The second Distinguished Governance Lecture of the Oba Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair will hold tomorrow July 8, at the OGD Hall, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State. The lecture will be delivered by Professor Toyin Falola, the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, United States. Falola, a…

What has age got to do with a university education? The answers from education experts, parents and the government provide an interesting moment for Nigeria to reflect and perhaps review the country’s university’s admission policy in view of its bulging youth population, writes Head, Education Desk, Iyabo Lawal. Almost every year, Nigeria’s universities are a…

A 28-year-old graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Bakare Abiodun, who is a sickle cell anemia patient is seeking help from well-meaning Nigerians for surgeries that would cost N12 million. According to him, he has been bedridden immediately after writing his final examinations four years ago and had already spent so much to manage…

Olayiwola Awakan is a dancer, dramatist, author and motivational speaker, who believes in using dance and the stage to address social ills. The thespian cum broadcaster added another feather to his cap at the just concluded World Dance Day celebration held at Ajegunle, Lagos. He tells OMIKO AWA what dance is to him among other…

Prof Olusoga Sofola, a former Acting Vice Chancellor, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye is an eminent scholar with several years of teaching experience in foreign institutions. In this interview with IYABO LAWAL, the emeritus professor of Physiology spoke on the lingering strike, by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), payment of tuition in public…

From imitating actors he used to watch on TV in his teen years, Oreofe Oludare Adeyemi Williams developed passion for acting. And to live this passion to its fullest, he gained admission into Olabisi Onabanjo University to study dramatic literature. When he left school, he lectured for some time before launching out into the big…

Prof Olatunde who spoke at the institution’s 27th convocation ceremony for the award of post graduates degrees and diplomas said the aim of the ODL programme was to increase access for applicants seeking admission into the university.

In fulfillment of one of his campaign promises, the chairman of Isolo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Shamsudeen Abiodun Olaleye, has given out bursary award to 100 students of higher institutions across the country.

A socio-cultural organisation, Ikenne Peoples Forum (IPF) has faulted the relocation of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) College of Health Sciences from the community and appealed to governor Ibikunle Amosun

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has urged the Federal Government to inject funds recovered from the anti-corruption fight into the economy to create jobs in the country.

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of three unions in Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, yesterday advised a section of the institution’s alumni association to leave the Vice Chancellor...

I was diagnosed of chronic asthma before I turned five; hence I had a relatively tough childhood. I practically lived most of my life being admitted in hospitals. Sometimes, I did my exams in the confines of my hospital bed.