Professor Mahfouz Adedimeji is the pioneer Vice Chancellor of the newly approved Ahman Pategi University(APU), Kwara State. In this interview with Hammed Shittu, he emphasised on its vision and mission of the institution, which is to get highly competitive researchers that will be able to attract funds to the university, among other issues. Excerpt:
When does the university intends to take off?
The take-off time is April 5, 2021. That is what we have in our plan, and we are starting with 100 level students, as well as pre-degree classes (remedial students). We have already interfaced with the JAMB and now on its portal. We are going to admit students, who were not admitted in their schools of first choice. As long as those people are qualified and they approach us as we are appealing to them to do, we are going to consider them for admission. Everything we do now is just to create awareness and let people know that there is one university to beat in Pategi. When you get to the inst
UNILORIN professor appointed pioneer VC of Ahman Pategi University
Mr Adedimeji, a professor of Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, was until his appointment a lecturer and one of the most respected academic figures at the University of Ilorin.
A professor at the
University of Ilorin, Mahfouz Adedimeji, has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the newly-approved Ahman Pategi University, Kwara State.
The pro-chancellor and chairman of the council of the new university, Aliyu Pategi, presented an appointment letter to Mr Adedimeji on Tuesday at the university’s permanent site.
The ceremony was attended by the university’s board of trustees chairman, Isah Mohammed, and the acting registrar, Mustapha Abdullahi.
By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja
THE Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alh. Sa’ad Abubakar, and the apex body of Muslim scholars and Imams, on Friday, expressed no doubt in the ability and commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari to continue and win the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria.
The Muslim clerics, in a communique issued to journalists at the end of a sensitisation programme on COVID-19 vaccine, which was jointly organised by the NSCIA and the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency in Abuja, that they had confidence in the ability of the Federal Government to carry on with quality tests on the medicine before administering them on Nigerians.