concluded.
Ademola Adefioye the President of Education English, 400 level, said, ‘I is surprising that even with the high level of conscientization and awareness the rate that HIV spreads is alarming. The disease has gone beyond ‘abstinence and self protecting’ everyone should preach it everywhere even in religious houses. Nigeria has huge population and that means that promiscuous persons see that as an advantage because they will say, variety is the spice of life and they will be keeping various sex partners. We cannot but keep preaching it anybody can be infected with the virus.’
08036126690
HIV/AID: Reasoning the Risky Result
Nigeria is the second largest country in the world of people living with HIV/AIDS, with an estimated number of 2.6million. This perturbing situation prompted Afolabi Oni a 400level Student of Education English to view the situation.
Obafemi Awolowo University is one of the best institutions in Nigeria with an estimated number of over 26, 000 students. These students form the elite class of the society and are expected to live by example. In my research conducted with a questionnaire with randomly selected 200 hundred students show that, 98% have heard of HIV/AIDS, 90% know that Nigeria is the second most infected in the world and 80% know that Africa has over 60% of the epidemic. 51% know that using infected syringe will get one infected while 67% know that unscreened blood can get one infected. 67% believe good condoms can still get one infected, 8% think that pecking and eating with an infected person respectively can get one infected. 7% think that dancing and using toilet with an infected person can get on infected and 78% think that salvia is infectious. Over 85% do not know their HIV/AIDS statue and 81% still engage in unsafe activities like sex, use of unscreened sharp objects despite having known their statue. All this and more were revealed in the research.
Speaking with the Dean Division of Students’ Affairs of OAU, Dr. Mrs. Lateefat Durosinmi said, ‘The problem is lack of finance and we are appealing for better coordination. The university has a committee on Aids but I recommend that the organizers should look for better awareness strategy to catch the attention of students.’
The Gist correspondent went to National Agency on the Control of Aids (NACA), OAU, the vision of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and met with Mr. Bankole Olutade a graduate of Guidance counseling in University of Ado Ekiti who has also gotten some paramedic training and currently the counseling psychologist, ecobank/Naca youth service centre said to campuslife that, ‘The high rate of infected persons can be views from the stand point of population more so, the migration rate in Nigeria is high and the level of illiterate also contributes to it. It is disturbing that despite the free HIV testing by NACA, students are not interested in the test maybe the fear of stigmatization is the rationale behind this, but all we do here is one hundred percent confidential. I must say that financing NACA has not being easy since the inception of this new administration. The University Administration should help us with financing, although they are doing a good job, but we need more training and most importantly a column on the OAU website for better publicity. Currently as I speak, we have just two kits available and we cannot continue with the free testing because we must reserve it for emergency. Some students’ test positive and they don’t look sick and they are good looking, we just advise students to play safe. We have free condoms here both male and female condoms but we give on request. Abstinence is core.’
The Gist correspondent also met with Dr. Adesegun Fatusi a public health physician, an associate Professor of community Health and the Director for the institute of pubic health also had a detailed discussion with The gist correspondent and he said, ‘The account for the high number of HIV/AIDS is because our population is large. We have estimated 2.4 million living with the virus and our percentage is about 3% of the population unlike other South African countries that have over 30% but with a small population.’
‘Many don’t like condom, but the reality is the best is abstinence but if you can then condom is safe, but the truth is people don’t know how to use this condom and they assume they do, they do not read the instruction on it. For instance, some condoms advise the use of lubricant but it is clearly written that not oil based lubricant, but our people use Vaseline. More so, people are expected to expel the air at the tip and hold the tip while wearing it and if you allow air to going in carelessly, you give it room to burst easy. Condom could have problem just like anything in life. ‘
He continued by saying that, ‘the virus is contained in all body fluids, saliva, virginal fluid, and sperm among others. Kissing does not produce that critical dose that will ensure infection, but any form of blood contact during kissing which is possible will facilitate infection. Some say that Aids is American Invention to Discourage Sex and take Africa into extinction, because despite their population, immorality rate Africa still has more of the virus. The truth is it is not about how sexually active that you are, but how sexually wise that you are. Many people in developed countries use condom and more so, some of our social practices like one giving out unscreened blood, more so here, people don’t donate blood like advanced countries. Also, how do we dispose used syringe, local scarification and traditional birth delivery that people do with non professionals. For instance in South Africa, ‘they say once you are HIV positive go and sleep with a virgin and that will cure it, this cannot but make the case worse for Africa. More so, we didn’t rise up early to challenge the virus.’
‘The issue of marrying an infected person is a choice but they must be under a specialist. I cannot but say that the rate of infection between male and females is like 30 to 70% respectively. This is unconnected with the sizes of the opening of the two reproductive organs. The male still deposit the sperm and this makes was for females and they must be more careful. Our government has not taken it as a problem, even foreign country are helping us more than them. They should see it as a capital problem, because if everyone is infected, who will remain to teach, treat and perform other professions,’ Dr. Fatusi concluded.
Ademola Adefioye the President of Education English, 400 level, said, ‘I is surprising that even with the high level of conscientization and awareness the rate that HIV spreads is alarming. The disease has gone beyond ‘abstinence and self protecting’ everyone should preach it everywhere even in religious houses. Nigeria has huge population and that means that promiscuous persons see that as an advantage because they will say, variety is the spice of life and they will be keeping various sex partners. We cannot but keep preaching it anybody can be infected with the virus.’
08036126690
Obafemi Awolowo University is one of the best institutions in Nigeria with an estimated number of over 26, 000 students. These students form the elite class of the society and are expected to live by example. In my research conducted with a questionnaire with randomly selected 200 hundred students show that, 98% have heard of HIV/AIDS, 90% know that Nigeria is the second most infected in the world and 80% know that Africa has over 60% of the epidemic. 51% know that using infected syringe will get one infected while 67% know that unscreened blood can get one infected. 67% believe good condoms can still get one infected, 8% think that pecking and eating with an infected person respectively can get one infected. 7% think that dancing and using toilet with an infected person can get on infected and 78% think that salvia is infectious. Over 85% do not know their HIV/AIDS statue and 81% still engage in unsafe activities like sex, use of unscreened sharp objects despite having known their statue. All this and more were revealed in the research.
Speaking with the Dean Division of Students’ Affairs of OAU, Dr. Mrs. Lateefat Durosinmi said, ‘The problem is lack of finance and we are appealing for better coordination. The university has a committee on Aids but I recommend that the organizers should look for better awareness strategy to catch the attention of students.’
The Gist correspondent went to National Agency on the Control of Aids (NACA), OAU, the vision of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and met with Mr. Bankole Olutade a graduate of Guidance counseling in University of Ado Ekiti who has also gotten some paramedic training and currently the counseling psychologist, ecobank/Naca youth service centre said to campuslife that, ‘The high rate of infected persons can be views from the stand point of population more so, the migration rate in Nigeria is high and the level of illiterate also contributes to it. It is disturbing that despite the free HIV testing by NACA, students are not interested in the test maybe the fear of stigmatization is the rationale behind this, but all we do here is one hundred percent confidential. I must say that financing NACA has not being easy since the inception of this new administration. The University Administration should help us with financing, although they are doing a good job, but we need more training and most importantly a column on the OAU website for better publicity. Currently as I speak, we have just two kits available and we cannot continue with the free testing because we must reserve it for emergency. Some students’ test positive and they don’t look sick and they are good looking, we just advise students to play safe. We have free condoms here both male and female condoms but we give on request. Abstinence is core.’
The Gist correspondent also met with Dr. Adesegun Fatusi a public health physician, an associate Professor of community Health and the Director for the institute of pubic health also had a detailed discussion with The gist correspondent and he said, ‘The account for the high number of HIV/AIDS is because our population is large. We have estimated 2.4 million living with the virus and our percentage is about 3% of the population unlike other South African countries that have over 30% but with a small population.’
‘Many don’t like condom, but the reality is the best is abstinence but if you can then condom is safe, but the truth is people don’t know how to use this condom and they assume they do, they do not read the instruction on it. For instance, some condoms advise the use of lubricant but it is clearly written that not oil based lubricant, but our people use Vaseline. More so, people are expected to expel the air at the tip and hold the tip while wearing it and if you allow air to going in carelessly, you give it room to burst easy. Condom could have problem just like anything in life. ‘
He continued by saying that, ‘the virus is contained in all body fluids, saliva, virginal fluid, and sperm among others. Kissing does not produce that critical dose that will ensure infection, but any form of blood contact during kissing which is possible will facilitate infection. Some say that Aids is American Invention to Discourage Sex and take Africa into extinction, because despite their population, immorality rate Africa still has more of the virus. The truth is it is not about how sexually active that you are, but how sexually wise that you are. Many people in developed countries use condom and more so, some of our social practices like one giving out unscreened blood, more so here, people don’t donate blood like advanced countries. Also, how do we dispose used syringe, local scarification and traditional birth delivery that people do with non professionals. For instance in South Africa, ‘they say once you are HIV positive go and sleep with a virgin and that will cure it, this cannot but make the case worse for Africa. More so, we didn’t rise up early to challenge the virus.’
‘The issue of marrying an infected person is a choice but they must be under a specialist. I cannot but say that the rate of infection between male and females is like 30 to 70% respectively. This is unconnected with the sizes of the opening of the two reproductive organs. The male still deposit the sperm and this makes was for females and they must be more careful. Our government has not taken it as a problem, even foreign country are helping us more than them. They should see it as a capital problem, because if everyone is infected, who will remain to teach, treat and perform other professions,’ Dr. Fatusi concluded.
Ademola Adefioye the President of Education English, 400 level, said, ‘I is surprising that even with the high level of conscientization and awareness the rate that HIV spreads is alarming. The disease has gone beyond ‘abstinence and self protecting’ everyone should preach it everywhere even in religious houses. Nigeria has huge population and that means that promiscuous persons see that as an advantage because they will say, variety is the spice of life and they will be keeping various sex partners. We cannot but keep preaching it anybody can be infected with the virus.’
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HIV/AID: Reasoning the Risky Result
Nigeria is the second largest country in the world of people living with HIV/AIDS, with an estimated number of 2.6million. This perturbing situation prompted Afolabi Oni a 400level Student of Education English to view the situation.
Obafemi Awolowo University is one of the best institutions in Nigeria with an estimated number of over 26, 000 students. These students form the elite class of the society and are expected to live by example. In my research conducted with a questionnaire with randomly selected 200 hundred students show that, 98% have heard of HIV/AIDS, 90% know that Nigeria is the second most infected in the world and 80% know that Africa has over 60% of the epidemic. 51% know that using infected syringe will get one infected while 67% know that unscreened blood can get one infected. 67% believe good condoms can still get one infected, 8% think that pecking and eating with an infected person respectively can get one infected. 7% think that dancing and using toilet with an infected person can get on infected and 78% think that salvia is infectious. Over 85% do not know their HIV/AIDS statue and 81% still engage in unsafe activities like sex, use of unscreened sharp objects despite having known their statue. All this and more were revealed in the research.
Speaking with the Dean Division of Students’ Affairs of OAU, Dr. Mrs. Lateefat Durosinmi said, ‘The problem is lack of finance and we are appealing for better coordination. The university has a committee on Aids but I recommend that the organizers should look for better awareness strategy to catch the attention of students.’
The Gist correspondent went to National Agency on the Control of Aids (NACA), OAU, the vision of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and met with Mr. Bankole Olutade a graduate of Guidance counseling in University of Ado Ekiti who has also gotten some paramedic training and currently the counseling psychologist, ecobank/Naca youth service centre said to campuslife that, ‘The high rate of infected persons can be views from the stand point of population more so, the migration rate in Nigeria is high and the level of illiterate also contributes to it. It is disturbing that despite the free HIV testing by NACA, students are not interested in the test maybe the fear of stigmatization is the rationale behind this, but all we do here is one hundred percent confidential. I must say that financing NACA has not being easy since the inception of this new administration. The University Administration should help us with financing, although they are doing a good job, but we need more training and most importantly a column on the OAU website for better publicity. Currently as I speak, we have just two kits available and we cannot continue with the free testing because we must reserve it for emergency. Some students’ test positive and they don’t look sick and they are good looking, we just advise students to play safe. We have free condoms here both male and female condoms but we give on request. Abstinence is core.’
The Gist correspondent also met with Dr. Adesegun Fatusi a public health physician, an associate Professor of community Health and the Director for the institute of pubic health also had a detailed discussion with The gist correspondent and he said, ‘The account for the high number of HIV/AIDS is because our population is large. We have estimated 2.4 million living with the virus and our percentage is about 3% of the population unlike other South African countries that have over 30% but with a small population.’
‘Many don’t like condom, but the reality is the best is abstinence but if you can then condom is safe, but the truth is people don’t know how to use this condom and they assume they do, they do not read the instruction on it. For instance, some condoms advise the use of lubricant but it is clearly written that not oil based lubricant, but our people use Vaseline. More so, people are expected to expel the air at the tip and hold the tip while wearing it and if you allow air to going in carelessly, you give it room to burst easy. Condom could have problem just like anything in life. ‘
He continued by saying that, ‘the virus is contained in all body fluids, saliva, virginal fluid, and sperm among others. Kissing does not produce that critical dose that will ensure infection, but any form of blood contact during kissing which is possible will facilitate infection. Some say that Aids is American Invention to Discourage Sex and take Africa into extinction, because despite their population, immorality rate Africa still has more of the virus. The truth is it is not about how sexually active that you are, but how sexually wise that you are. Many people in developed countries use condom and more so, some of our social practices like one giving out unscreened blood, more so here, people don’t donate blood like advanced countries. Also, how do we dispose used syringe, local scarification and traditional birth delivery that people do with non professionals. For instance in South Africa, ‘they say once you are HIV positive go and sleep with a virgin and that will cure it, this cannot but make the case worse for Africa. More so, we didn’t rise up early to challenge the virus.’
‘The issue of marrying an infected person is a choice but they must be under a specialist. I cannot but say that the rate of infection between male and females is like 30 to 70% respectively. This is unconnected with the sizes of the opening of the two reproductive organs. The male still deposit the sperm and this makes was for females and they must be more careful. Our government has not taken it as a problem, even foreign country are helping us more than them. They should see it as a capital problem, because if everyone is infected, who will remain to teach, treat and perform other professions,’ Dr. Fatusi concluded.
Ademola Adefioye the President of Education English, 400 level, said, ‘I is surprising that even with the high level of conscientization and awareness the rate that HIV spreads is alarming. The disease has gone beyond ‘abstinence and self protecting’ everyone should preach it everywhere even in religious houses. Nigeria has huge population and that means that promiscuous persons see that as an advantage because they will say, variety is the spice of life and they will be keeping various sex partners. We cannot but keep preaching it anybody can be infected with the virus.’
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Obafemi Awolowo University is one of the best institutions in Nigeria with an estimated number of over 26, 000 students. These students form the elite class of the society and are expected to live by example. In my research conducted with a questionnaire with randomly selected 200 hundred students show that, 98% have heard of HIV/AIDS, 90% know that Nigeria is the second most infected in the world and 80% know that Africa has over 60% of the epidemic. 51% know that using infected syringe will get one infected while 67% know that unscreened blood can get one infected. 67% believe good condoms can still get one infected, 8% think that pecking and eating with an infected person respectively can get one infected. 7% think that dancing and using toilet with an infected person can get on infected and 78% think that salvia is infectious. Over 85% do not know their HIV/AIDS statue and 81% still engage in unsafe activities like sex, use of unscreened sharp objects despite having known their statue. All this and more were revealed in the research.
Speaking with the Dean Division of Students’ Affairs of OAU, Dr. Mrs. Lateefat Durosinmi said, ‘The problem is lack of finance and we are appealing for better coordination. The university has a committee on Aids but I recommend that the organizers should look for better awareness strategy to catch the attention of students.’
The Gist correspondent went to National Agency on the Control of Aids (NACA), OAU, the vision of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and met with Mr. Bankole Olutade a graduate of Guidance counseling in University of Ado Ekiti who has also gotten some paramedic training and currently the counseling psychologist, ecobank/Naca youth service centre said to campuslife that, ‘The high rate of infected persons can be views from the stand point of population more so, the migration rate in Nigeria is high and the level of illiterate also contributes to it. It is disturbing that despite the free HIV testing by NACA, students are not interested in the test maybe the fear of stigmatization is the rationale behind this, but all we do here is one hundred percent confidential. I must say that financing NACA has not being easy since the inception of this new administration. The University Administration should help us with financing, although they are doing a good job, but we need more training and most importantly a column on the OAU website for better publicity. Currently as I speak, we have just two kits available and we cannot continue with the free testing because we must reserve it for emergency. Some students’ test positive and they don’t look sick and they are good looking, we just advise students to play safe. We have free condoms here both male and female condoms but we give on request. Abstinence is core.’
The Gist correspondent also met with Dr. Adesegun Fatusi a public health physician, an associate Professor of community Health and the Director for the institute of pubic health also had a detailed discussion with The gist correspondent and he said, ‘The account for the high number of HIV/AIDS is because our population is large. We have estimated 2.4 million living with the virus and our percentage is about 3% of the population unlike other South African countries that have over 30% but with a small population.’
‘Many don’t like condom, but the reality is the best is abstinence but if you can then condom is safe, but the truth is people don’t know how to use this condom and they assume they do, they do not read the instruction on it. For instance, some condoms advise the use of lubricant but it is clearly written that not oil based lubricant, but our people use Vaseline. More so, people are expected to expel the air at the tip and hold the tip while wearing it and if you allow air to going in carelessly, you give it room to burst easy. Condom could have problem just like anything in life. ‘
He continued by saying that, ‘the virus is contained in all body fluids, saliva, virginal fluid, and sperm among others. Kissing does not produce that critical dose that will ensure infection, but any form of blood contact during kissing which is possible will facilitate infection. Some say that Aids is American Invention to Discourage Sex and take Africa into extinction, because despite their population, immorality rate Africa still has more of the virus. The truth is it is not about how sexually active that you are, but how sexually wise that you are. Many people in developed countries use condom and more so, some of our social practices like one giving out unscreened blood, more so here, people don’t donate blood like advanced countries. Also, how do we dispose used syringe, local scarification and traditional birth delivery that people do with non professionals. For instance in South Africa, ‘they say once you are HIV positive go and sleep with a virgin and that will cure it, this cannot but make the case worse for Africa. More so, we didn’t rise up early to challenge the virus.’
‘The issue of marrying an infected person is a choice but they must be under a specialist. I cannot but say that the rate of infection between male and females is like 30 to 70% respectively. This is unconnected with the sizes of the opening of the two reproductive organs. The male still deposit the sperm and this makes was for females and they must be more careful. Our government has not taken it as a problem, even foreign country are helping us more than them. They should see it as a capital problem, because if everyone is infected, who will remain to teach, treat and perform other professions,’ Dr. Fatusi concluded.
Ademola Adefioye the President of Education English, 400 level, said, ‘I is surprising that even with the high level of conscientization and awareness the rate that HIV spreads is alarming. The disease has gone beyond ‘abstinence and self protecting’ everyone should preach it everywhere even in religious houses. Nigeria has huge population and that means that promiscuous persons see that as an advantage because they will say, variety is the spice of life and they will be keeping various sex partners. We cannot but keep preaching it anybody can be infected with the virus.’
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‘HIV/AIDS’ ON CAMPUS
An Exclusive Interview conducted by Afolabi Oni, the Editor in Chief of THE GIST, a 400level student of Education English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State with Associate Professor Fatusi, Director of the Institute of Public Health on the issue of HIV/AIDS and the ways to avoid an explosive increase in the number of infected persons in Nigeria.
Gist: Can we me you sir?
Dr.: My name is Adesegun Fatusi, I am a Public Health Physician, an Associate Professor of Community Health in Obafemi Awolowo University, and currently I am the Director of the Institute of Public Health.
Gist: Sir, How come Public Health?
Dr.: When you think about Medicine, there are usually two dimensions; this is about creative and public health. I can say God brought me to public health because I just discovered that I had a natural skill and my greatest strength is about conceptualization, planning programmes and that is one of the things needed in public health. It also gives me the opportunity to impact lives because a doctor will see one patient but a public health physician can save millions at a time.
Gist: Now sir talking about public health in Nigeria, let us draw a focal point to HIV/AIDS and the Nigerian community as a whole, knowing fully well that Nigeria is the second most infected country after south Africa with over 2.4million cases, why is Nigeria the 2nd largest?
Dr.: The reason Nigeria is the second largest is based on our huge population. Our level in terms of percentage is still 4.8%, some South African countries have over 30% but lesser than us in terms of numbers. Even India is 3rd on the list because of her huge population. We are not near South Africa in equivalence.
Gist: Sir, taking cognizance of the fact that the issue of condoms have being subjected to debate on several occasions, and my research shows that 67% think it is suicidal to use condom on an infected person, how save is the use of condom?
Dr.: To start with, research has shown that many people don’t like condom but in reality what research has shown because I have being to many condom factories where they are produced and I work for an international organization and we looked at what the propensity is, although there is nothing as safe as abstinence, but next is condom for someone who isn’t married but wants to have sex, because condom has a high level of effectiveness. There could be problems with condoms, which are as a result of the fact that people don’t know of how to use it. People assume that all you need to do is open it and wear it, which is not totally true. In fact, one of our challenges is that people in Nigeria, even our university students do not read. If you buy a standard condom package, you find instructions on it. For example, if you are asked to use a lubricant to make your condom smoother and penetrate better, people will tell you that they use Vaseline and it is written there that you must never use an oil based lubricant because they destroy the thickness of the condom. That is the more reason many condoms will burst or break because people act contrary to instructions. Another reason that it may burst is that, in using condoms you are supposed to expel the air at the tip and hold the tip while wearing it on. If it catches air in between, you are setting up pressure and it may burst. Yes, condoms could have problems, just like everything in life, if you use it in the right way, it doesn’t have problems.
Gist: Sir, while in secondary school my teacher told me that for an infected person, HIV/AIDS is contained in all body semen or fluids like saliva among others. How true is this?
Dr.: It is truly contained in all body fluids, all of them, saliva, vagina fluid, sperm fluid that is true.
Gist: Sir, How safe is it for you to go into kissing with an infected person, especially French kissing which has to do with exchange of saliva; we need clarity on this because of conflicting teachings from medical practitioners?
Dr.: The thing is for you to be infected with HIV/AIDS you need to have a particular dose, kissing does not produce that kind of critical dose that will ensure infection. That is why you will not see in a scientific situation, a case of HIV from kissing with the excepting of someone who is bleeding from the mouth or has injury in the mouth then it is not the saliva, but the blood.
Gist: Sir, few of us in our halls of residence have viewed this case critically. Knowing full well that Africa has over 60% of infected cases; some persons will say that AIDS is an American Invention to Discourage Sex, because despite pornography, despite the high level of immorality, coupled with high population and high migration rate of the western world, Africa is the worst hit, how will you disabuse our minds sir?
Dr.: It is not about how sexually active you are, it is about how sexually wise you are. One can have sex severally but doesn’t get infected and someone who had sex twice may be a carrier. In developed countries they have learnt to protect themselves and they use condoms and it is like the normal part of their society. In Africa many people are not using condoms. Another difference is the issue of our social practices. In South Africa for instance they believe that once you are infected, the cure is that you have sex with a virgin, which is complicating the problem. Another is the issue of traditional birth delivery; the persons doing the delivery are ignorant of the virus.
Some of our infections also come from the hospital setting, few persons transfuse unscreened blood, and some of our medical practitioners do not dispose syringe properly among other mistakes. The save blood unit always have few pint of blood and except during an emergency, people don’t donate blood here, only few do unlike advanced countries and so doctors are forced to transfuse unscreened blood because of emergency. The issue of drugs and local scarification is also a problem. More so, Africa and of course Nigeria didn’t rise up to this challenge on time and the infected persons tried to bury their head in the sand like the ostrich and by the time we raise up our head, it has gone into an explosive mood and that is why we are where we are today.
The gist: Sir, a friend of mine is madly in love, but unfortunately the lady is infected with the virus, what will your sincere advice be?
Dr.: It is a choice. The fact that you are HIV positive doesn’t mean that your child will be positive. The question to be asked is her partner also positive? If negative, he must be determined to marry the lady. He can reduce his chance of being infected by using condoms except when they think that they want a baby. The transmission of HIV from a woman to a man is not as efficient as transmission from the man to the woman. This is not unconnected with the fact that the man’s penis has a smaller opening if compared to the female virginal, in terms of its mucus membrane and more so, after sexual intercourse, they sperm is deposited in the woman and the woman’s virginal fluid is only in contact with the man during sex, not after. The chance of a man being infected by a woman is lesser if compared to the other way round. They can see a specialist to do the prevention from mother to child transmission. The chance that the child will be positive is low.
The gist: In OAU, over 85% of are students are yet to know their statue despite the fact that we have National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA)-OAU which gives free HIV/AIDS test yet students are disinterested. Sir, what will say that is the bane behind this?
Dr.: In this country, less than 10% of young people have ever tested. Many young persons feel it can’t happen to them. Also our socio-cultural orientation of, don’t say bad thing to yourself, ‘what you don’t know can’t hurt you’ is also killing us. More so, people have poor perception of risk behavior. You cannot tie the likelihood of a risk to its consequence. Knowing you statue is the best for anyone, Should you be positive, you can start getting care and if you are negative you will stop the risk behaviours.
The gist: Sir, some persons have reported cases where one test negative at the first test and then subsequently tested positive, three months later that he was asked to come? What are the possibilities of what went wrong?
Dr.: What is likely to have happened is that, we have what we call the window period, the body produces antibodies and it is when the test detects the antibodies in their numbers that the statue will be revealed and this could take 3-6months. Or possibly such a person has engaged in risk behavior in between the first and the second test.
The gist: Semoa is a country with the least case of the infection with just 12 cases, how can Nigeria take after her?
Dr.: The good thing is that Nigeria is working very hard. Let me tell you something, our HIV level in Nigeria doesn’t reflect the fact that the infection is increasing, because you must remember that those having the virus and are alive and there are new infections coming, the number will keep growing, not because the number of new infection is particularly very high. Although, we have to check our youth especially between the ages of 16-24, that is the age the index is on the increase.
The gist: Sir, how can Nigeria do a little bit better because someone did say that the Olusegun Obasanjo reign have done better than recent administrations, I was at NACA-OAU and the consultant there was telling those coming to be tested to come back later because the kits were exhausted. How can we better the lots of our people?
Dr.: Our government has to commit far more money to anti-retroviral drugs. What happened during Obasanjo’s time is that he had a lot of support from foreign agency: USAIDS, JICA, CIDA among others and this not good because if you want to fight a problem in you environment you must put your money. We cannot continue to rely on other countries for help. Little wonder we are having problems with kits because the American government is withdrawing and soon we will be having problem with drugs. We cannot continue to expect our countries to be using their own task payers’ money to solve our problem. The Nigerian rulers should know that HIV is not a medical problem but a developmental problem. Should all our youths be infected, who will power the economy? We should fight it with all we have, but people should live responsibly.
The gist: How can we better our awareness programmes about HIV/AIDS sir?
Dr.: Every parent should tell the child(ren) and everyone should be preaching it, even in religious houses. In fact churches and mosques are the best place to talk about sex and about condoms and about protection because they have large congregation of people. They should preach that people should follow God by abstaining, but if they will not, they should use condom. This will save them for the future when they can probably decide to follow God fully. Other awareness mechanisms are town’s meeting. There should also be compulsory general courses for secondary school students and undergraduates on HIV/AIDS. Everybody must carry this message because it is a message of redemption from death that comes from HIV.
The gist: Sir, what can you say about discrimination against people living with AIDS?
Dr.: Discrimination should be discouraged because it makes people go into hiding and does not help. The worst form of stigmatization is self stigmatization; the world is too big to be talking about you. People living with HIV must have confidence. Those that are negative shouldn’t make life worst for the people living with AIDS else maybe they will out of frustration infect someone close to you. Don’t think you are safe because 40% of the cases of HIV in this country happen with the people that have low risk behavior (abstaining).
The gist: Kate Harnshaw a household name in the movie industry did act in a film titled yet another day where she got the virus and decides not to die along and spread it to other persons through sex intercourse; some persons are doing this sir. What is your opinion?
Dr.: This is very unfortunate because it shows that everybody should be careful. To such a person, he is a bit foolish because he is increasing his own chances of much dying younger than he should. The fact you have HIV if you meet another carrier you are in trouble because you may not have a subtype that the other person has and therefore could multiply the intensity of your own infection. More so, such a person is susceptible to other diseases which will affect his immunity. They are only endangering themselves much further.
The gist: What else will you like to tell us sir?
Dr.: To be young is great and the most beautiful part of life, but also the most dangerous part of life, actions always comes with consequences, we choose our actions but we cannot choose our consequences, for every action, ask yourself if you are ready for the consequence. Thank you, Afolabi.
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