Though he was known to many as a stand-up comedian, George Carlin (1937 -2008) was also a philosopher whose words, forget his lifestyle, aptly capture the reality of our today’s world. He might have had the American society primarily in ...

In his well-acclaimed novel, “Violence”, the late Festus Iyayi describes the condition of an average Nigerian symbolised by Idemudia, writing that the character’s “unfinished education, his joblessness, his hunger, his poverty, all these…were different forms of violence” being unleashed on ...

To set the records straight, the title of this piece is inspired by one of the plays of Olu Obafemi, our well-acclaimed Professor of English and celebrated former President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). The play, “Naira has ...

This year, the 29th convocation ceremonies of the University of Ilorin attracted a colossus in person of the former Ambassador of the United States to Nigeria, Mr. Walter C. Carrington, as convocation lecturer. Widely known and admired in Nigeria for ...

Book: Mystery in our Stream Author: Tubal Cain Publisher: Kraft Books Limited Reviewer: Mahfouz A. Adedimeji Date: 2007 Pages: 154. From the time immemorial, the subject of time has often constituted a core domain of philosophical postulates. This is mainly ...

The U.S has a fascinating history – of discovery, of hope, of repression, of slavery, of war, of freedom, of global ascent, of material progress and development as well as of hypocrisy and double standard. It all began with the ...

(This is the presentation I made as part of the Strategic Language Initiative Program organized by College of Arts and Sciences, Governors State University (GSU),Illinois in collaboration with U.S Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs on Wednesday, ...

One of the common myths about the University of Ilorin is that the staff and students are not “free”. Like all myths, including the myth of creation among the Yoruba which traced the beginning of the world to a long ...

There was a rumble in the Nigerian university system, the University of Calabar as a microcosm, two months ago when the eerie news concerning some senior academics of the University jolted the world. It was the first time that a ...

Though Prof. Wole Soyinka refers to his as “the wasted generation” based on his perception of the acute leadership failure in Nigeria in a 1984 article published in The Punch and just early this month, in an article published in ...

The news of the announcement of the Registrar, Mr. Emmanuel Dada Obafemi, as successor to the immediate past Registrar, Mrs. Olufolake O. Oyeyemi, on February 9, 2013 was greeted with approbation and acclaim among the staff of the University. This ...

This month, history will be made again as the University of Ilorin spotlights the historic city of Ilorin as a paradigm for what is urgently needed in Nigeria: peace. This spotlighting is coming through the first national conference of the ...