Yahoo – a rude, noisy person , according to the advanced learners’ dictionary.
Yahoo Yahoo – an internet based fraud business.
YAHOO – Young Anointed Highly Outstanding Obedient.
One of the most captivating themes of events I have ever heard in my life, for reasons best known to the ‘reasoner’, didn’t hold. This issue was big enough for me to pick up my rusty pen to write. A while ago, OAU was known to be a hyper active community in entertainment and this made me major my journalism prowess in entertainment. For some time now, the shows are beginning to roll up again and I was glad that after a long time of resting my pen, I would make an historic come back until ...
Hmmm, the month of May came and went with disappointments, I thought it was because these guys on campus are young and naïve. But alas, not only here on campus are shows flopping. The “Tribute to Michael Jackson” show that was meant to have been organized by the Social Director of the SUG was the first. After series of auditioning for interested artistes, my hopes were raised and I thought that was going to be the beginning of a new dawn in the OAU entertainment world. I would not like to mention more names but a couple of other shows were ‘flaw-full’ flops. I am not criticizing, get me right, but proper preparation prevents poor performance, as they say (if only it is true). To criticize these guys will be the worst thing for me to do, because they are a bunch of young determined individuals destined to change the world from their little angle. Imagine Durella’s show at Ilorin f**king up also because something was wrong somewhere. All events held in May were, to a large extent, below expectation. This problem is just inexplicable. That was in May.
In June, comes the most anticipated GOD OF THE YAHOO BOY, extremely creative words, loaded with TRIBUTES and INSULTS, the dictionary meaning perhaps doesn’t make any sense in the Nigeria of our time as the first thing that comes to mind when you hear YAHOO is the second meaning written above or at least to the most innocent of all men, an e-mail address. Is GOD the GOD of a YAHOO boy? Make your yahoo anything, it doesn’t change anything about the total concept. GOD is not mocked and I am not trying to do so. Logistics were said to have been put in place which with my ‘koro-koro’ eyes was not in place. My longest revolutionary dreams of OAU crumbled before my very eyes. Before I get too emotional, I congratulate the sponsors and facilitators of the programme, we hope to see more from you but a more appropriate word is most deserving for a proper event. Sh*t happens, as you said it was post postponed, I hope you would get a quarter filled Amphi on the latter date.
Lastly, don’t make this your last, the pros are failing, only the strong are standing. Remember, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Show us, with a more deserving name, that you can do it; you know what I mean YES GOD IS NOT THE GOD OF A YAHOO BOY.
Segun Adeyemi
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