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      Olusola Ifeoluwa  Obafemi Awolowo University has officially released its eagerly anticipated academic calendar for the 2024/25 session, following a senate meeting held earlier today Thursday, September 18, 2025.   Following its release, several students were pleasantly surprised, as they expected a later resumption date. However, according to the released calendar, freshers in the Faculties of Administration, Arts, EDM, Education, Law, and Social Sciences are to move into their halls of residence on Saturday, October 11, 2025.  Meanwhile, freshers in the Faculties of Agriculture, Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Computing Science and Engineering, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Science and Technology are to resume on Sunday, October 12, 2025. The released proposed academic calendar also revealed that the returning students will resume their studies on Sunday, October 26, 2025!           ...

    Eniola Adeyeye  The controversy surrounding the recently released Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Post-UTME results, has taken a deeper dimension as a number of aspirants alongside their parents, stormed the ICT center of the university, at the early hours of today, Wednesday, 10th September, 2025. Recall that the ICONS Organization, yesterday reported the aspirants' mixed feelings towards the released result. However, beyond ICONS’ report, the results had further sparked widespread disappointment and heartbreak among many aspirants, with social media flooded by reactions of confusion, anger, and despair. Read Also: http://theiconsorg.blogspot.com/2025/09/oau-has-disappointed-me-mixed-emotions.html  The latest development has intensified the emotional weight of the situation, raising serious concerns about the credibility of the result. During a subtle protest/confrontation of the aspirants at the ICT today, where they lamented poor results of which ...

     Sinmisola Ajibola and Olusola Ifeoluwa The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, today released the results of the just concluded 2024/2025 online Post-UTME screening, held between Monday 1st - Friday 5th September, 2025. Candidates who sat for the 2024/25 Post-UTME screening exercise, are hereby urged to proceed to check their aggregate scores via the university’s admissions portal.         a sample of the 2024/25 Post-UTME screening result Recall that the ICON Organization had earlier reported that the Post-UTME screening exercise officially commenced on Tuesday, 2nd September, where aspirants expressed their emotions, hoping for the best result. Read Also: http://theiconsorg.blogspot.com/2025/09/oau-commences-202425-post-utme.html  Meanwhile, as expected, the released results have again stirred a range of emotions amongst the aspirants, from relief and excitement to tension and uncertainty, as the com...

Adetunji Oluwafemi  The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has on Tuesday, 2nd September, 2025, commenced its 5th online Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME), for the 2024/25 aspirants. Recall that OAU started utilizing an online-based Post-UTME screening during the 2021/22 (Batch A) academic session, and has persisted thence. The screening exercise as scheduled, is to be held from Monday, 1st September, to Friday, 5th September, 2025, with the first day slated for an online optional mock examination, for the candidates. However, the actual online screening exercise, which affords the candidates the privilege to write the examination anywhere, in a stipulated time printed from their Post-UTME portal, commenced today.  Moreover, since the examination can be written anywhere, provided the candidate follow the guidelines provided by the institution, many of the aspirants were spotted in several UTME accredited CBT centers, Cyber ...

  Deborah Adeyemi The Obafemi Awolowo University Literary and Debating Society (OAULDS), has emerged as the Best Debate Club amongst other Nigeria universities, in the just concluded All-Nigerian University Debate Championship (ANUDC), held at the University of Ilorin. The 12th edition of this annual inter-varsity debate competition, which was held between Sunday 24th to Saturday, 30th August, 2025 has 25 universities including the host university Unilorin, OAU, FUTA, Veritas University, amongst others in attendance. These 25 universities were further divided into 70 Teams, with a total of over 140 participants in the competition.  Essentially, the championship itself was also divided into segments,  including the Debating, Public Speaking, and Quiz segment, of which OAU debating stream tagged "OAU Team A," represented by Israel Ajake and Grillo Adedolapo, won the open finals and became the national champions.   Meanwhile, the Public Speaking stream tagge...

        Adétúnjí Olúwafémi  When a university graduate, particularly the one who once walked in the same lecture halls, preys on the innocence of fellow students through deceit, the entire academic community is jolted, because it is usually tagged as "betrayal at its peaks." The recent trend on that an Obafemi Awolowo University graduate, Prince Momoh, orchestrated a catfishing scheme, under the guise of a female social media influencer named Priscilla (snapchat @girl_priscilla), is not only shameful, but deeply troubling and calls for caution, not just for OAU students but every social media users. The ''OAU Catfishing Scandal'' revealed how digital manipulation, materialism, and misplaced trust, coexist to victimize unsuspecting students. In its rawest form, catfishing is an act of betrayal, usually a calculated construction of false identit(ies) to exploit others, whether emotionally, psychologically, and financially. What many fail to realize i...