The Governing Council of the University of Ilorin has announced Professor Wahab Olasupo Egbewole as the institution’s next Vice Chancellor.
The university was established by a decree of the federal military government in August 1975.
Professor Wahab Olasupo Egbewole has been nominated by the Governing Council of the institution to succeed Professor Sulaiman Abdulkarim Age whose tenure ends next month.
Egbewole would become the 12th Vice Chancellor of the University on 15th of October 2022.
Chairman of the Governing Council, Mallam Abdu Yazid made this announcement during the press conference he presided over at the Council Chamber of the institution on Thursday which was attended by journalists including Team@orientactualmags.com .
At exactly 6.09 pm, Yazid , who read from a prepared text , noted that the selection process that had begun in March this year , had ended with the announcement of Professor Egbewole as Abdulkarim’s successor.
He noted that at the start of the selection process, twenty nine candidates had sought to get appointed as the institution’s next Vice Chancellor while efforts were made to also encourage some other people to apply.
Yazid said thirteen candidates were later shortlisted adding that it took the council four days to double-check their credentials and interact with them seeking to know if they would sustain commitment to the mission statement and vision of the university.
Yazid noted that the qualities sought for before choosing Egbewole as Vice Chancellor-designate include being a candidate ‘that would support and be sympathetic to the needs of students at the institution , interface and work smoothly with other faculty members while being mindful of the needs and aspirations of the community where the institution is located’.
Such a candidate, he added, must be truly concerned about the progress of the university and its responsibility to the country.
He later announced the nomination of Egbewole as the institution’s next Vice Chancellor.
Egbewole would be the first Senior Advocate of Nigeria and the first Osun state citizen to serve as head of the institution since its establishment in August 1975.
Interestingly, the two public universities in Kwara state would from next month have professors of law and Senior Advocates of Nigeria as Vice Chancellors.
Egbewole became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2018 .
Professor Mustapha Mohammed-Akanbi, who is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, became the Vice Chancellor of the Kwara state University, Malete on 1 April 2020 -Team@orientactualmags.com
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