By: Ochi, Maduabuchi The Leeds University Nigeria Alumni and a committee of friends will on Saturday 13th July, 2024, hold a 1-day celebration for the 90th birthday of Professor Wole Soyinka, foremost Nigerian literary icon. The celebration is slated to hold at Drapers Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of […]
By: Sonaike Peter On the 23rd of April, 2024, the street of Agbowo bore witness to an incident highlighting its insecure road conditions. Aloba Jonathan, a 300 level student of the Faculty of Education and avid Chelsea fan, had been eagerly anticipating the football match between Arsenal and Chelsea scheduled […]
By: Sonaike Peter The Vice-Chancellor of University of Ibadan, Professor Adebowale Kayode on Thursday, 11th of July, 2024, commended the wife of the Executive Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Olayemi Jumoke for being a good ambassador of the University. Professor Adebowale gave the remark during a courtesy by Dr. Olayemi […]
By: Ajadi Sodiq At an inflation rate of 31.7%, according to nairametrics, Nigeria is currently ranked 13th amongst countries with the highest inflation rate. It is an easy guess that Nigeria would be one of the top countries suffering from the grappling grasp of inflation. Despite Nigeria’s Vision 2020 for […]
By: Ochi Maduabuchi The Group Chairman of International Energy Services Limited, Dr Diran Fawibe, on Thursday, July 11th 2024, decorated as a UI@75 Ambassador, at the headquarters of the International Energy Services Limited in Lagos by the Registrar, Mr Ganiyu Saliu. Speaking on his experience as an indigent student, Dr. […]
By: Toriola Adedayo [Contributor] “We learn from history that we do not learn from history” is a statement by Georg Hegel, a German philosopher, depicting the recompensation a nation gets for losing its touch with history. Or in the Nigerian case, to rattle in the darkness of its own past. […]
By: Bamijoko Favour The Thursday Film Series, University of Ibadan, in collaboration with the Department of English, the University Media Center, and IFRA-Nigeria has on Thursday, 11th of July, 2024, hosted the screening of Kola Tubosun’s documentary on Wole Soyinka, titled ‘Ebrohimie Road; a Museum of Memories’, at Drapers Hall, […]
By: Mayowa Adekola Peculiar To some people, Lionel Messi is the greatest among the footballers of the current century. Messi mesmerizes the world with his mercy of mastery, which is why many crave his jersey. In fact, to the naive and old, every goal is Messi’s. But what in the […]
By: Bamijoko Favour For the man, everything is perhaps an endless chain of enactments. Only few Africans, in modern times, have enacted a life seemingly larger-than-life like the man, Wole Soyinka. And, as far as Soyinka’s theatrics and enactments are concerned, anywhere is his stage — school, a radio station, […]
By: Sonaike Peter In a candid reflection on campus life, Biola Funwonton, a hearing impaired final-year student of Special Education, speaks about the pervasive inequality faced by students with disabilities. Without emotions, despite an initial hesitation due to heedless frequent media engagements to the plight, Biola revealed the stark challenges, […]
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