EKSU promotes 13 to professor, 28 readers

THE governing council of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti, has approved the promotion of 13 senior members of academic staff to the rank of Professor, and 28 as Readers.

According to a statement by the acting director, Information and Corporate Affairs of the university, Mr Ajibade Olubunmi, the elevation of the academic staff to the rank of professor was as a result of their hard work and commitment to responsibilities of teaching, research and community development.

The new professors from the Faculty of Social Sciences include A. F. Ibimilua, B. O. Bankole, J. A. Ogundele and A. J. Olatunji. Others are Professors Benson Ademiluyi, Adekemi Oluyege and Henry Ogungbende from the Faculty of Science.

New professors from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences are Pius Amoka Aye and Olubunmi Shittu. The Faculty of Education has Professors Gabriel Bolufide Olowoyeye, James Ayodele Oluwatayo and Joseph Afolayan Adegboyega; while Mrs. Margaret Yemisi Ojo was promoted professor in the Faculty of Arts.

The vice chancellor, Professor Samuel Oye Bandele, has since congratulated the new professors and the readers, urging them to continue to work hard and justify their new status.

Meanwhile the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has organised a one-day awareness seminar for the university’s staff in its efforts to enhance its relationship with tertiary institutions to facilitate easy access to funds.

The TETFund delegation to EKSU, led by the deputy director, Education Support Service, Mr Olusegun Jebooda, said its team intended to take the workshop across all universities in Nigeria, and that the exercise had been carried out in the North-Central zone of the country.

Mr Jebooda said that the awareness seminar became imperative as the new executive secretary of TETFund, Dr Abdullahi Bichi Baffa, wants all institutions to be on the same page with the organisation to avoid bottlenecks arising from access to TETFund funding.

In his remarks, Professor Oye Bandele commended the TETFund on the positive development of tertiary institutions, saying that the seminar would greatly help the university to perfect its presentation to the agency.