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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, […]

Buga Like Mr Presido

By: Linus Nice Ehen! E don happen. Nah the tori I bring come. The perfect opportunity don land. Literally smash your academic goals like eggs, while bending to collect bucks. Believe me, the whole process is smooth and seamless, and its end, you will buga like a President would. Sit […]

Bread Crumbs, Pain To My Soul

By – Onymous wish I was better reading the signs cause damn she takes my breath away so much that I loudly exclaim my lost for words. A part of me says I assume and do too much, other part be noticing your deeds and all your moves Put your […]

Students React To ‘Stakeholders’ Meeting Resolves

By: Sonaike Peter Students of the University of Ibadan have reacted to the resolutions culling from the ‘student stakeholders’ meeting held on Wednesday, 12th June, 2024. Stakeholders resolved during the meeting that students should hold off from paying the new regime of fees levied for the 2023/2024 academic session. Resolutions […]