NASELS-LASU Editorial

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE 10TH NASELS-LASU SPORTS DIRECTOR - COMR. SALIU, DAMILOLA OLALEKAN   Good day, Mr sports director. Please tell us about yourself. My name is Saliu Oluwadamilola Olalekan. I’m a student of English literature in the prestigious Lagos State University. I am the 10th NASELS LASU sports director. So, what are your plans for the new semester? For the semester, I, together with my committee members plan to hold preliminary stages of all sporting activities which would see the finals of each of these activities take place on the NASELS Sports Day. Oh, sounds interesting. What exactly are these sporting activities? Activities such as board games (chess and scrabble), table tennis, football(both male and female), football trivia(first of its kind) and track racing. Also, there is something special we have for the students of the department which was heavily inspired by the students well-being. This centers around the physical and mental state of the students where by we ...

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE BEST GRADUATING STUDENT OF THE 2023/24 ACADEMIC SESSION  - Good day, Soore. It's nice to have you here. Can you please introduce yourself? Tell us what you'd like people to know about you.  Hi. My name is Oluwasoore Akinfe. I’m a graduate from the Department of English, Lagos State University. I enjoy learning, traveling, and binge-watching comedy & crime fighting series. People say I’m creative, I agree, and in the future, my ideas will change the world.  - You graduated from the Department of English. Was English your first choice or you wanted something else? English was my first choice.  - How was the journey through this course? Any challenges? There were a few challenges along the way but there’s nothing God cannot handle. He made the journey easy for me.  - Did you ever envisage yourself as the Best Graduating Student of this department? No, I didn’t. At least not until final year. I always knew I was good and I would be among t...

Back to the Greatest ‘Gba Gba’: Heartbreaks as Resumption Bursts Forth   Resumption dawns as the curtains of May fall and June opens a fresh window. With the exams ending just a week earlier and students having not as long as they want to spend for holiday, getting back to school on the 3rd of June is received with mixed feelings. While some people are eager to return to school, some wish for holidays as long as River Nile. However, it is a common knowledge that the second semester does not only come with a tight academic schedule, it comes with ‘gbas’ on the right and ‘gbos’ on the left: elections, LASUSU week, faculty weeks, departmental weeks, sports tournaments, symposiums, block parties, fairs, and finally, the exams. For the set of people who are eager to dive into this phase, first, we have a set of students have no ‘happy home'. These students obviously did not enjoy a second out of the time they spent at home. They have missed waking up by 12pm on a Saturday and staying up...