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AMCOS MEDIA:
wakes you up at 6: am Monday class for a particular course for a
morning so that you can go for your 8: while now and finally, you decided to
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closer and let's be intimate".
9). At the beginning of the semester
aunching AMCOS Media in explained his desire to build student At the first floor was a beautiful lady the Department of Mass with relevant skills needed in the with a smiling face, fair and chubby Communication, University media profession and to impact them with a foreign assent. 'Good with the experience also. morning and welcome to As at October 2018, all social media ***Assurance Company PLC, how platforms were created and named may I help you?' I was so impressed AMCOS Creativities but later and I also responded with phonetics AMCOS Media by January, 2019. The that I was scheduled for an media has grown interviewBut thence, we made a within six months to team: Daud Adebayo (Head, Print have produced two Sequence) assisted by Preye 10). While getting ready to write an
online magazines, Campbell; Lawal Mayowa (Head, exam, you saw your colleagues with
fifteen episodes of Broadcast Sequence), assisted by graph sheet, calculator, pencil and
various TV series, Adedugbe Opeyemi; Uriel Idowu ruler. ( you be like: what! What's
and also about five (Head, Marketing Communications wrong with these people? As far as I
M a r k e t i n g Sequence), assisted by Olateju can remember we were not taught
Communication Abowaba; Adedeji Clement anything close to calculation or
tutorials. (Director of Photography), assisted drawing nah).
by Omowumi Olubanjo; Jegede 11). You've been under a lecture for a
Oluwabukola (Media Manager), while and in your mind you were
assisted by Olamide Olayeri; and thinking that the lecture should
O p e y e m i A d e s i n a have lasted for more than an hour by
(Producer/Managing Director), now but when you checked your
of Ilorin was rather rooted in mixed
feeling. Many people didn't
understand the scope and mode of
operation. Questions arose, such as:
“Is it an online TV? Is it only for mass
Yemi Adedugbe- Host of Opinions (The Talk Show)
AMCOS Media is set
communication students? How will up as a media agency
it run? Among others. As a digital to function in Print Journalism,
platform by the association of mass Broadcast Journalism and Marketing
communication students, University Communications. Hence, we deliver
of Ilorin, AMCOS Media is on News, features, photography,
purposefully to produce contents, r e v i e w s ,
groom students and be a professional magazine
student-owned and student-run publication, TV
media agency in Nigeria. s h o w s ,
am lecture but you decided to sleep attend for the first time. But as the
for 5 minutes more. On waking up, it lecturer enters the class, he said
was already 7:30. You quickly jumped "Good afternoon class, please tear a
out of bed, rushed down to the sheet of paper" (you be like, wait! for
to mid-semester, this is how your
prayer sounds like: Lord I thank you
for everything see me through,
perfect me, you know am very busy,
bathroom, got yourself ready, fought what? I hope it's not what I'm
for bus at the bus stop and you finally thinking). bless my hustle. Amen". But when it
got a bus around 8:30. On getting to 7). After you've read so hard
the school gate you found out that overnight because of a test and you be like: Father, I know I'm a sinner.
you left your ID card at home (and got to the class the next day with your
you be like chaii they are following head really hot ready for the test. The
comes to exam period, your prayer
I've been astray; I didn't have time
for you. Please forgive me. (You
better repent)
assisted by Imisi Adeoye. AMCOS lecturer then comes in and says lecturer then comes in and says time, it's just 5Mins. ( you be like
Media also had "Students due to some certain "Students due to some certain dear lord when will you deliver me?
creative people logistics, the test won't hold logistics, the test won't hold again". Am dying of boredom).
who came up with again".me). (you be like no o, never! which 12). You've managed to endure a very
ideas almost 5). You were patient and good logistics? This test must hold. I refuse long lecture and you are finally
immediately such student enough to wait in the class to read in vain). relieved. Then the lecturer says
as Rebecca for a 2 to 4 lecture. After waiting from 8). At the beginning of a semester, "That will be all for today. Any
Okoyomon (Sports 2:00 to 3:30pm you decided to leave you be like: No o, I don't take Garri. questions? ". You knew that after
Trends), Rodiat the class and go home. On getting Come on! Even if I will take it at all, it that word, the expected response is
Jokodolu (Soul home, you received a call from your will be with milk, fried fish or meat NO' and the lecturer dismisses the
A d v i c e ) , colleague that the lecturer just and plenty of groundnuts. But The Startup Experience class. But unfortunately for you,
Oluwatumininu Lawal (My Guest entered and is about to give a test. towards the end of the semester, you revealed his experience during people started raising their hands to
The foundation of the media agency and I) among others. (You be like: why are these people be like: "Bro Garri, I'm sorry for the internship and the need for skills in ask questions. (you be like: what's
wasn't a tea party. There was way I have been treating you. I'm the current media world, he AMCOS Media is strongly built on like this now? This is wickedness). doing all these people nah? Are you
absolutely nothing to start with faith in God. Even when everything 6). You've not been attending the now a changed person, please come not tired ni? ).
This initiative was driven by the
vision of Opeyemi Adesina, President
of the Association of Mass
Communication Students
(AMCOS), University of Ilorin for
the 2018/2019 academic session. As he
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