The Alma Mater

The word of the year                                                                                   The editors of Oxford Dictionaries at the middle of this month (November, 2016) declared “post-truth” a... Read More...

In preparing a booklet I called Let’s Talk about Death published in 2003, one source I found useful is Khawalaja Muhammad Islam’s The Spectacle of Death, the adopted title of this column. A first reading of the... Read More...

Though the month of August 2016 will be remembered by millions of people as the month of the Rio Olympics, where the Nigerian athletes ran well like pregnant women and our poorly motivated football team managed... Read More...

On Friday June 10, 2016, I was aboard an Emirates flight to Chicago enroute to the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where it emerged that the University of Ilorin, based on its commitment to peace, is the onl... Read More...

The alumni of the US exchange programmes had a meeting with the visiting US Embassy cultural attaché, Mr Bob Kerr, and his team at a beautiful location in Ilorin last Wednesday (June 1, 2016). For Fulbright sch... Read More...

When the University of Ilorin was to organise its epoch-making 40th anniversary last October, it chose the right man to lead the organising team, in person of that doyen of intellectualism, Prof. Yasir Anjola Q... Read More...

The month of January 2016 has come and gone but its memory will continue to linger because of the sour taste it left in our throats. At least, two tragedies befell us as a community. These were two obituaries w... Read More...

When the University of Ilorin was established in August 1975, one of the pioneer three Faculties of the new University was the Faculty of Arts. Forty years after, the University would become the flagship of the... Read More...