THE University of Ilorin (Unilorin) has now occupied the top position among Nigerian universities, according to the latest ranking of the world universities in webometric ranking.
The Vice-Chancellor of Unilorin, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed the position of the institution while being commended by the new Commander of the 227 Wing of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Peter Gbujie.
According to the 2010 webometric ranking result, which was released on February 10, the University of Ilorin, which ranked 77 in Africa last year and second to the University of Benin in Nigeria, now ranked 55 in Africa and first in Nigeria.
The 2010 results revealed the same pattern of the 2009, with only five Nigerian universities among the best 100 in Africa.
However, only the University of Ilorin was found among the best 6,000 world universities in the world as presented in the ranking.
The current ranking was considered a welcome development by stakeholders of the institution, though the university said it was set to be among the best 10 in Africa and one of the leading institutions in the world.
The president has broken his contract with the Nigerian people who voted him into office. Even if he now appears to have resurrected and able to give a barely-over-one-minute-interview on BBC, there are just too many controversies surrounding his medical stay in Saudi Arabia to warrant forgiveness from the Nigerian people.
Dead or alive, Alhaji Umaru YarAdua is no longer fit to govern Federal Republic of Nigeria.
People rally to protest over a power vacuum created by the absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua, Abuja, 12 Jan 2009. Source: VOA/AFP
The Nigerian president may be brain-dead, or severely physically and mentally incapacitated to ever function in the executive capacity he was elected some three years ago. There are some damning reports from NEXT and Punch dailies.
The story in Next is particularly jaw-dropping! Several spasms of shiver ran down my spine reading how a handful of people have been able to mount the greatest charade in the nation’s history.
Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua. President Federal Republic of Nigeria
I don’t know if Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua still consider himself the president of Nigeria or not. Certainly he does, I think, considering his refusal to hand over — even if temporally to his deputy, while on sick leave in Saudi Arabia, or wherever he’s holed up at the moment.
If Mr. President is still in control of his mental faculty, and his sights have not failed him as some of his other body parts and organs have, he needs to read Princeton Lyman’s piece on Nigeria: “If Nigeria fails?”, published in BusinessDay on Jan. 7. (In fact, all federal ministers, legislators and state governors should read the article.) Mr. Lyman was a former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, so his analysis can not be discounted. Continue reading…
