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‘God And UI Made Me What I Am Today’ – Dr. Diran Fawibe

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. […]

TFS Premieres “Ebrohimie Road; Museum of Memories”, Olufadeke Soyinka, Tunde Kelani, Others Present

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, […]

You Can Be The Next Big Thing

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 […]

Kongi Through the Years

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, […]

Is Inclusivity For Special Students Too Much To Ask For?

By: Sonaike Peter In a candid reflection on campus life, Biola Funwonton, a hearing-impaired final-year student of Special Education, spoke about the pervasive inequality faced by students with disabilities. Despite initial hesitation, stemming from numerous media engagements that often overlook their plight, Biola revealed the stark challenges he and his […]

Neuralink’s First Human Trial Participant Can Control a Computer Mouse With His Brain

­By: Ugor Benedict Early January this year, Neuralink, an American neurotechnological company owned by Elon Musk successfully implanted a brain chip in a 29-year-old volunteer patient, Noland Arbaugh. The event, which involved a surgical procedure of inserting a small chip in the brain, allowed Arbaugh, a quadriplegic paralyzed from shoulders […]

Aluta Continua: Is Victory Certain?

By: Ochi, Maduabuchi In the words of Ojo Aderemi, the President of the Students’ Union in 2017 to his successors, “due process and protests are the same”. “Protests are a process to get what’s due,” he noted. Seen through this meticulous lens, it seems like the recent steps of the […]

Two Katangites Win at UI’SU Inter-hall Oratory Competition

By: Sonaike Peter Two 100-level students and residents of the Great Independence Hall, Demilade Giwa-Balogun and Israel Bolarinwa, on Tuesday, 9th July, 2024, emerged winner for spelling Bee Contest and first runner-up respectively at the UI’SU oratory inter-hall competition, held at NFLT, UI. Speaking with IndyPress, the winner for Spelling […]

UI To Host “The Electoral Hub” In July

By: Feranmi Gabriel The University of Ibadan has concluded arrangements to grant an audience to a grantee from ‘The Electoral Hub’, which is an affiliate of the Initiative for Research, Innovation, and Advocacy. The Electoral Hub is a non- governmental organisation known for promoting electoral knowledge, accountability, and integrity. The […]