FOUYE embarks on internal restructuring, deploys new departmental heads

The Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has begun the process of internal re-organization aimed to further position the ivory tower for academic excellence and administrative efficiency. 

The Acting Vice-Chancellor of FUOYE, Professor Olubunmi Shittu, had communicated the intention of management to the Governing Council of the University to notify and seek the approval of the council for certain redeployments across various departments and faculties of the university. 

According to the acting Vice-Chancellor, the redeployments were necessary to restructure the administrative processes in the university ahead of the upcoming academic year and to cater for the vast number of prospective candidates for admission into the university. 

It would be recalled that FUOYE has the third highest numbers of applications for admission in the 2025/26 academic years according to the database of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board.

According to Professor Shittu, the effort is geared towards ensuring that, “all directors who have spent four years and above should be replaced and that the appointment of Head of Departments should be by seniority, except where the most senior person is having pending disciplinary action.”

The Governing Council in its reaction to the development approved of all postings relating the Head of Department and faculty Deans, in the event that there are no financial implications to the decision.

The Council, however, rejected the deployment of a new Procurement Officer on the ground that there is backlog of procurement that needed to be cleared, as time was of the essence.

The other reason for the rejection of new procurement officer for the university, according to a a memo dated 4 August, was because “there is accreditation in September/October 2025 and this will affect progress, and to ensure that recruitment into the department is based on merit and accreditation of the Bureau of Public Procurement.”

The objection of council further stems from a recent memo from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), dated 25 July, 2025 about evaluation and monitoring of high impact project intervention in the university, as it relates to the fourth floor of the Senate Building of the University.

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