INDY PRESS

The Great Independence Hall of Residence has nominated 3 student residents to join the Katanga Republic Independent Electoral Commission (KRIEC) for the 2025/2026 academic session.

Caleb P. Owolabi, a 500-level student of the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Ibadan, has been selected as one of 25 Nigerian recipients of the 2026 edition of the Diana Award.

The University of Ibadan contingent has finished as second runners-up at the national grand finale of the 2026 Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Campus Debate.

According to the notice, the Congress is to deliberate on the selection and inauguration of the Katanga Republic Electoral Committee (KREC) ahead of the forthcoming Hall elections.

Professor Peter Olamakinde Olapegba has assumed office as the 14th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, succeeding Professor Kayode Oyebode Adebowale, whose five-year tenure ended on Saturday, October 31, 2026.

Akinteye Babatunde, President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has urged Students’ Union Government (SUG) presidents across Nigerian tertiary institutions to mobilise students against tuition fee increases and to stop shortchanging the essence of unionism for personal benefits from school managements.

The turnout across the Postgraduate Halls of Residence in the ongoing 2025/2026 University of Ibadan Students’ Union election has been notably low. 

An altercation allegedly occurred between residents of Nnamdi Azikiwe Hall of Residence and Great Independence Hall of Residence at the University of Ibadan on Saturday’s afternoon, after the latter trooped out in celebration of Abiola Olaniyi, the president-elect.

Abiola Olaniyi, a 400-level student of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture, has been elected President of the University of Ibadan Students’ Union.