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. These feelings, which lingered even after the historic five-point ...

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 the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of ...

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 at the Faculty of Arts Lecture Hall. ...

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 sustain life) and provide (education, infrastructure and welfare to ...

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 divine rewards of fasting ...

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 leadership of Prof. Noah Yusuf, hosted the Secretary-General of the International ...

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, about his prodigious administrative acumen, robust intellect, ...

Adesanmi: The final flight home Like millions of his friends and fans across the world, the tragic news of the death of Prof. Pius Adesanmi, undoubtedly one of the most talented writers and satirists Africa has ever produced, in the ...

As a bibliophile, like many other people, one of the gains of attending academic and professional gatherings, for me, is the opportunity of finding old and new books on display and acquiring those that can be afforded. Thus, part of ...

Just vote, don’t fight Two contenders, many pretenders This month, Nigerians will go to the polls to decide who their president will be for the next four years. Though there are many pretenders who are purportedly in the race, it ...

Character for starters (Dedicated to fresh students) To some of us, the University of Ilorin often appears like a pearl with thousands of glittering diamonds or like the galaxy with its millions of twinkling stars. Each of the components of ...

On Thursday, October 18, 2018, the Department of Arabic, University of Ilorin, under the headship of Dr Lateef Onireti Ibrahim, in conjunction with the Arabic Alumni Association of the University, led by Dr Adam Sirajudeen, organised a three-in-one programme at ...