Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Has Appoint New Vice Chancellor

 The Governing Council of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has approved the appointment of Adebayo Simeon Bamire, a Professor of Agricultural Economics, as the new substantialVice-Chancellor of the University. 

 

 OAU VC-Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire 

 

 The OAUPro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of the University, Owelle Oscar Udoji at a press briefing on Thursday in Ile-Ife blazoned that Professor Bamire’s appointment is with effect from June 7, 2022. 

Mr Bamire was said to have ranked first ahead of a professor of Art and former deputyvice-chancellor at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Razaq Kalilu, and Kayode Ijadunola, a professor of public health and community drug and former provost of the OAU’s council of health lores, who ranked second and third independently. 

 

 The term of the currentVice-Chancellor, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede expired on June 6, 2022. 

 

 Who's Professor Bamire? 

 Born on January 18, 1959, Mr Bamire hails from Oyan in Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State. 

 He was said to have attendedSt. Clares’Nursery and Primary School, Osogbo, for his primary academy education and had his secondary education atSt. Charles’Grammar School, also in Osogbo. 

 

 He studied Agricultural Economics at the also University of Ife ( now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) and bagged his Bachelorette of Agriculture in 1985;M.Phil., in 1992, andPh.D. in 1999. 

 Mr Bamire’s PhD thesis was said to have won the “ National Universities Postgraduate Thesis Award” in 2001. 

 

 During the term of the university’s 10thvice-chancellor, Bamitale Omole, Mr Bamire had reportedly won the deanship election of the faculty of husbandry by a lone vote. 

 As the doyen, Mr Bamire reportedly had a frosty relationship with the alsovice-chancellor, Mr Omole, who was ultimately chased out of the lot one month to the end of his term in 2016 by protesting workers over allegations of corruption and compromised selection processes of his successor at the time. 

 

 The extremity, which led to the balkanisation of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the lot, ultimately led to the appointment of an actingvice-chancellor-Anthony Elujoba. 

 Still, since the appointment of the gregariousvice-chancellor, Ogunbodede, Mr Omole, a professor of History and International Relations, has had it “ tough” on the lot. 

 

 He reportedly freely retired before this time at the age of 68, rather of staying to attain the 70- time- withdrawal age permitted by the law governing the university system in Nigeria. 

 

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