‘’Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow’’ – Mary Tyler Moore With the memory of the festivities of the holiday firmly behind us, being nothing but a backwards glance revisited for the purpose of remembrance, a new reality has fully set in. School has resumed! Now, that exclamation means […]
Editorial
The Baton Has Been Passed: The Race Continues!
“When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton […]
Indy Hall Politics And The Need To Look In The Right Direction
“Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop where few have dared to go.” – Steve Jeffer What happens if a situation is approached with the same method, over and over again? It is quite simple; the results of such attempts would be inevitably the same. […]
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”. […]
Dear UITES, This Semester Is Upon Us!
“Time slips away like grains of sand never to return again.” — Robin Sharma Time; stealth in its ways, and quick to slip by. Among us, no one is powerful enough to stop the march of time or slow it down. We either kill time or we save time. Sometimes, […]
Discussing Weighty Matters: Indy’s Hallowed Chambers And The Seeming Hollowness Of Its Holy Book
If the foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do? — The Christians’ Holy Book Laws are fundamental to the continued existence of any one group. It is in relation to this that the maxim, “where there is no law, there is no crime” was generated. The reason? Simple: […]
The Katanga Alumni Association and the Memorabilia of Progress: A Call to Action and Civility
Over the past few weeks, Katangites have witnessed some remarkable purchases and some notable changes in some blocks in the hall. The mystery behind all of this was unravelled on Friday, 27th of August 2021, when the Indy Hall Alumni Association commissioned the newly renovated reading rooms of the Great […]
Indy Hall Executive Council: Building Castles in the Air?
“Leadership is not about titles, position or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.’’ – John C. Maxwell John Maxwell must have committed thoughts to years of human history and relations to arrive at such an apt qualification of the term, leadership. True to his quote, leadership is less […]
Indy Hall And Its Diamond Anniversary: Something Shiny To Celebrate?
On 21 September 1961, the then Minister of Education and University of Ibadan alumnus, Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu, was on the university campus to make a historic official opening of a new hall of residence — the third male hall of residence and the fifth of all University of Ibadan halls. As […]
Change: Inevitability, Adaptability, and Gratitude
Change is an over-flogged issue in many quarters, and the fact that it has left a sour taste on Nigerians’ mouths does not help matters when talking about concepts such as this. Nonetheless, one of the fundamental features of the phenomenon is that is is inevitable; it is bound to […]