By: Oluwapelumi King The cost of foodstuffs and essential commodities in recent years has always been a bane for many Nigerians. A lot of Nigerians have had to cut off many of their financial responsibilities and made sacrifices to meet up with the ever-rising cost of these foodstuffs and other […]
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A Sermon On Mount Hindy: Aroism In A Way That Pleases The Lord
Preacher: Lord Whistledown Text: The Gospel according to St. Zeek 2:33 I am the voice of one that cries in the Quadrangle, heed my voice. For I have not come to abolish the tradition, but I have come to fulfill them. The strength of a society lies in its traditions. […]
Times Are Hard But They Are Harder For Unibadan Students
Dear Reader, It is rare in the history of circumstances for everything we ever thought terrible to happen at the same time. From lateness on the rent, and overload at the workplace, to emergencies back home, it’s all enough to make adults plop on their behinds and be justifiably tempted […]
Indy, Idia, Mascot Debacle: Who Slapped Who?
By: Lord Whistledown Several questions and debates have been left lingering and unattended to in the UI students’ community, over the years. Of these controversies, there is the question of uneven distribution of electricity to halls of residence in the University. There is also the lingering debate on verbal harassment, […]
‘Aro’ Causes Uproar in Indy hall, Mascot Whisked Away by Security Officers
There was mild commotion in the Great Independence hall on Monday night after some residents of Queen Idia hall trooped into the male hostel to fetch water. There was no power in Idia hall, hence the need to fetch water in the nearest hostel. It was alleged that students in […]
Indy Press Editor, Two Others Win Hague Institute Hackathon, Get €1000
Indy Press News Editor, Adebayo Abdulrahman, Olúwábùkúnmi Abraham Awóṣùsì, a 400 Level UI History Student and Oladeji Comfort, a final year Law student of the University of Lagos, have won the Hague Institute for Innovation and Law (HiiL) Hackathon in Lagos. The team of three were declared winners of the […]
UI Student Emerges EFCC Essay Competition Second Prize Winner
[L-R Second Runner Up, Omotoso Sodiq, and EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa] By Aduwo, Ayodele A 400-level student of the University of Ibadan and a resident of Independence Hall, Omotoso Abiola Sodiq has emerged the second prize winner in the 2021 EFCC Challenge Essay Competition, INDYPRESS reports. Omotoso Sodiq, a Mechanical […]
The APC Convention: Reflections, Thoughts, and Lessons
By: Emmanuel Utibe 00:01 am on Wednesday, 8th of June 2022, just halfway through the working week, several persons in the country were awake and vividly glued to their screens, a significant number of those people were young people. Contrary to the notion of what you might think, it wasn’t […]
It is Sunday in Nigeria
By: John Eriomala It is Sunday in Nigeria. Well, it was Sunday in Nigeria. Today is Monday, the 6th of June, 2022 and it’s been over twelve hours since Owo happened. No details. You know. You watched a video or read a news report. You saw tweets from witnesses and […]
Asuu Strike: Distress as UI Finalists Lament Over Lingering Strike
By: Ajadi Sadiq It’s no longer news that it’s been over 100 days since the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) embarked on an indefinite warning strike. This is following the failure of the Federal government to bow to the wishes of ASUU on ways of payment, which has gotten most […]
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