The Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,University of Ilorin chapter, Dr. Abdulwahab Egbewole, can be clearly described as a warlord in union politics. He was a one-time chairman, Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Ilorin branch. Egbewole was later appointed Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, where he made his mark before his recent election. Egbewole, who runs a flourishing law chamber in Ilorin, granted this interview to select members of Kwara State Correspondents in Ilorin. DEMOLA AKINYEMI was there. Excerpts.

Life must have begun with the advent of information and communication technology. Surely people didn’t actually travel half way across the country to visit someone before calling to inform them! Could it be possible that there was a time when there were only about 7,000 phone lines in Nigeria? Was there really a time when university students did their assignments without access to the computer? How did anyone survive a university education without downloading information?

FOR many children whose desire for education would have been truncated due to financial challenges, Towergate Private Schools, Ipaja, Lagos has turned out to be their surest gate to the ivory tower through its scholarship programme for brilliant but indigent students.

No fewer than 500 students were trained at the just-concluded 2012 Nigeria Fellowship of Evangelical students (NIFES) four-day Leadership Training Conference (LTC).

TERTIARY Education Trust Fund, TETfund, has warned Committee on Needs Assessment of Nigerian Universities, CNANU, to firmly refuse to be coerced by any institution’s executive management to do their bidding.