By: Daniel Echoda Nafisat Adebusola Ogunsesan and Olamilekan Olamide Adebanjo both law students at the University of Ibadan made it to the top 10 out of many entries received from several universities across Nigeria for the 2021 edition of the SimmonsCooper Advocacy Development (SCAD) competition. The top 10, which were […]
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What Happens When Cars Develop Wings?
By: James Arikpo “Whatever goes up surely comes down, but age climbs like a stubborn monkey and refuses to come down, never.” While we would judge the above as true, careful study shows that not only age has this ability. It is reliable to say that a variable such as […]
Tête-a-Tête: An Entrepreneur’s Tips to his Compatriots
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 […]
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 […]