Towards a remarkable celebration of the 70th anniversary of the University of Ibadan, the management has set up a planning committee with membership drawn from within and outside the university community. It has appointed two co-chairmen as leading planners for various activities…
A social media campaign tagged #FreeCampusPress has gathered momentum following the suspension of a campus journalist by the University of Ibadan (UI) management. Fisayo Adekunle Adebajo, a law finalist, got suspended for two semesters over a newspaper article he wrote in 2016….
A world universities ranking has once again put the University of Ibadan (UI) as the only Nigerian university to rank among the top 1,000 universities in the world. In the 2018/2019 edition of the global rankings released on Monday by the Center…
The Senate of the University of Ibadan (UI) has elected Kayode Adebowale of the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science as the new Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) of the institution. This election, which the UI Registrar, Olubunmi Faluyi described as “well-contested” was held…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Ibadan chapter (ASUU UI) has constituted a monitoring committee to ensure that contractors engaged by the institution follow the contract model for projects funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). According to the…
Tunji Olaopa writes about the University of Ibadan and its glories as it clocks 70 years of its establishment this year. I wrote this piece with a measure of immense pride. There is no one that will not feel this kind of…
The Senate of the University of Ibadan (UI) has advised 408 students at the institution to withdraw over their poor academic performances. It said that the students failed to meet the minimum academic requirements. The meeting of the Senate recently held also…
Parents of students in the University of Ibadan have rejected the proposed increment in the accommodation and tuition fees by the school management. The parents who spoke at the Stakeholders’ Forum organised by Nigeria’s premier university on Tuesday expressed their displeasure describing…
The University of Ibadan management has on Saturday ordered medical students in Alexander Brown Hall out of their residence indefinitely. This order which came through the Academic Board of College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, also included the immediate closure of the…
The University of Ibadan will on Monday, January 29 and Tuesday, January 30, 2018 host a conference to celebrate the 65th birthday anniversary of erudite history professor, Oloruntoyin Omoyeni Falola. With the theme, “African Knowledges and Alternative Futures”, the conference will be…
