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 University of Ibadan has said that school will be expelling about 328 students for what it called ‘shameful academic results’ in the recently concluded 2016/2017 academic session.

Nigeria's first professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Ibadan, Abimbola Osoba, is dead. A statement by the family described Osoba as brilliant, intelligent, humble, gentle, kind, generous and hard-working. The deceased is survived by his wife, Prof. Nike Osoba, nee Ashiru, children and extended family members. Osoba, 83, attended CMS Grammar School, obtained his B.A. (1958) and M.A. in Microbiology from the Trinity College, Dublin and then proceeded to the Queen’s University, Belfast to read medicine and graduated in 1964. He returned to Nigeria in 1965 and took up appointment as a Senior Registrar in the Department of Medical Microbiology, UCH Ibadan and went back to the UK in 1975 for his MD with honours at the Queens University, Belfast. The statement added: “In 1978, he was appointed Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Ibadan (first to be so appointed) and Consultant Microbiologist to UCH. He also became the first Director of the Spe...

It was an event of a political gathering at the star studded wedding of Kano state Governor's daughter, Fatima and Oyo state governor's son,Idris. At the occasion was Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his wife Dolapo, Mrs Aisha Buhari, Toyin Saraki, Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun, Bola Tinubu,  Aregbesola, Rotimi Akeredolu ,former Senate president Ken Nnamani and others in Ibadan, Oyo state yesterday March 10th for the second leg wedding.  See more photos below...

The academic staff, students and visitors to the University of Ibadan met the gates to the entrances of the university locked without prior warning LIB reports. According to sources, the non-academic staff of the university, comprising of Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Technicians, NAT, decided to lock the institution’s gate to press home their demands. The institution’s spokesperson, Tunji Oladejo said that the current issue was not a local one but as a result of a directive from the national bodies of the non-academic staff.  According to him, the government recently allocated about N25 billion for payment of earned allowances of staff. However, a large chunk of the money which is about N18 billion was allocated to the academic staff of universities while the other unions were to share the remaining. “It is true that there is an on-going strike action by the non academ...