Education

FUNAAB Acting VC, Professor Olusola Kehinde Assumes Office

By Web News 693

The new Acting Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta FUNAAB, Professor Olusola Kehinde has assumed office with a promise to consolidate the institution’s tradition of excellence initiated by the founding fathers.

Speaking at a brief handover ceremony between him and the sixth substantive Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Kolawole Salako, the Acting Vice Chancellor solicited the support and cooperation of all members of the university community. 

While promising to do his utmost best to provide quality and responsible leadership during his six months tenure in office, Professor Kehinde said he understood the gravity of occupying the office during a transition period, noting that he would require the commitment of both the internal and external publics of the institution. 

The Acting Vice Chancellor also implored members of the University Community to ensure that due process was followed in the bid to settle all grievances without causing embarrassment to the system.

He announced that the Governing Council of the institution would soon unfold the timeline plan for a peaceful transition in the University following the expiration of the tenure of Professor Kolawole Salako as the sixth substantive Vice Chancellor of the university.

Olusegun Folarin

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Education

Reinstate Management Courses in FUNAAB – VC

By Web News 925

Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, Professor Kolawole Salako wants the restoration of the institution’s College of Management Sciences for knowledge development in the society.

The Vice-Chancellor made this known at the University Senate while addressing newsmen as part of the Twenty Seventh Convocation of the institution.

Professor Salako explained that agriculture accommodates all disciplines known to man and stated that the institution is a multidisciplinary school, hence the need to restore the management courses.

The Vice-Chancellor said the 27th Convocation of the institution would graduate three thousand, two hundred twenty-six.

Professor Salako hinted that some of the twenty-three projects embarked upon by the present administration of the university are to be inaugurated as part of the convocation ceremony.

The Vice-Chancellor, alongside the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics, Professor Bolanle Akeredolu-Ale and other top management members of the university also inspected some agriculture innovations and products of the students and staff of the institution at the exhibition ground.

Wale Oluokun