Tag: Ile Ife

How UNILAG Law Teacher, Akiyode-Afolabi, Won Soyinka Journalism Centre Award

Abibat Babalola

There has been excitement in the academic community and civic space in Nigeria as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and human rights lawyer, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, bags the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) award. Akiyode-Afolabi, founder of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) and former Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife Students Union Government (SUG) would be conferred with the ‘2022 Human Rights Defender Award’ at the 17th edition of the Wole Soyinka Award…

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Nigeria’s Foremost Geographer, Prof Akin Mabogunje, Is Dead

Gbenga Adeoti

How I knew the foremost scholar will die since two months ago, Ms Funke Aboyade SAN   Nigeria’s foremost geographer, Prof Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje is dead. Prof Mabogunje reportedly died on Thursday August 4, 2022. He was 90 years old. His death was confirmed by Ms Funke Aboyade SAN, daughter of Mabogunje’s bossom friend, the late Prof Ojetunji Aboyade, a former Vice Chancellor, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife. READ ALSO: Nigeria Confirms 157 Cases Of Monkeypox No BSc, No MSc, Nigerian HND Holder Gets 7 US Varsities’…

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We Wore Same Clothes, Studied Same Course, Became Professors – 80-Year-Old Twins

ADEOLA YUSUF

Eighty-year-old twin brothers from Edo State, David and Joshua Ukponmwan, who studied the same course and both became professors, speak to GODFREY GEORGE about their growing up, career and families When were you born? My name is Prof. David Ukponmwan. I was born on August 10, 1942. I am a twin. I have a twin brother, Joshua. He is professor just like me. I was born in Benin City, Edo State. I am from Oredo Local Government Area of the state. Did you grow up in the village? I grew…

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Agric Economics Prof, Simeon Bamire, Resumes As 12th VC In OAU History

Abibat Babalola

A Professor of Agricultural Economics, Simeon Bamire, was on Tuesday inaugurated as the 12th substantive Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Bamire took over from Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, who had completed a five-year tenure. In his acceptance speech, the new VC promised to build on the achievements of his predecessor. READ ALSO: Nigerian Comedienne, Helen Paul, Becomes Professor, HoD At US Varsity BREAKING: UNILAG Lecturer, Ismail Ibraheem, Now Professor of Communication Meet Ifeoma Uddoh, SelectUSA Tech Pitch Contest Winner Appealing to unions in the university to…

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Why Police Must Declare Hilton Hotel Owner’s Son Wanted – Deceased Family

Gbenga Adeoti

Hoteliers broke into the late Timothy Adegoke’s room on the first night when he actually paid for two nights at the hotel – Lawyer   Dr. Kayode Ajulo, lawyer to the father of late Timothy Oludare Adegoke, who died at Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on behalf of the family has urged the Nigerian Police to declare Dr. Rahman Adedoyin’s son, Raheem Adedoyin, wanted over the murder. He was until his death a Masters of Business Administration student of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Ajulo in a statement…

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Oduduwa Varsity Founder Arrested Over Postgraduate Student’s Murder

Gbenga Adeoti

Founder of Oduduwa University and Ile-Ife Polytechnic, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, has been arrested by the Osun State Police Command in connection with the death of a Master’s degree student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, Timothy Adegoke. The institutions’ proprietor is also the Chairman of Hilton Hotel and Resort, Ile-Ife. The state Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, who disclosed this through the command’s spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola, disclosed that Adedoyin was arrested on November 15. READ ALSO: Embattled A.B.C Orjiako Resigns As Seplat Energy Chairman Don’t Ask Me What…

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