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The true purpose of education lies not merely in imparting knowledge but in awakening minds. The philosophical roots of what is apparently known today as ‘academic freedom’ can be traced back to the Enlightenment era when European thinkers – Immanuel Kant (a professor of logic), John Locke (Oxford don) and others – challenged the monopoly of monarchy rule over the production and nature of circulation of knowledge at the time. During the 17th and 18th centuries, several universities including Leiden University, the University of Göttingen, the University of Edinburgh, gradually shifted from being institutions that primarily served elite political interests to spaces where inquiry, skepticism and scientific reasoning gained legitimacy and became prominent.

Dangote launched its Petroleum IPO on Monday, September 14, 2026, and in less than a few hours, the subscription orders were reported to have totaled around N1.5 trillion, nearly 70% of the N2.15 trillion the company is targeting over its entire month-long window.

In Nigeria and across the world, various professional examinations exist for different professions, ranging from accounting, law and medicine to nursing, pharmacy, engineering and other regulated professions. These examinations are often required before an individual can become a fully recognised member of a profession, regardless of whether the person graduated with a First Class or a Second Class Upper from the university.

It is not a cliché that the mind of an average UIte is constantly engaged and disturbed by the suffocating weight of academic rigour, constant struggle to catch up with daily demand, for some an unending reading marathons which may be in form of Till Day Back (TDB) or Morning Till Night reading. The sheer unpredictability of campus survival is what makes the in-betweens every student have critical to their mental sanity.

Suppose rain washes a leopard’s spots away, then, perhaps, the ‘big cat’ could be mistaken for another. Maybe one could assume the washed leopard is a cat or a rat (anything is possible, you know). With the absent coated spots, a pet mom could decide to adopt it and treat it like a domestic cat. But a leopard will always be a leopard. Can the same be said of our union?

Campus life is hardly short of events and activities that compete for students’ time and attention. Activities like social events, academic or niche based events are not scarce to find, with each program offering different value to prospective audiences. While this exists, rarely are these interests appealed to without a disturbing emphasis on incentives.

After nearly four academic sessions of operating on an 11-week lecture calendar, the University of Ibadan is returning to a 13-week schedule. Although many students have welcomed the decision as a sign that the university is gradually restoring normalcy after years of disruptions, one important question remains: does adding two more weeks genuinely improve the quality of education, or is it simply another compromise on the long road back to academic normalcy?

At every tertiary institution, newly admitted students, often referred to as freshers, are introduced to campus life through orientation programmes. 

No matter how hard you try, you really cannot avoid contemplating the shoddiness of the current crop of aspirants vying for executive post at the student union level. The shoddiness of the manifestoes? The dissonance of their statements? The age-old responses? The bare-faced patronage? The lacklustre performance? Above all, the […]