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“It is our goal to be among the very best universities in our nation and our world and that means we have to have the best talent… Endowed faculty professorships and chairs make it possible to recruit and retain that talent”
– Brochure of the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States
In March 2016, the Awujale of Ijebuland, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Dr.) Sikiru Kayode Adetona, who turned 87 on Monday, organised an elaborate fundraising ceremony with the purpose of creating an endowed professorial chair in governance at the Department of Political Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University. The culture of endowed professorships has yet to take root in Nigeria’s underdeveloped academic setting and it is no wonder that many in the academic community, and certainly, beyond it, are not familiar with the idea, and its potential as a conveyor belt of academic excellence. What is an endowed professorial chair? The U