"WHEN OUR RESULTS ARE RELEASED, THEY ARE ALWAYS MIND BLOWING” - Zion.

NCB: I am Eniola. I’ll be your interviewer for tonight’s interview session. So, can you tell us about yourself?

FYB: My name is Zion Ayomide Shittu. I am currently a part 4 student of English, OAU. A fashion designer and a totebag seller. I am also passionate about content creation (my recently found interest). I love to try new meals but my stomach won’t let me (I purge a lot, lol). Lastly, I have a dream of trying all kinds of skydiving.

NCB: Oh my! Skydiving. So, you’re one of those people who love to try out seemingly “dangerous” activities.Hmm… interesting stuff!

FYB: Yes, dangerous is fun.

NCB: Wow! “Dangerous is fun”….Prof. Zion Ayomide Shittu (lol). You seem to have a lot of interesting things going on. How did you get to be in English department?

FYB: I wrote JAMB to study Law at first but didn’t meet the cut-off. Then, I went for an A’level program and took the direct entry form for Law again but at this time, it was dis-accredited. So I had to pick something else or pick another school. I was already a huge fan of OAU and I wasn’t a die-hard fan of Law anyway so, English was the other best choice I had and I just went for English.

NCB: Basically, your love for OAU is what made you settle for English. What exactly about OAU was fascinating to you?

FYB: Nothing much, just that my parents hyped this school and it’s “greatness” so much that my mum kept mentioning how she always wanted us, her children, to go to OAU before we were even born.

Second, my brother was here too before me, so I didn’t do too much thinking, I just followed suit.

NCB: Hmm. I get it. And what’s your view on the “greatness” of Great Ife?

FYB: No words.

NCB: Madam Zion, Let there be words ma’am. (Lols)

FYB: OAU is great. Very great. The lecturers are superb, very hardworking, they hardly miss classes and they teach with so much passion. The lecture rooms are super comfortable too. Sometimes, I don’t want to leave and when our results are released, they are always “MIND BLOWING” (sheds a tear).

NCB: I love this beautiful response. Let’s touch down here, for awhile. Using English department as a case study, can you let us in on how “mind blowing” the department is? In terms of its lecturers, its operations and most importantly, the results.

FYB: You sha want to squeeze words out of my mouth. Yeah, I mean, when your seniors tell you not to bother dreaming of graduating with a first class and you trace history and confirm it to be true, you can already imagine how bad it is. Thankfully, in recent years, we have been having at least 1 or 2 first class students out of 300+ students, is that not mind blowing? I don’t know why but the results just never seem to agree with most student’s efforts.

NCB: With this response, I can deduce accurately that you surely must have enjoyed all the years you’ve spent here. Isn’t that correct?

FYB: Yes oh, I have really enjoyed all my years here that I can’t wait to leave already.

NCB: Ahahan. Aunty Zion why na? Are you now running away from us ni?

FYB:You know what they say about sugar? It is too sweet that it can give you diabetes. I don’t want the sweetness of OAU to wound me. It is sad but I have to leave.

NCB: By the way, what are your favourite or least favourite courses so far?

FYB: I have a flair for writing and the only course that allowed me explore this was EGL205 (Advanced English composition), so that’s my best course so far. For least favorite course, I would say EGL303 (History of English). Everybody said it was a walkover but it was a headache for me, probably because of the “history” attached to it. I hate whatever looks like history and dates.

NCB: Okay, cool. Let’s go back to the beginning. How did you become a fashion designer?

FYB: I was passionate about being creative with my hands, decorating the church and anything fashion related. My mum noticed this and made sure I learnt fashion designing after my A’level studies just before I gained admission into OAU so that I won’t just be sitting at home, lol.

NCB: Alright. Anyway, what’s next after B.A English? Let me guess. Masters degree, Go into fashion fully, have a YouTube channel for food. Which one of the options?

FYB: Masters, by the grace of God.

NCB: Awn. What’s your advice for the junior students of the department?

FYB: Just do your best, check your portal but resist every urge calculate your GP.

NCB: This is hilarious. I’ll put that to use ma’am. Are you in a relationship?

FYB: That’s pretty straightforward. Yes, I am in a relationship.

NCB: Awn, so cute! I just wanted to know ni…na curiosity wan finish me. Because this intelligent, skillful, wise and definitely beautiful woman is going to be a blessing to whomever it is.

FYB: Thank you.

NCB: Do you have any shout outs?

FYB: Yes oh, to my friends from JUPEB —Travis, Victor, Faith, Paul, Seth, Demilade, Jelilat. I love you all!! Thank you for making my stay on this campus a beautiful one.

NCB: Amazing. Thank you so much for making out time to talk to us this evening. I wish you the very best in all you do. And please send me pictures when you go skydiving (lols).

FYB: Amen, thank you. You’re welcome. Thank you for having me.

NCB: It was such a pleasure.