CALLING ALL UNILAG STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HUAWEI ICT COMPETITION ROADSHOW, OCT. 19
Would you like to be the next global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) champion? Register for the 2026-2027 Huawei ICT Competition Roadshow for a chance to become a global ICT champion! Event Details:Date: Monday, October 19, 2026Time: 9:00 a.m.Venue: Julius Berger Hall, UNILAG, AkokaRegistration: Free. Interested students should register via https://forms.gle/RMUYmyUsfsCmtXT26 Participants Stand to Gain: UNILAG has done it before. Mr. Peter A. Fagbola of the Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, trained at […]
UNILAG Holds EIBIC 3.0, Charges Distance Learning Students on Entrepreneurship, Value Creation and Innovation
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Monday, September 14, 2026, held the third edition of its Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Business Incubation Certification (EIBIC 3.0) Programme for 100 and 200-level students of the Distance Learning Institute (DLI) at the Jelili Omotola Multipurpose Halls, UNILAG. The event brought together the University’s management, corporate partners, practising entrepreneurs and DLI students for a day built around a central conviction: that a UNILAG degree should serve as a platform for […]
5th DLI Colloquium: Experts Call for Stronger ODL Ecosystem, Ethical AI Integration to Expand Access to Quality Education
Nigeria’s growing demand for higher education, coupled with the limited capacity of conventional university infrastructure, has made Open and Distance Learning (ODL) an increasingly important pathway for expanding access, developing skills and preparing learners for a contemporary labour market being transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies. This was the thrust of discussions at the 5th Colloquium of the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos (DLI-UNILAG). Held on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at the […]
From Access to Intelligence: DLI Opens New Conversation on AI and the Future of Distance Learning
Three hundred and forty eight (348) days after the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos (DLI, UNILAG), began a conversation on making education more inclusive, the conversation has moved a step further to what learning itself could become in the age of Artificial Intelligence. The setting was familiar, but the question had changed. At the Tayo Aderinokun Hall, where former Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, challenged stakeholders in September 2025 to […]
UNILAG Researcher Validates Local African Mistletoe as Alternative Breakthrough for Diabetes Management
A plant most people dismiss as a nuisance clinging to tree branches has yielded what may be one of the most promising contributions to diabetes science in recent years, by the University of Lagos. For centuries, African mistletoe has hung quietly from trees across Nigeria, harvested by herb sellers long before anyone could explain why it worked. The findings were presented by Dr Elizabeth Oluwakemi Bamgbade, a lecturer in the Chemistry Unit of the Distance […]
