The Silent Storm: Prof. Amira Calls For A Prevention-First Revolution In Kidney Care
Kidney disease often gives little warning. It can progress quietly, with few noticeable symptoms, until significant damage has occurred and treatment becomes more difficult, costly, and in some cases, life-threatening. It was this often-unseen progression, and the urgent need to change how kidney disease is detected and managed, that Professor Christiana Oluwatoyin Amira placed at the centre of the 21st Inaugural Lecture of the 2025/2026 Academic Session, delivered on Wednesday, September 9, 2026. Titled “The […]
UNILAG-AFRETEC Network Inspires Girls To Turn Green Ideas Into AI-Power Solutions
For a group of female senior secondary school students gathered at the University of Lagos on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, the classroom looked a little different. Instead of listening to lectures, the students were introduced to renewable energy, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and innovation. They were also encouraged to imagine themselves as the women who could one day develop solutions to some of society’s most pressing challenges. This was the idea behind ECO-STEM Trailblazers 3.0 Summer […]
Call For Applications For The Senator Douye Diri Professorial Chair in Leadership and Good Governance Department of Political Science
The University of Lagos invites applications from suitably qualified and distinguished candidates for appointment to the Senator Douye Diri Professorial Chair in Leadership and Good Governance in the Department of Political Science. The Chair is established to provide intellectual leadership and promote cutting-edge scholarship, research, policy engagement and public discourse on leadership and good governance in Nigeria and Africa. A. OBJECTIVES OF THE CHAIR The Professor appointed to the SENATOR DOUYE DIRI PROFESSORIAL CHAIR IN […]
UNILAG Celebrates Prof. Soyombo at 70 With Exaugural Lectute on Nigeria’s Security Challenges
Professor Theophilus Omololu Soyombo, a Professor of Sociology, has called for a broader, society-wide response to Nigeria’s worsening security challenges, stressing that the country cannot overcome insecurity through the efforts of security agencies alone. He made the call on Friday, September 4, 2026, while delivering his exaugural lecture titled “ Why We Are Where We Are: A Sociological Analysis of the Trials and Travails of Security Control in Nigeria ” at the Faculty of Social […]
UNILAG, First Bank Reactivate Samuel Asabia Chair After 30 Years With Inaugural Lecture on Business Ethics
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) and First Bank of Nigeria Limited on Thursday, September 3, 2026, hosted the Inaugural Public Lecture of the First Bank Samuel Asabia Professorial Chair in Business Ethics at the J.F. Ade Ajayi (Main) Auditorium, UNILAG. The event marked the formal reactivation of the Chair after more than three decades of dormancy. The lecture, themed “ Ethical Paradoxes, Small Businesses, and the Informal Economy: Lessons for Tax Compliance and Accountability ,” […]
