By Malcolm Little Black I sing for the Ocean, from whose rhythm I draw my inspiration, I sing for the Sun, her rays caresses my body and give vitality to my bone; I sing for the Stars, the gallant soldiers guarding the night sky, I’m a Pipit, and singing is my hobby. I sing for […]
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By Yinka Fabowale “Iwe yin yii…o po ju owo e lo” meaning”: “This your magazine is worth more than the price.” That is the confession by a friend after running through the contents of the latest edition of Newspeak Magazine. My friend, a former senior government official in Oyo State, who I have longed known […]
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At least, 1,000 pupils of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, have been taken home by their parents after the outbreak of what is suspected to be an infection. “It is over 1,000 (pupils) now as we speak. See, I cannot talk about what I don’t know. What you have in your palm, you don’t need a […]
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By Kolawole Adams The recent ranking of Adekunle Ajasin University as the best state university in webometrics attracted my attention to this subject. And I believe same news must have done the same for many elsewhere, causing people to wonder why a university in the obscure part of far Ondo State! But I believe excellence, […]
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By Williams Akolade Before the fifth Vice Chancellor of Ondo State owned Adekunle Ajasin University was announced in January 2015, not many had anticipated that the ball would be passed to Professor Igbekele Ajibefun, the former Rector of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, not even Ajibefun himself. At best, about the time, the professor had considered […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says over 100,000 candidates who met admission requirements have so far been offered placements into Nigerian universities for the 2019/2020 academic session. Dr Fabian Benjamin, Spokesman for JAMB, said on Sunday in Lagos that the board hoped to utilise 80 to 90 per cent of the available spaces for […]
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Vice Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun, has called on the administrative staff of the Institution to embrace electronic registry to ensure prompt service delivery and less of paperwork. Ajibefun, who gave the advice while declaring open a workshop organised by the University’s Chapter of the Association of Nigerian […]
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Representative of the Olusegun Agagu Foundation and Ondo State Commissioner for Education, Mr Femi Agagu (R), presenting the cheque for the Endowment to the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun. The Olusegun Agagu Foundation has presented a cheque of N2 million as Scholarship Endowment for outstanding students from the Department of Geology of Adekunle Ajasin University, […]
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It was shock and disbelief in Ondo State as news broke that the abducted lecturer of the State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, OSUSTECH, Prof. Gideon Okedayo, has been found dead. Okedayo, of the institution’s Department of Mathematical Science, and his driver were kidnapped by unknown gunmen along Auchi – Igara Road in neighbouring […]
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Palpable joy was felt at the University of Medical Sciences, UNIMED, Ondo as pioneer students of the University ended their academic programme barely four years since the establishment of the university. The 400 level students from Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology departments decked in white T-Shirts came out of the examination hall in a festive mood […]
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