Adebayo Opeyemi Oluwafemi: Opus

POEM

FOOD

The source of nutrients

My mental stimulus,

The body sculptor,

Thy blessing I seek.

Body creator,

Beauty art,

Belly friend,

Thy hand I seek

Vigour provider,

Vision faculty,

The thoughts drive,

Thy pleasure I seek.

For consummation,

Figure growth,

Rational accordance,

Thy filling I seek.

To source is vital

To build is weighty

To thrive is chief

Therefore, food is life

By Opeyemi Oluwafemi Adebayo

ASUU STRIKE EFFECT ON STUDENT

It cannot be denied that when the strike first begun back in July–it was a thing of relief to students especially the final year students who knows that project deadline was just around the corner. Then students would say let it just go on for few weeks after then should be called off; we will be energized to take any exhausting academic activity that comes our way again. Well, to their dismay, the federal government and ASUU have more in mind than the students had thought.

A month went by; student were still enjoying the stress free disguised holiday planned for them by the federal government and ASUU without complaints, rather fixing in their mind the time they feel the strike should be called to an end. Yes, there were meetings being held at that time between ASUU and the federal government which gave some students hope that the strike wouldn’t be going for so long, but could be called off within a short time. Meetings kept on holding at different times of several weeks till it got to a time that a protest was even initiated by the Joint Action Force which comprises of all educational association of the country meaning the strike is beyond ASUU’s 2009 academic infrastructures and fund implementation, rather it is about the increment of the education fund allocation that is around 6 to 7 percent to 26 percent. To further improve the standard of education in the country, the federal government should include in their annual budget 26 percent education fund allocation.

Two months now and still counting; some students already begun to grumble, complain, lament, clamour, rant, protest and say all sort of things about the effect of the strike on them psychologically, academically, mentally, financially, socially and physically. Some students have been affected negatively as their source of money has been halted and the time it will be resumed is yet unknown, therefore, engage themselves in several things that could get them money and satisfy them socially, financially, physically, psychologically, mentally or academically. Some, still are indifferent about the strike, because they have plans they had set for the summer holiday to carry out; so the strike is only a mere push for them to actually do more plans a for a better result or to kick start earlier for a more rewarding result. Even the final year students cannot deny their indifferent feelings towards the strike as it has prolonged project time for some if not all to start and finish their project.

More than the feelings of some students, the truth is then strike is of no benefit to the students in general rather has only rendered some if not most of the students useless due to idleness and some have even gone into shady deals that has caused the stains. The ladies have even been reported to be engaging in immorality as they haven’t prepared their minds to go on vacation which means going home, rather make use of the time given to them on platter of gold in the disguise of strike to carry out their immoral intentions. Some are moral actually as they marry and get pregnant. The immoral deeds of these ladies have got some of them into trouble; some got pregnant and aborted as they don’t see themselves fit to bare children yet and some that could not abort don’t know the father of their children to be is as there were more than one players that had their mark in their post. The ladies with moral intentions will have ASUU and the federal government to thank for the time given to them to achieve their aims at the same time may be pleading for more time as they will be looking to extend and enjoy their honeymoons, break and other activities they are involved in.

The men, in this case are not so bothered, but concerned. They are not so bothered because they have thought of what life will be for them after graduation, but with this strike they have time to plan and even start something meaningful. But not everyone is thoughtful as some are playing away the time and swaggering around doing all sort of things that is of no benefit to them academically and in every aspect of their life. Due to this strike, some have become fathers, killers, criminals, etc. and many more is feared to be expected.

What then is the ideal thing about this strike; nothing I see, not anything meaningful. The reason for the strike initially was defeated by a greater one–even the greater one is yet to be met not to talk of the initial one to be implemented. Why the suffering? The government on one hand is not bothered as they are busy with their political selfish ambition, which they have placed above as their major priority while education as their minor one. The strike has not improved the students academically; instead it has taken from many. It is now a thing of “no private school no quality education” because there is no quality in what is done at intervals rather on a stretch and well done at once.

The strike should be called off, but on the basis of the government including 26 percent education fund allocation into the country’s budget and meeting ASUU 2009 implementation. The government should consider the students, because they are the morrow’s nation builder or destroyer depending on how they are treated and taught today.

By Opeyemi Oluwafemi Adebayo

Field of Life

In the field of life-

There’s a cause to strife.

For us to thrive-

We all must strive.

There are oppositions-

Beware of commotions.

Give no suppositions,

Attacks are no assumptions.

As a team we play-

With a goal every day.

The drive to win,

The play all have seen.

Every tactics with a pass-

Is a marriage with the grass.

The children of the couple;

Others it can topple

With hands on deck

There’ll be no wreck

For a goal-

Is a radiation of every role

by Opeyemi Oluwafemi Adebayo

BE THE CHANGE

Enough with the preaching

And halt the feeding.

Words are dead- when-

There are no trails read.

Now! Sojourn your thought-

Don’t let your muscle rot,

Give light to your mind-

And raise your strength a kind.

For to heed is good-

As to let wounds rebuild.

Be it for history’s sorrow,

Now you set for morrow.

Heed to the arcane one,

Life is but one.

by Opeyemi Oluwafemi Adebayo

BE CREATIVE

Being creative

May be addictive

To think right-

Is less might

Rest your muscle

To pen a puzzle

Let your words scream

Bring to pass a dream

Strike men in the heart

Thrust through them like dart

Make the world reason new

But make those that ponder few

Turn your ink to a print,

Let your lines run a sprint

Form a thoughtful world of track

That their pace may run the track

Make the world innovative

And let their thoughts associative

For the word makes the world

So pen and make it called

That the living-

May reason

And those that read

May lead

By,

Adebayo, Opeyemi Oluwafemi

QUOTES

To conquer fear you must become fear; you must bask in the fear of other men.