The September edition of the popular monthly interview discourse, Boiling Point Arena, targeted at addressing the decadence in Nigeria’s university system, is eliciting intense enthusiasm and eagerness within the academia.
The programme holds next Sunday, September 14, 2025, featuring an internationally acclaimed scholar and erstwhile Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof Wande Abimbola.
To be transmitted via Zoom at 8 p.m., the once-in-a-month global online show is to be broadcast live on six radio stations across Lagos, Ogun and Delta states as well as on a cable television, NSTV on GoTV Channel 316.
Boiling Point Arena which commands an incredibly large online followership and wide listenership base, is hosted by a media professional and public relations strategist, Dr Ayo Arowojolu.
The 35th episode since the current affairs programme began three years ago, has as its theme, “Nigerian Universities: Tower of Crises, Citadel of Missed Opportunities. Can the Lost Glory be Reclaimed?”
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Expectedly, the bar of narratives will be raised on how to address the many years of systemic and infrastructural decadence in the Ivory towers in Nigeria with a view to charting a new path and reclaiming the lost glory of the nation’s apex education system.
There are strong expectations from the academic community that Prof. Wande Abimbola would draw from his acclaimed phenomenal leadership at the then University of Ife before and after the institution got renamed in honour of Obafemi Awolowo in 1987 following the demise of the late sage.
Prof Abimbola’s current pedigree as a teaching scholar in some universities in America where he presently resides at over age 92 would further deepen his capacity to offer enriching perspectives on how to rejig the universities in Nigeria.
Foremost traditional ruler, the Olowu of Owu Kingdom, Oba Prof Saka Matemilola, is the Keynote Speaker and chairman to herald the discourse on Sunday.
A well-publicized discourse, Boiling Point Arena will be broadcast live on WASH 94.9FM, Sweet 107.1FM, Roots 97.1FM, Erimbe 94.7FM, Women Radio 91.7FM and Kruzz 92.9FM as well as on NSTV on GoTV channel 316.
Boiling Point is a news and general interest Group comprising of eminent personalities including over 300 professors, media professionals, technocrats, industry leaders, high court justices, traditional rulers, security top shots and several others.
