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OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY presents its First Distinguished Guest Lecture
Title: Democracy, Federalism and Higher Education Development in Nigeria
Guest Lecturer: His Excellency, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN, Executive Governor of Lagos State.
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURE, OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY, IKIRE CAMPUS
Cordially Invites the General Public to its 2012 Distinguished College Lecture
Topic: Culture, Development and Empowerment in Africa
Guest Speaker: Professor Tunde Babawale
(Director-General, Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC), Lagos)
The Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, Professor Sola Akinrinade, FHSN, has congratulated the Governor of the State of Osun and Visitor to Osun State University, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on the occasion of his 55th birthday.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Notice is hereby given to the Nigerian and global academic community that the post of Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University shall become vacant on August 1, 2012.
Osun State University hereby announces that the position of University Librarian is vacant. Applications are hereby invited from suitably qualified candidates for the post. Interested applicants are requested to note the following information.
Being Presentation by Professor Sola Akinrinade, Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University, at the 52nd Interdisciplinary Research Discourse of the Postgraduate School, University of Ibadan, 26th April, 2012.
The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), has accredited the undergraduate engineering programmes of the institution. This was contained in a letter Ref. No. COREN/HQ/ET/15/Vol. I/166/54 dated 16th March 2012, signed by the Registrar of the Council, Engr. Felix Atume, FNSE, mni.
Deadline for article submission is May 31st, 2012
The University Osun State University is pleased to announce the take-off of the UNIOSUN Journal of Science (UJS) under the Vice-Chancellor’s Office. We hereby invite submission of articles for consideration in the field of Agriculture, Basic and Applied Sciences, Engineering, Health Sciences, Pharmacy, Environmental Sciences and related sciences.
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of a 7-man visitation panel, headed by a Professor of Agronomy in the College of Agriculture of Osun State University, Professor Olurotimi Tayo, to unravel allegations of fraud and poor
management system against the Governing Council and management of the Federal Universit y of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta State.
The Minister of Education, Professor Ruqqayatu Rufai who made the announcement while inaugurating the visitation panel in Abuja, stated that the panel was constituted following series of petitions received in her office. The panel is expected to investigate the inability of the institution to attract and employ qualified staff to fill critical vacancies; find out channels through which federal government’s subventions are misapplied and the reason for disregard for protocol and tenets of the public service rules by the university management. The Panel is expected to come up with useful recommendations that would assist the government in taking appropriate decisions concerning the University. The Minister listed other members of the panel as Ikenna Onyido, Chris Tamuno, Abdu Gimba, Adamu Ahmed, P. Oshio and Ori Okojokwu.
While reacting to the appointment, the Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, Professor Sola Akinrinade said Professor Tayo is an experienced scholar and administrator and wished him success in the assignment. The Vice-Chancellor recalled that in 2011, two former staff of the institution were appointed foundation Vice-Chancellors of Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogwa and Adeleke University, Ede while the Acting Provost of the College of Education of Osun State University, Professor Oladega Soriyan was also appointed by Ogun State Government as member of a visitation and fact-finding panel for Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta. He promised that Osun State University would continue to raise men and women imbued with the requisite skills, knowledge and competencies to be the arrow heads of the socio- economic and technological development of Nigeria.
Professor Alebiosu C. Olutayo, the Provost of the College of Health Sciences at Osun State University has warned the general public to refrain from the consumption of medications without prescriptions. Professor Alebiosu gave this warning while delivering the seventh Inaugural Lecture of the institution titled: ‘Emerging Epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases – Conspiracy against the kidney’.
The West African Research and Innovation Management Association (WARIMA) in collaboration with Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife is pleased to announce the 6th WARIMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria on October 21 - 26, 2012.
Theme: Managing Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development.
Deadline for article submission is 30 June, 2012
The University Osun State University is pleased to announce the take-off of the UNIOSUN Journal of Law, Development and the Humanities. We hereby invite submission of articles for consideration in the field of law, the humanities and social sciences.