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UI launches Antimicrobial Resistance Club

By – Sonaike Peter The management of the University of Ibadan on Friday, June 14th, 2024 launched an ‘Antimicrobial Resistance Club’ at the Faculty of Social Science’s Large Lecture Theater. During the launch, Professor Ayodele Jegede from the Department of Sociology stressed the importance of responsible antibiotic use and health […]

Civic Club to Hold Virtual Symposium on Nationhood

By: Sonaike Peter The Civic Club, University of Ibadan is set to hold its maiden symposium themed “A Nation In Search of Justification”. The Club whose vision is to promote political participation and democracy will hold her inaugural symposium virtually on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Speakers at the web-based event are […]

Stanbic IBTC to Host “Invest Beta Campus Play” in UI

By: Sonaike Peter Stanbic IBTC, an investment banking franchise in Nigeria is set to host “InvestBeta”, an initiative to improve financial literacy among young adults. The event will be held on Thursday, June 20th, 2024, at the Dame Edith Okowa Auditorium (Alumni Hall), University of Ibadan. Participants will have the […]

The Die Is Cast: ‘Aluta Continua’

‘Alea iacta est’. Those were the exact words Julius Caesar uttered in 49BC after crossing the Rubicon River, signaling his intent to wage war against Pompey. There was no turning back, he declared. As students return into the University gate this new session, this turn of words should echo around. […]

Fees Through the Roof – Students’ Anthem

By: Sonaike Peter Envision a world devoid of education — a nation with an education sector in paralysis should shutter through your mind. The mere thought should conjure images of darkness, regression, underdevelopment, and crises, blooming over the country. “Education is the most powerful weapon which can be used to […]

UI vs UITES: Social Contract or Democracy?

By – Nnamdi Maduabuchi The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines democracy as “government by the people” or more robustly “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections”. In the real […]

To Be Fresh, Crisp and Unconventional

By – Benedict Ugor Gee! You made it into the premier University. An institution, which is numerically not only the fess, but in no uncertain terms the bess. Factually, ‘Ibadan‘ is first in sub-Saharan Africa, sixth in Africa, and shortly to be seen the first in the world. Congratulations, congratulations, […]