The 12 candidates jostling for the position of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan will on Thursday, July 23 be short-listed by the Council of the institution.
The lucky ones that meet the short- listing will on Monday, July 27 face the interview panel to further determine their eligibility for the post, New Telegraph authoritatively gathered Sunday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The last stage of the screening exercise will be the ratification of the best of all the candidates, who will take over the baton of leadership from Professor Isaac Folorunsho Adewole, who bows out of the office in November this year when his five-year tenure lapses.
The candidates had last Tuesday presented their agenda for the university at a community interactive forum organised by the various unions in the institution. The forum led, by Professor Nelson Fashina and chaired by the legal luminary, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), was coordinated by Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) and held at the Trenchard Hall of the premier university.
The candidates, among whom one will eventually emerge as the 12th Vice Chancellor of the 61-old institution are: Professors Dele Layiwola (Institute of African Studies), Akinyinka Olusegun
(Pediatrics), Francis Egbokhare (Linguistics and African Languages), Kunle Fagbemi (Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology).
Others include: Professors Labode Popoola (Forest Resources Management), Abel Olayinka (Geology), Ayodeji Oluleye
(Industrial and Production Engineering), Olufemi David Olaleye (Virology), Augustine Falaye (Aquaculture and Fisheries Management), Adigun Agbaje (Political Science), Adedeji Olanrewaju
(Medicine, LASU), and Muphtha Smith (Crop, Soil and Pest Management
from the Federal University of Technology, Akure).
Professor Arinola Sanya of the Physiotherapy department, College of Medicine, Ibadan, who was initially in the
race and would have made the number to be 13, was, however, absent at the last week’s interactive forum. No reason was given by the organisers.
Since the forum had no legal teeth to disqualify any of the contestants, New Telegraph, however, learnt that
Arinola’s absence did not matter as she could still be in the race, and might be among those to be short-listed by the Dr. Musa Umar Mustapha-led Council.
In the next two weeks, the University of Ibadan community will know the next Vice Chancellor that will steer the affairs of the institution till 2020.
The lucky ones that meet the short- listing will on Monday, July 27 face the interview panel to further determine their eligibility for the post, New Telegraph authoritatively gathered Sunday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The last stage of the screening exercise will be the ratification of the best of all the candidates, who will take over the baton of leadership from Professor Isaac Folorunsho Adewole, who bows out of the office in November this year when his five-year tenure lapses.
The candidates had last Tuesday presented their agenda for the university at a community interactive forum organised by the various unions in the institution. The forum led, by Professor Nelson Fashina and chaired by the legal luminary, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), was coordinated by Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) and held at the Trenchard Hall of the premier university.
The candidates, among whom one will eventually emerge as the 12th Vice Chancellor of the 61-old institution are: Professors Dele Layiwola (Institute of African Studies), Akinyinka Olusegun
(Pediatrics), Francis Egbokhare (Linguistics and African Languages), Kunle Fagbemi (Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology).
Others include: Professors Labode Popoola (Forest Resources Management), Abel Olayinka (Geology), Ayodeji Oluleye
(Industrial and Production Engineering), Olufemi David Olaleye (Virology), Augustine Falaye (Aquaculture and Fisheries Management), Adigun Agbaje (Political Science), Adedeji Olanrewaju
(Medicine, LASU), and Muphtha Smith (Crop, Soil and Pest Management
from the Federal University of Technology, Akure).
Professor Arinola Sanya of the Physiotherapy department, College of Medicine, Ibadan, who was initially in the
race and would have made the number to be 13, was, however, absent at the last week’s interactive forum. No reason was given by the organisers.
Since the forum had no legal teeth to disqualify any of the contestants, New Telegraph, however, learnt that
Arinola’s absence did not matter as she could still be in the race, and might be among those to be short-listed by the Dr. Musa Umar Mustapha-led Council.
In the next two weeks, the University of Ibadan community will know the next Vice Chancellor that will steer the affairs of the institution till 2020.
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