Happy Birthday To President Ibikunle Isaac Motunrayo

We felicitate with the President of Great Ife Students' Union, Comrade Ibikunle Isaac Motunrayo, GCAF(Grand Commander of all Aluta Forces) on his birthday. We wish him more fruitful years on earth coupled with sound health and fulfilment. You are celebrated this day IBK!

Pastor Tunde Bakare To Speak On "Nigeria Beyond 2015" In OAU

This is to inform all the students of Obafemi Awolowo University about a seminar that will be coming up on 28th January, 2015 at Oduduwa Hall by 12:00noon. The seminar is tagged - Nigeria Beyond 2015. 

According to the Chairman of Angola Hall, Ibiyemi Joseph, the seminar is non-political and not a religious based one as it is designed to properly sensitize Great Ife students on their various choices during the forth coming 2015 General Election as they relate to the future of this nation. The programme is organized by the Hall Executive Council of Angola Hall.
A seasoned speaker and politician, Pastor Tunde Bakare will be the Guest Speaker for the day as Yinka Odumakin, a leader of the Afenifere group and Paul Alaje, a former Students' Union President of OAU will be special Guests of Honour for the day.

Yay! Come one, come all.

11 OAU Students Escape Death After School Bus Caught Fire

The rate at which fire destroy things these days in Obafemi Awolowo University is increasingly alarming. Just yesterday evening, one of the commercial buses operating within the University campus caught fire along Road 1. The bus according to a report by Yemisi Tolulope on her Blog got burnt with 11 OAU students escaping unhurt. According to eye witnesses, it took the intervention of the fire fighters from the OAU Fire Department to arrest the situation as they successfully put out the fire.

Photo Credit: Yemisi's Blog

2015 Young Investigative Journalist Award Initiative

You’re invited to apply for the 2015 young investigative journalist award initiative.

Organizer

Oikomedia, SciFY, Cafebabel, and The National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”

Prizes

1. A cash prize of two thousand Euros (2.000 €) for the best journalistic research
2. A software tools prize for data journalism that will be announced with the hackathon

Deadline

20 March 2015

Guidelines

• Only natural persons from 18 to 30 years old (on the Opening date of the Contest) regardless of nationality and place of residence are eligible to take part in the Contest.
• Participants are not obliged to have a journalism degree from a public or private school, or to be journalism students. Natural persons meeting the age requirements are eligible to participate, even if they do not have professional experience in the field of journalism.
• Participants are required to undertake the following actions:

1. To fill out the application form available in the especially designed webpage of the Organizer www.ijp.gr and
2. To submit the research online. In case that the research is submitted in a language other than the Contest´s official language (Greek), it should be accompanied by an official translation.

• Research shall be submitted in accordance with the following criteria:

1. As 7z, ZIP, GZIP or TAR files with maximum size 50 MB or
2. Accompanied by links with relevant content. Links should be active during the whole Contest and 3 months after its Closing date.

• Participants are allowed to carry out journalistic research on any of the fields mentioned below, concerning citizens who live in Greece and events that have taken, take or will take place in Greek reality within its geographical territory. The central elements of the journalistic research shall be the active civic and political participation, the public interest, the supervision of the work and the decisions of Greek public authorities, the action of civil society, the action of private and public legal persons in Greece, as well as the impact all these activities have on society as a whole or on economy.
• Research can deal with any of the following fields, either alone or in combination:

1. Society
2. Politics
3. Economy
4. Environment

• Participants are allowed to submit digital, television, radio and multimedia (video and slideshow) journalistic research.

Inquiries

For any information concerning the Contest, participants and third parties can send an e-mail to:
e.makri@cafebabel.com or elina.makri@oikomedia.com

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Government College Katsina Releases Buhari’s Academic Credentials(Pictures)

For some time now, the secondary school certificate issue of the All Progressives Congress(APC) presidential flag bearer, General Muhammadu Buhari has been a major story everywhere. At last, the secondary school he attended has finally released his academic credentials detailing his results upon his request.

See the picture of the certificate below as obtained exclusively by Premium Times

You can download it here

Our Leaders -A Poem By Jodekss Gloatkenf

So goes the moon exchanging guard with the sun

The sun repeating the repeated roll firing down the moon with his giant gun

Life is full of changes; constant is changes

Which is why, why the sun shrieks, teeters about, finding his way to shine his sun on souls

So same remains the earth

So same remains this campus filled with big beards

Doing learners with their good gray hairs

To win wits in their ends

What do you expect?

As it happens above

It happens to this dirt's stove.

The campus is heated up
Hands that need votes are vying for fame now
Lobbying with pleases is what we hear now
You see them on their knees, drably dope
Pleading friends and fiends they the hope
Of cause both bad and good minds need to win the cup
Perhaps to fail us again
Or lift this varsity's face that is down up from this filthy water-rain.

Leaders should lie like a lizard limping up and down nodding
Aye just for just just
Against chameleon; the excrete it gives clings till life leaves.


-Jodekss Gloatkenf

2015 General Election: Buhari, Jonathan & Others To Begin Debates On January 28

The Nigeria Elections Debate Group on Monday in Abuja said the 2015 presidential debates would hold between January 28 and February 5.

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of NEDG, Mr Sola Omole, disclosed this to newsmen after a meeting of the board, hosted by the former Chairman of Daar Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi.

Omole said that the Directors-General of the Presidential Campaign Organisations of the 14 participating political parties would open the floor on January 28.

This, according to him, will be followed by the Vice-Presidential debates, billed for January 29.

He said the debates involving the presidential candidates would hold in two sessions and would climax on February 5.

Omole said the group had contacted all the parties involved, adding that they all support the idea.

“We believe that debates are very important components of the democratic process aimed at giving the candidates the opportunity to speak directly to Nigerians.
“We want the Nigerian community to get used to the business of debating issues and we feel that this is a very strong part of building that culture.

“We have met with all the political parties, those we couldn’t meet directly, we contacted their senior officials and they are very supportive of the initiative,” he said.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that NEDG is a coalition of broadcast, civil society and professional organisations, committed to deepening the country’s democracy.

It is also aimed at entrenching an enduring democratic culture through organised television debates since the return of democratic rule in 1999.

NEDG has put together the presidential debates to give the Nigerian electorate an opportunity to hear directly from all the presidential candidates.



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