By: Ochi Maduabuchi The Group Chairman of International Energy Services Limited, Dr Diran Fawibe, on Thursday, July 11th 2024, decorated as a UI@75 Ambassador, at the headquarters of the International Energy Services Limited in Lagos by the Registrar, Mr Ganiyu Saliu. Speaking on his experience as an indigent student, Dr. […]
By: Toriola Adedayo [Contributor] “We learn from history that we do not learn from history” is a statement by Georg Hegel, a German philosopher, depicting the recompensation a nation gets for losing its touch with history. Or in the Nigerian case, to rattle in the darkness of its own past. […]
By: Bamijoko Favour The Thursday Film Series, University of Ibadan, in collaboration with the Department of English, the University Media Center, and IFRA-Nigeria has on Thursday, 11th of July, 2024, hosted the screening of Kola Tubosun’s documentary on Wole Soyinka, titled ‘Ebrohimie Road; a Museum of Memories’, at Drapers Hall, […]
By: Mayowa Adekola Peculiar To some people, Lionel Messi is the greatest among the footballers of the current century. Messi mesmerizes the world with his mercy of mastery, which is why many crave his jersey. In fact, to the naive and old, every goal is Messi’s. But what in the […]
By: Bamijoko Favour For the man, everything is perhaps an endless chain of enactments. Only few Africans, in modern times, have enacted a life seemingly larger-than-life like the man, Wole Soyinka. And, as far as Soyinka’s theatrics and enactments are concerned, anywhere is his stage — school, a radio station, […]
By: Sonaike Peter In a candid reflection on campus life, Biola Funwonton, a hearing impaired final-year student of Special Education, speaks about the pervasive inequality faced by students with disabilities. Without emotions, despite an initial hesitation due to heedless frequent media engagements to the plight, Biola revealed the stark challenges, […]
By: Ugor Benedict Early January this year, Neuralink, an American neurotechnological company owned by Elon Musk successfully implanted a brain chip in a 29-year-old volunteer patient, Noland Arbaugh. The event, which involved a surgical procedure of inserting a small chip in the brain, allowed Arbaugh, a quadriplegic paralyzed from shoulders […]
By: Ochi, Maduabuchi In the words of Ojo Aderemi, the President of the Students’ Union in 2017 to his successors, “due process and protests are the same”. “Protests are a process to get what’s due,” he noted. Seen through this meticulous lens, it seems like the recent steps of the […]
By: Favour Bamijoko The Thursday Film Series, University of Ibadan, in collaboration with the Department of English, the University Media Center, and IFRA-Nigeria, is set to hold a special screening, which is also part of a global premiere of the documentary, Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory, to mark the […]
By: Sonaike Peter Two 100-level students and residents of the Great Independence Hall, Demilade Giwa-Balogun and Israel Bolarinwa, on Tuesday, 9th July, 2024, emerged winner for spelling Bee Contest and first runner-up respectively at the UI’SU oratory inter-hall competition, held at NFLT, UI. Speaking with IndyPress, the winner for Spelling […]
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