Court accepts expelled student’s audio evidence against UI
A Federal High Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, has accepted audio evidence tendered by a student, Philip Olatinwo, who was expelled by the Senate of the University of Ibadan. The Counsel to the university, Sunday Ajayi, had wanted the court to adjourn the case to enable him to call the university’s security guard, who searched […]
APC wins Lagos council by-election
The Candidate of All Progressives Congress Olufemi Sowande has been declared the winner of the Ward C Bariga LCDA, Lagos State by-election held on Tuesday, December 18th. The INEC Returning Officer, who made the declaration of results at CMS primary school collation centre at Bariga, Lagos, said Mr Sowande polled 1,442 votes to emerge the winner and […]
UI to collaborate with NAF in aircraft engineering, weapons production
The University of Ibadan has indicated its willingness to partner with the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in achieving homegrown solutions to some of its Research and Development (R & D) issues. According to a statement on Monday, the deputy vice-chancellor, Research Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Olanike Adeyemo, disclosed this while receiving a team of researchers […]
#EndASUUstrike Trends on Twitter
38 days after Nigerian public universities were shut down due to lecturers’ industrial action, Nigerians on Twitter have launched a social media campaign – #EndASUUstrike – asking the Federal Government to end the ongoing ASUU strike. It should be recalled that On Sunday, November 4, 2018, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) declared an […]
Team VINSIGHTE Wins the ONCampus Hult Prize Challenge
Team Vinsighte has emerged as the winner of the ONCampus Hult Prize Challenge, hosted at the University of Ibadan. The team which has also won the Union Bank Campus Innovation challenge, listed among the top 10 innovators at the Merck accelerator program 2018, top 35 at the Google impact challenge, pitched the idea of giving […]
Story of Edo community school in poor state
“I’m not happy, they’ve neglected us in our community, if they can help us, please let them come — there’s no borehole, we usually go to the stream. There are just cables, no light at all in this community for more than 5 years. This is the only primary school in Uroh-Uzea with no private […]
OAU wins First Bank ethics challenge
The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has emerged as the winner of the 2018 Ethics Challenge of the CFA Society Nigeria sponsored by FirstBank of Nigeria Limited. OAU emerged winner ahead of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and University of Nigeria (UNN), who came second and third respectively. Speaking at the Gala Night and 2018 […]
Why NECO postpones Nov/Dec exams start – Official
The National Examination Council (NECO) has explained the reason it postponed its November/December 2018 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) to Monday, November 19 from November 15. The Council said the exam the start date of the exams was shifted because of the Federal Government’s decision to declare a public holiday. The exam body also dismissed […]
201 bag first class honours at UI
A total of 7,577 students have graduated with first degrees from the University of Ibadan during the school’s 2016/2017 a week-long Convocation and 70th Foundation Day anniversary ceremonies. A breakdown of the figure indicates that 201 finished with First Class; 1,735 made Second Class (Upper Division); 4,363, Second Class (Lower Division); 834, Third Class; 69, […]
UNIPORT win WAUG again
The defending champions, University of Port Harcourt topped the medal chart in the just concluded West African Universities Games which had more than 60 universities in attendance. Uniport had a total of 67 gold, 31 silver and 23 bronze medals. University of Lagos (UNILAG) followed closely as second after a total of 16 gold, 24 […]
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