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Contact Details of Unilorin Phone No and Email

Good day friend, are you in search how you can contact the unilorin University? To make the post briefly and straight to point we will be giving you direct contact to the school below.

Unilorin

Today, the university of illorin is now one of the best academically higher institute in Nigeria. For so many reasons wants to make someone contact the school direct and one of the important one is inquiries regarding anything in the school. Another good reason is complaint and important discussion that will be of good interest to you or the school.

What ever your reason is for wanting to contact the University of Illorin then use the contact details below.

Unilorin Contact Details

Officer	E – Mail Address
The Registrar University of Ilorin P.M.B 1515Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, Tel: 031-821304, 07098208901FAX: 031-221937	[email protected]
Dean, Faculty of Agriculture	[email protected]
Dean, Faculty of Arts	[email protected]

My first experience in University of Benin

By Oluoma Unique Leave a Comment

It started in the year 2015, when I was admitted as one of the students of University of Benin, I was so happy. Prior before I gained admission, I’ve heard so many horrible stories about Benin ranging from cultism, witchcraft and promiscuity but none of this deterred, my mind was already made up. And before I applied the school, I made thorough investigation about the school and my area of discipline so I was convinced that the school is good at Arts.

My first experience in University of Benin

The first thing that tickled my fancy the first time that I visited the school was when I boarded a vehicle at “Main gate” going to “Faculty ” and when I asked the driver the fare price, he told me #20, I was amazed, #20?Lol…!. When we alighted at Faculty, I called my friend that she should come pick me up, after some minutes, she came and we headed to her hostel. She actually lived at “Ekosodin”, from back gate, we boarded a tricycle popularly known as “keke” down to her lodge. When we got to the junction that led to her lodge, I felt some sensations in me, she lived in the area called “Market”. The reason why I felt like that was because, everywhere looked bushy and when I tried to make call, I noticed that there was no network in my phone, that grew my fear.

The distance from the junction to her house wasn’t far, as we were going, I noticed that anyone she greeted, she would say “doo” and they would replied same. As an inquisitive lady, I asked her what she meant by that word, she told me that it is Benin’s way of greeting. I shrugged. During my stay with her, I noticed that most of the students in the lodge were always calling each other “scholar”, as time goes on, I got to know that what they meant by scholar is a student that reads much and one who is intelligent. As time went on, I heard so many horrible stories about Ekosodin, it is seen as a dreadful area and a land of cultists. Some students tag it as a cursed community because of how undeveloped the community looks despite that a great and prestigious University of Benin is closer to them. The roads are in deplorable state, in fact, during rainy season, the roads seem to be blocked. But despite all these, the community seems to have greater number of students compared to any other place that students live.

When I did my clearance as a newbie, I didn’t find it much difficult because I had great and caring friends that made things easier for me. The only thing I suffered was trekking in the scorching sun, though, I rounded off my clearance in second semester and it was then that I got my matriculation number. The matriculation ceremony for new intakes, I couldn’t attend because we had Phonetics lecture on the said day, been that I was admitted as a direct entry student, I wasn’t so much moved by it. It was after the lecture that I and few friends went to celebrate with one of my direct entry colleagues and we had fun. Also, I had a female friend whose one of her wooers came and took us out to one popular fastfoods at University of Benin, it’s called “Mattice”.

As a student who has passion for God, I found a fellowship for myself, I joined “RCF” family, I joined the family because I was a leader at RCF in my former school. Locating RCF wasn’t much ado for me because I met a guy who’s also a member on my way to fellowship. Prior before that, I’ve always known the days of worship and thanks to the posters I saw around. It was on a Tuesday, and I enjoyed every bit of the fellowship and the way we were welcomed as “new comers”.

Also, locating my course mates wasn’t much difficult too, I asked where English and Literature students and I was directed, I followed the directions and that day, I met a girl coming out from “A4. I told her that I’m looking for English and Liteture students, she told me that she’s one of the students and right and there in, she introduced me to other course mates and even the class reps. I was so happy that I’ve found my class mates, I exchanged numbers with few persons that helped me with notes.

My first semester exams was around the corner, I did my best, read the way I could but when the results came, I wasn’t so much impressed by my performance. I spent most of the nights at night class. I was expecting A’s and being that I know my ability well, it came like a blow to me but that didn’t deter me because I believe that “once there’s life, there’s hope”. I dusted my self and braced myself up for a better tomorrow. It was as time went on that I got to know that my course is seen as one of the most difficult and dreaded courses in the Faculty of Arts, University of Benin. It’s said that it’s hard to produce “First class” and that the person that had it, was in the year “1987” and after some years, he kicked the bucket. His picture portriat is hung at the English and Literaure department.

Finally, to be honest, I must say that University of Benin is a great school, the school’s academic structure I must confess is triangular in shape, as you’re moving, you’ll get to see how difficult, tighter and competitive the school is. Everyone is determined to make it, imagine after a week’s resumption, you’ll see students going for night class, you’ll be amazed. Less, I forgot, there was even a time that I forgot my ATM card in the ATM slot machine and this was because I was reading a voluminious novel, thanks to the good students around that called me back, it wasn’t funny but what will one do, the struggle is real and the dreams must be achieved.

Written by: Unique Praise.

THE MYSTERY BEHIND DEVELOPMENT AND DESTRUCTION

By David Ayo Olowoeyo Leave a Comment

THE MYSTERY BEHIND DESTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

30 days are too few to develop a county, but too much to destroy a country.

SIMILARITY OF DESTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Destroy and Develop both starts with the letter “D”. They aren’t too different at all.

But it is left for you, to choose, the word that comes after your own “D”.

Should it be “estroy” or “evelop” ?

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO

Choose wisely.

The Birth Of Modern Science

By Olusola Bodunrin Leave a Comment

When you take time to read history, you’ll be fascinated. This morning I found something very intriguing, what we call science had been here many centuries ago, they just didn’t know it was the future. No science leapt, fully formed, from a particular worldview, culture, religion or philosophy.

Modern science isn’t so modern: the ancient Ionians got there first, but their work was suppressed for centuries.

For most people, modern science has some sort of association with the Enlightenment or with the likes of Copernicus and da Vinci, who were themselves products of the sixteenth-century Renaissance.

But in fact, modern science has much deeper roots. The Ionians of Greece were its forefathers.

Ionia was a region in the eastern Mediterranean: what we might think of now as the eastern Greek islands and the western coast of Turkey. In ancient times, it stood at the crossroads of civilization. Not only was Ionia a center of trade, but the region was also influenced by Egyptians, Babylonians and other mighty civilizations.

Each of these civilizations had its gods, who were thought to reign over the territory.

This left the Ionians a little confused. Who were they to worship, the Greek god Zeus or the Babylonian Marduk? The conclusion they came to was startling. They determined that principles of physics and laws of nature governed the world instead. They saw the world as something ordered and intelligible, its history following an explicable course and its different parts arranged in a comprehensible system. Most historians agree that Thales, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, started this movement by predicting a solar eclipse that actually occurred, though some believe this feat to be false.

The Ionians started experimenting and so ushered in a scientific revolution. Perhaps most famously, Democritus invented the concept of the atom in around 430 BCE. It’s a Greek word that means “uncuttable.” He argued that when you cut an apple, your knife is actually passing through the empty spaces between atoms. Consequently, he determined that every object could be thought of as comprising atoms and empty spaces.

Sadly, however, experimental Ionian approaches and learning were suppressed for centuries. We can blame the Greek Pythagoras for this.

Pythagoras and his disciples believed that the world, being perfect and divine, obeyed set geometrical laws. All they needed was pure thought and nothing else. Experimentation had no place in this academic mind-set.

Critically, the greatest philosophers of the classical world, Plato and Aristotle among them, were profoundly influenced by Pythagoras’ ideas.

In the fifth to fourth centuries BCE, they started to make the argument that experimenting was no different from manual work in the fields. It was, therefore, work only suitable for slaves. Pure intellectual work should, conversely, be theoretical.

When Christianity grew dominant, it also took the Pythagorean notion of a perfect divine world. Consequently, scientific endeavors that might have led to new doctrine-threatening discoveries were suppressed.

This censorship cast a long shadow. It took until the sixteenth century before the scientific method of observation and experimentation was revived.

Errors we were taught in primary and secondary schools

By Olusola Bodunrin 1 Comment

Teachers are the real shapers of the society. These are people who are responsible for producing doctors, lawyers, engineers, presidents, etc. They mould every other aspect of our daily endeavours. This means that these people cannot afford to be lax about their job. They are expected to always keep abreast of facts and knowledge through constant reading, studying and research. However it seems like most of us that schooled in Nigeria have been taught wrong as most of our teachers gave us wrong information on some topic. These
errors – though some of them were facts at some point in time, but things have since moved on but new discoveries are being made.

Here are some of them:

There are nine planets in the solar system: Astronomers are regularly discovering new planets all over the universe. However, the number of planets in our own solar system has been reduced from nine to eight. This is due to the declassification of Pluto as a planet. Pluto was officially downgraded by astronomers at the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union which was held in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2006. It is now a dwarf planet.

Humans have only five senses: It turns out that sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste are not the only sensory responses human beings exhibit. Human sensory receptors can also respond to pain (nociception), changes in temperature (thermoception), changes in balance (equilibrioception), position (proprioception), magnetic direction (magnetoception) and thepassage of time (chronoception).

There are six classes of food: I was taught – and I know most of you were taught – that there are 6 classes of food, namely, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, fats and oil, minerals and water. It is no longer the case. Officially, there are now SEVEN classes of food: proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins (or vegetables), fibers, fats and oil, minerals and water. Fiber is derived from plants and
it was initially left out by nutritionists because it seemingly does not add any nutrient to the
body. What fiber does that it alters the way our gastrointestinal tract absorbs food. Fiber itself is indigestible; it is broken down in the large intestine not by the body’s digestive system, but by the trillions of bacteria that live there.

Christianity is a Western or European
Religion and Europeans brought it to africa: Christianity is one of the world’s largest religion and it originated from Asia in the geographical East. The movement that gave rise to Christianity was begun by Jesus Christ who was born over 2000 years ago in Bethlehem in presentday Palestine. The followers of the teachings of Christ were first called “Christians” in the town of Antioch which is now a historical site in presentday Turkey. Antioch lies on the eastern part of Turkey which is in Asia. It is not clear when Christianity was brought to either Europe or Africa. It is recorded in the Bible that Christ was taken to Egypt as an infant by Mary and Joseph who were fleeing from Herod the Great during the Massacre of the Innocents. However, Christ’s ministry began few years before He was crucified. It is not recorded if He went to Africa or Europe during His ministry. What is clear, though, is that one of His apostles, Mark, established the first church in Africa twelve years after the crucifixion, known as the Church of Alexandria. Some years before that, another apostle, Philip, was recorded in the Acts of the Apostles to have baptized an Ethiopian eunuch on the road leading to Gaza from Jerusalem. The Acts, however, did not tell us where the eunuch went afterwards or if he spread the message in Ethiopia. A church was established in Ethiopia some years after the Church of Alexandria in Egypt and it is still in existence today. Most presentday Ethiopians are Christians and their own form of Christianity is not linked to the ones spread by the Europeans.

Different parts of the tongue detect different tastes and flavours: Even in my university days, I was taught by professors that different parts of the human tongue are specialized for detecting different tastes. The so called tongue map balkanized our taste organ into areas responsible for detecting sweetness, bitterness, saltiness, sourness and unami. Per contra, it turns out that most taste buds on the tongue and in other areas of the mouth can detect any taste irrespective of their position.

Michael Faraday invented electricity: No one actually invented electricity. The form of energy now known as electricity has been there since the beginning of the world. Electricity occurs in
nature. A lightning bolt, for example, releases electricity.

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb: While it is not clear who invented light bulbs, they were being used as electric lights more than 50 years before Thomas Edison patented his famous invention in 1879. What Edison invented was the world’s first commercially viable incandescent light bulb.

Diabetes is caused by sugar: Sugar doesn’t directly cause diabetes, but if you consume too
much sugar, you are likely going to get diabetes. What sugar does is that it increases the quantity of calories in the body. Too many calories in the body lead to weight gain which
significantly increases a person’s likelihood to develop type 2 diabetes.

Mungo Park discovered the Niger River: This is the most rubbish we were ever taught. Mungo Park was only an explorer who journeyed deep into the middle of the river, people had been fishing in the Niger for centuries before Mungo Park’s ancestors were born.