By: Habeeb Abdul You are at it again. Filling your jotter with grand ideas. For your mind, this business na your thing. Mirrors for the blind, coffins for the living. Nothing wey you no fit sell. Osheyy! Abiodun Bezos. Lost child of Elon Musk. As per how you sabi, you […]
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Updates from the Department of Ailing CGPA
By: Daniel Echoda The illness began from the first year we got into UI. We began by joining any and every organization, majority of which are totally unrelated to what we want to do with our lives. As freshmen, it was only a matter of weeks before we became famous […]
UI SU Elections: The Politics of the Tamed
By: Timilehin Precious Akinmoyeje “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” — Rick Warren A look into the political sphere at the University of Ibadan would reveal a recurring cycle; lofty plans, managerial interference, conflicts of interest, and failed promises. More often […]
The Patriarchal Naira Notes
By: Covenant Odedele This is in no way to burst your bubble or throw a spanner into your easy-going wheel. Fellow Nigerians, stand at attention and reason with me on this thought process. Have you ever noticed that there is no woman on the upfront of any Nigerian currency, from […]
Dreamland of Snoring Mortals
By: John Dare Okafor Trust me, there’s nothing annoying in life like the inability to sleep because the next person in the room is snoring heavily. It gets more annoying when you have had a long day, and the plan is to come back home to have a goodnight rest […]
Entrepreneurship and Studentship: Finding the Nexus between these Heavyweights
By: Olamilekan Oke Entrepreneurship does not mean being a CEO of a company as most people assume. As it takes much time and hard work for you to claim being the CEO of a company. Being a student on the other hand is a task on its own that requires […]
Campus Issues with Amazon Maintenance Culture: Decorative Dirt
By: Priscilla Ayodele “Look at my toe,” a girl chips in. “I bruised it right in front of the SU building two days ago. I hit it against an iron which I think is the remains of what used to be a pipe or something of the sort at that […]
The UI SU Week has Come and Gone, or has it Gone, Really? An Appraisal of UI Market
By: Toluwalope Ayeye The UI SU Week ran from Tuesday the 21st to Saturday the 25th of this month. For virtually all students at the University of Ibadan, it was the first Students’ Union week they would be experiencing. If anything, what this meant was that there was no scale […]
Whoever is Faithful in Little Things, Will Also Be Faithful with Much: An Appraisal of Indy Hall Floor Reps (Part 1)
By: Kelvin Omachonu “In my first year at the University of Ibadan, as I climbed up the stairs to my new abode in C63, I was faced with uncertainties. Are the toilets fine? How do I secure my belongings? Will there be adequate power supply on my floor? However, a […]
Wailing Walls and Vandalist Aspirants: Two-Kobo Thoughts on the Disregard for Public Property
Culture is easily contractible; it takes one person to perform an act, and then the act spreads like a fire, catching all members of a clan, till it becomes the clan’s tradition. In no time, the people define this act as “our act”, “how we do things” or “the norms”. […]