The Alma Mater

One most important factor responsible for one’s success or failure in this life is attitude. As a matter of fact, attitude is everything and everything is about attitude, regardless of whoever we are. Nothing i... Read More...

Courtesy of a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project on Integrated Peacebuilding, I had a recent mind-blowing encounter with the Chairman of the Taraba State Traditional Council and Aka Uka of Wuka... Read More...

Saturday, 12th October 2019 is a day to remember for Alhaji Liad Tella as well as his family, friends, colleagues, associates and vast army of mentees. That was the day the don, who recently retired as a Senior... Read More...

One day I cannot forget in a hurry was Tuesday, September 3, 2019. That was the day a carefully-chosen team visited the TETFUND-funded research project that I lead at the University, after the unfortunate demis... Read More...

When the American astronaut, Neil Armstrong, first stepped on the Moon on July 20, 1969, he made a statement that was deep and profound: “That’s one small step by for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Forty y... Read More...

When the news of the unification of the divided Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ilorin Branch, filtered through the University community, many stakeholders took it with mixed feelings... Read More...

On Friday, June 28, 2019, news broke that an alumnus and former lecturer of the University of Ilorin, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU), Prof. AbdulRasheed Na’Allah, had emerged ... Read More...

The Faculty of Arts Students Association (FASA) of the University of Ilorin, under the exceptional leadership of Folorunsho Fatai Adisa, hosted the 2019 edition of its oratory contest on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 ... Read More...

Today, there is undoubtedly no major priority in Nigeria that is as serious as security. Though governments protect (citizens from one another and from foreign enemies), produce (products and resources to susta... Read More...

Like their 1.8 billion brethren  across the world, members of the University of Ilorin Muslim community started the Ramadhan fasting last Monday, May 6, 2019. By so doing, a pillar of Islam is observed and the ... Read More...

Discussing discourse: Of Omoluabi, Pulaaku and Ezigbo mmadu In continuation of its Distinguished Personality Lecture series, the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, under the able l... Read More...

Since his assumption of office as Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) on August 8, 2016, Prof. Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede has left no one in doubt, including the doubting Thomases, ... Read More...