The Alma Mater

In a 2010 article, “UNILORIN: A meteoric rise in 35 years”, published in Unilorin Star of the year, I attempted to periodise the development of the University of Ilorin in its various stages. The identified pha... Read More...

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... Read More...

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... Read More...

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 ar... Read More...

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 am... Read More...

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 fir... Read More...

Another milestone unfolds in the annals of the University of Ilorin today as a new Registrar, Mr. E. D. Obafemi, assumes office having received the hand-over note last Friday from Mrs. O. O. Oyeyemi. The former... Read More...

During an interactive session he had with the academic staff of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin, on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, Prof. Jacob Kehinde Oluponna of Harvard University, USA, struck a chord i... Read More...

One of the hallmarks of the academia is passion through which one’s calling is pursued with vigour and zeal.  Even outside the university system, without being passionate about whatever one does, one cannot aim... Read More...