The Alma Mater

Fresh students’ bumper harvest If anything untoward happens to the admission of any of the 10,886 students matriculated by the University of Ilorin on March 1, 2017, it will not be because of lacking good ad... Read More...

Former President Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, like all great men, means many things to many people and institutions. To the University of Ilorin, his personality is etched in gold for many reasons out which space w... Read More...

Mansur Ismail: From zero to hero On January 24, 2017, the University of Lagos held its 49th convocation ceremony in which a total of 231 graduands bagged a First Class degree in various disciplines. This spe... Read More...

Thoughtful tips for this time In his book, The Spirituality of Being, David Hurr said something canonical: “All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidity is original”. This is what the Yoruba meant when they said... Read More...

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...