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​By  Israel Bakare New things come with new challenges. That is the reality of campus transportation: we pay, and perhaps, with persistence and patience, all odds can be overcome. We thank you for the donation that renewed hope for students’ welfare. A donation like this is highly appreciated, but its real value should be measured by how much it reinforces student welfare. The old system had its challenges, which gave students and their union headaches. There were no queues and enough buses, but fares fluctuated alongside fuel prices, and the buses had no rare, distinctive qualities or standards for student transport. For safety, and to make campus more official and in keeping with its beauty; as people say, the most beautiful campus, we were told tricycles would be available for emergencies. Now, however, the renewed hope of getting a tricycle for emergencies and safety has become a scarce commodity. The old system had its flaws, but at least the transportation conversation was la...

        Ezekiel Ogunniyi If you walked into Awo Café for the second day of the GreatIFE Students’ Representative Council (SRC) business meeting expecting the usual fireworks that often accompany the constitution of the electoral committee and petition body, you would have left disappointed. Perhaps that disappointment says more about us than it does about the House. On that day, the GreatIFE SRC sat, debated, voted, and swore in a new Electoral Commission and Petition Committee without a single disagreement, without a President storming out, and without security personnel stepping in to separate warring factions. Depending on who you ask, that is either proof that GreatIFE politics has finally matured or proof that its fire has simply burned out. Barely a year ago, the same chamber descended into what could only be described as pandemonium when the Speaker announced a thirteen-member electoral committee instead of the expected fifteen. The Union Presiden...