UNILAG Hosts Nigeria’s First Kapuscinski Lecture, Champions Youth as Agents of Development
The centrality of young people to Africa’s development agenda took centre stage on Thursday, June 19, 2025, as the University of Lagos hosted the prestigious Kapuscinski Development Lecture Series at the Julius Berger Lecture Hall. It was the first time the global lecture series would be held in any Nigerian university, and it gathered an impressive array of accomplished professionals and social entrepreneurs eager to share insights with students. Among the thought leaders was investor […]
SPECIAL CALL-OUT TO EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS: APPLY FOR ARUA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME NOW!
The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from Mastercard Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York, is launching an Early-Career Research Fellowship programme that will fund up to forty-two (42) early-career researchers to conduct globally competitive research at the host and affiliated institutions of ARUA’s thirteen (13) Centres of Excellence (CoEs). Each fellowship will last six months, between July 2025 and June 2026. A maximum of four fellows will be assigned to each CoE, […]
Grand Finale of Innovation-in-Health Challenge Holds June 25
The Grand Finale for the AFRETEC-UNILAG Innovation-in-Health Challenge 2025 will hold on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at 10 am at the Old Great Hall, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, ldi-Araba Campus. The innovation challenge was launched in March 2025 to encourage multidisciplinary student teams from Nigerian universities to develop innovative and scalable solutions to critical healthcare challenges facing Africa. Fourteen (14) finalist teams from nine universities across Nigeria, selected after several months of mentorship […]
Inaugural Lecture: UNILAG Don Advocates Implementation of Nigeria’s Foreign Language Acquisition Policies
A Professor of French in the University of Lagos, Professor Akanbi Mudashir Ilupeju has charged the Federal Government to embark on a detailed implementation of all past and present policies relating to foreign language acquisition in Nigeria. The charge formed part of his recommendations while delivering the fifteenth (15th) Inaugural Lecture in the 2024/2025 Academic Session of the University, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. The lecture titled “JE N’EN AI PAS BESOIN: HELP ME WITH […]
UNILAG Homecoming For CJN, Justice Kekere-Ekun as She Delivers Public Lecture on Justice in Digital Era
It was a massive homecoming for the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Hon. Justice Kudirat O.M. Kekere-Ekun, GCON as she returned to her alma-mata: University of Lagos, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, to deliver a Public Lecture on Justice in the Digital Age: Leveraging Technology for an Efficient and Accessible Judiciary. Organised by the Faculty of Law, UNILAG at the Tayo Aderinokun Lecture Theatre of the University, the Public Lecture witnessed a distinguished gathering of leading figures […]
