Tag: Crescent University Abeokuta

Film Review: House of Ga’a, By Mujeebat Idris

ADEOLA YUSUF

You’ve read reviews done by many on the epic movie, you probably have not read the one woven in flowery prose by a 2021 bronze winner of Commonwealth Essay Competition, and a first-class undergraduate of Law at Crescent University Abeokuta. The Movie As an Epic House of Ga’a is a captivating historical drama that delves into the life of Bashorun Ga’a, a powerful and notorious figure in the ancient city of Oyo. This film not only explores themes of power, betrayal and vengeance but also vividly brings to life the…

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73 Year-Old Retiree, NTA ex-GM Bag MSc Degrees at Crescent Varsity

Idris Katib

Ogun House of Assembly exSpeaker receives MBA, echoes from the 15th convocation of Crescent University Abeokuta, first to be conducted after founder, Bola Ajibola’s demise   A 73-year old retiree, Mrs Mabel Onike-Oke, and the former General Manager of the Nigerian Television Authority, Abeokuta, Mrs Funmi Wakama, have bagged their Master of Science (MSc) in Mass Communication at the just concluded 15th convocation of Crescent University Abeokuta. Platforms Africa reports that the 15th convocation was the first to be conducted by the University after the demise of its founder, Judge…

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How Am I Going to Cope? – Lai Oso’s Widow As Late Prof For Burial July 14

Damilola Olonade

“We’ll publish all,” Platforms Africa collates heart-rending  tributes written by acquaintances and ex-students of the late communication giant, including Olota of Ota, Prof. Yemi Obalanlege, and those from BBC, AriseTV, The Nation, Premium Times, IPC, IPI, WSCIJ, ACSPN,  Leicester University, De Montfort University, England, UNILAG, LASU, Covenant University, Crescent University, and other newsrooms and classrooms across the World       Abimbola, widow of the late renowned Professor of communication , Lai Oso, has declared that she did not know how she would cope with the “terrible loss” of her…

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World Court ex-Jurist, Prince Bola Ajibola, Is Dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

How the former Attorney-General of Nigeria breathed his last at a Lagos hospital + what his eldest son wrote on the topmost Owu Prince   A former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands, Prince Bola Ajibola, is dead. Ajibola, who was also a former Attorney-General of Nigeria, died in a Lagos hodpital aged 89. Ajibola, the founder of Crescent University, Abeokuta, died on Saturday midnight after a long-time illness as a result of old age. The eldest child of the late jurist, Segun Ajibola, SAN, disclosed this…

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UNILAG Prof. of Insurance, Tajudeen Yusuf, Unearths 17 SDGs From Qur’an

ADEOLA YUSUF

“Solution to Nigeria’s problem is not all about prayers non-stop. A little bit of prayer and more hard work. That is how nations grow and develop,” the Professor of Insurance and Risk Managment declares at Crescent Varsity’s 16th Founder’s Day   A Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Tajudeen Olalekan Yusuf, has dug up 17 provisions of the recently formulated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations (UN)  from the Qur’an, a book revealed over 1,400 years ago. Platforms Africa reports that Yusuf…

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