“The outcome of the Lanre-Bello Debate does not give the notion of our performance heading into the Jaw War"- FATSSSA L and D President



by Emmanuel Akinwale


The 13th edition of the Lanre-Bello inter-Faculty Debate Competition took place on the 8th of November, 2024 at the Faculty of Agric’s First Bank. The event organised by the JCI (Junior Chamber International) UI chapter, slated to commence at 10 am, saw seventeen Faculties in the University of Ibadan, engage in a battle of wits.


Recall, that the Faculty of the Social Sciences is one of the seventeen Faculties to partake in the competition. The outcome of the debating contest saw the Faculty of the Social Sciences represented by Yahaya Dorcas with a score of 67% get walloped by the Faculty of Dentistry represented by Okeluwe Patrick with a score of 75%. In the Oratory contest, however, Abiodun Oluwatimilehin, representing the Faculty of the Social Sciences, scored 61.3%.


Overall, the Faculty of the Social Sciences with an aggregate score of 64.15% ranked 5th among the seventeen Faculties, just below Dentistry, 68.5%; Clinical Science, 68%; Science, 66.5%; and Law 64.85%.


FATSSSA’s performance in the competition has sparked mixed reactions in the Faculty as students of the FATSSSA Community remained agitated regarding the readiness of the FATSSSA Literary and Debating Society, heading to the Jaw War. 


Reacting to the outcome of the competition, FATSSSA L and D President, Bobola James stated; “The outcome of the Debate does not give the notion of our performance heading into the Jaw War. Our failure to emerge was not an error on our path but the lack of rigour (of the adjudicators) in analysing context because our opponents veered off the topic of the debate in their arguments”

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