JUNGLE JUSTICE

Let’s go back in time Tick Tock Tick Tock. Recently, MR. X with an unfamiliar face, was said to have been caught in the hall and he was challenged about his presence at the time. He was said to have given incoherent answers to questions asked by the defence team, like 2KA, and having a 200level student contact in the hall. He could also not give credible reasons for his presence in the hall at that time and was recognized…

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THE DARK MAFIA OF THE AVIAN WORLD

Throughout the years, crows and vultures have gotten a bad reputation as the villains of the bird kingdom for their dietary practices and omens of doom, yet an even scarier evil exists and has somehow hidden under the radar from most people including myself –until now. By sheer serendipity, I have recently discovered the tyranny of the seemingly innocent cuckoo bird after whom the famous cuckoo clock of our childhood cartoons is named. And trust me, there is nothing cute…

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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

The concept of the multiverse is no strange concept to anyone in the Science Fiction space. With numerous directors and companies giving their take on this concept, this one movie absolutely gets it right. The title of this movie strangely gives a lot of the plot away, giving us a rather simple story spanning multiple universes. The movie aims to tackle one of the overwhelming questions thrown to us by life; what is the use of anything if nothing matters?…

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Jungle justice: A well-deserved punishment?

A couple of weeks ago, a thief was sighted at D block in ABH. He was caught and interrogated, but not without some beating and thumping. The Preclinical Press decided to ask some preclinical students what they feel about the situation and their thoughts on mob action. “I don’t know the specifics; I only saw the headline and considering the latest developments with jungle justice in the country, I surmised it’s one of those cases. I understand the outrage of…

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UIMSA Issues Payment Deadline for 2021/22 Membership Dues

The University of Ibadan Medical Students’ Association, today 8th of June, 2022, issued a directive on payment of dues, directing all its members to pay the UIMSA dues on or before Saturday, July 30, 2022.The directive was contained in a release signed by the Congress Chancellor, Hon. Chiamaka B. Offorbuike and the Congress Scribe, Hon. Rebecca O. Ogunnaike. The decision was made by the Congress at her First Ordinary Meeting and it read thus “Following the resolution of the Congress…

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MADUKA MILLICENT INTERVIEW: FROM LATE BLOOMER TO ONLY CHESS GOLD MEDALIST AT NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY GAMES ASSOCIATION (NUGA) GAMES 2022

Maduka Millicent, a 600 level medical student and not-your-usual chess prodigy in Alexander Brown Hall (ABH), University College Hospital (UCH) tells the University of Ibadan Medical Student’s Association (UIMSA) Sports Publication team about her journey as a medical student, head of DOKITA board and chess player amongst others.  Whilst giving no obvious gender advantages but still dominated by male players, chess has met its contender with a ‘decent’ talent in Millicent. Find out her struggles, accomplishments, dreams and goals. Interviewer:…

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ANOREXIA NERVOSA

Anorexia Nervosa is a psychological and eating disorder characterized by dangerously low weight, self-starvation, a serious fear of gaining weight, and severe weight loss. Individuals living with anorexia nervosa have a distorted perception of their body image which comes from a place of body dysmorphia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder, anxiety and depression which leads to using extreme measures which are detrimental to their health in order to keep losing weight and prevent weight gain. Such measures include: Obsessively monitoring…

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ASUU STRIKE: GLIMMER OF HOPE AS 3-MONTH RENEGOTIATION PERIOD ENDS TODAY

On Monday 7th March 2022, the Federal Government inaugurated a seven-member panel that was saddled with the task of renegotiating the 2009 Agreement it had reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other university-based unions as a way of resolving the strike action which the unions embarked on. The Vanguard reported that the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who inaugurated the committee in Abuja, tasked the committee to submit proposed agreements within three months from the…

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Pause. Will you even graduate with this degree?

This ASUU strike did not come as much of a surprise to many students. It’s one of the realities of the Nigerian student life that we’ve all accepted. This reality also comes with a blame game from students – either on ASUU, the government or their fate for being born in this Armageddon of a country – depending on the time frame of the strike. However, there’s a slightly different, yet legit, timeline not being considered; that the system crumbles…

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