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 […]
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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 […]
Bionics And The Future of Hu-Bot
By Williams Owoeye One of the factors that determine the success of a species is its ability to explore, colonize and integrate into a new environment, because a large territory equals a large amount of resources and the more the resources available, the higher the chances of survival for […]
Give A Man A Different Kind Of Crate, He Will Still Climb It
Williams Owoeye The hairs on his back stood on their ends as Busayo could feel the moist heat developing around his buttocks. He has been holding his buttock muscles for so long to maintain his balance on the pile of crates. Just one more step, and he will cross […]
We Are Six Weeks Into The Semester, Yet GES Classes Are Nowhere In Sight
By: AbdulRahman Adebayo Adeniyi Isaiah just finished lunch on a Saturday afternoon in September. He was about to continue his preparation for the first test of a three-unit course scheduled to hold four days later, when this reporter arrived at his room. “We have not had any GES class this […]
Educational Tourism: Our University in the Eyes of the World
By: Habeeb Abdul There were three of them; two tall, long-legged, and covered from head to toe in traditional Muslim wear. The other, a guy, had a slightly darker hue and was shorter compared to the ladies. Now, what struck me was neither their stature (though, being short myself, I […]
University of Startups: Encouraging Innovation among UI Students
By: Habeeb Abdul That our school is the first and best is popular knowledge. But what isn’t quite popular are the many travails that University of Ibadan students face to reach self-actualisation. And while a judgment by the Nigerian context would make that normal, the school still emphasises less on […]
Of Sore Sites and Unending Renovations
By: John ‘Dare Okafor Between 2018 and 2019, halls of residence in the University of Ibadan witnessed a radical facelift in form of renovations, after so many years of neglect from the school management. This brought about joy in the university community as occupants were glad to have witnessed these […]
Should UI Shift Back To Virtual Classes?
By: Adebayo Abdulrahman As the second semester of the 2020/21 academic session of the University of Ibadan finally begins to take shape, there are indications that the institution might announce a return to virtual classes to curtail the spread of the COVID-19, amid fears that the third wave of the […]
Welcome to Indy! For How Long Shall This Pitiable Site Serve As Our Insignia?
By: Theophilus Femi Alawonde We have spent several months away from this campus abode of ours, and your memory might not fully serve you right. Recall however, that Indy used to have a peculiar waste disposal problem. Scratch that – for Indy Hall still has a peculiar waste disposal problem. […]