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University of Ibadan
Established: 1948
Type: Public
Vice-Chancellor: Prof. The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point A public university is a University that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government as opposed to private universities. A Vice-Chancellor (commonly called the VC) of a University in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, Olufemi Adebisi Bamiro
Location: Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria
Website: http://www.ui.edu.ng/

The University of Ibadan is the oldest Nigerian university, and is located five miles (8 kilometres) from the centre of the major city of Ibadan in Western Nigeria. Ibadan (Ìlú Èbá-Ọdàn the town at the junction the savannah and the forest the Capital of Oyo State, is the third largest city Geography Oyo State cover approximately an area of 28454 square kilometers and ranked 14th by size Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Nigeria, a large African nation is organised into 36 states and a federal capital territory(FCT in Abuja. Ibadan (Ìlú Èbá-Ọdàn the town at the junction the savannah and the forest the Capital of Oyo State, is the third largest city It has over 12,000 students.

The University was founded on its own site on 17 November 1948. Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The site of the University was leased to the colonial authorities by Ibadan Chiefs for 999 years. The first students began courses in January of that year. Arthur Creech Jones, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, inaugurated the new educational institution. Arthur Creech Jones ( 15 May, 1891 &ndash 23 October, 1964) was a British Trade union official and politician The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet official in charge of managing the various British Colonies. The University was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London. The University of London is a university based primarily in London, England, UK. Some of the original buildings were designed by the English modernist architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE RA FRIBA FRTPI usually known as Maxwell Fry (2 August 1899 &ndash 3 September 1987 was an English modernist Architect Dame Jane Drew DBE, FRIBA ( 24 March 1911 &ndash 27 July 1996) was an English Modernist Architect A 500-bed teaching hospital was added in 1957. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Ibadan became an independent university in 1962. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

In late 1963, on the University playing fields, with the celebration marked by talking drums, the Rt. The talking drum is a West African Drum whose pitch can be regulated to the extent that it is said the drum " talks " Hon. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, first Prime Minister of independent Nigeria, became the first Chancellor of its independent University. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (December 1912 - January 15, 1966) was a Nigerian Politician, and the first Prime minister of an independent Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal The first Nigerian vice chancellor of the university was professor Kenneth Dike, after whom University of Ibadan's library is named. Kenneth Dike (1917-1983 was a Nigerian Historian and the first Nigerian Vice Chancellor of the nation's premier college the University of Ibadan.

Besides the College of Medicine, there are now ten other faculties: Arts, Science, Agriculture and Forestry, Social Sciences, Education, Veterinary Medicine, Technology, Law, Public Health and Dentistry.

The University has residential and sports facilities for staff and students on Campus, as well as separate botanical and zoological gardens.

University of Ibadan boasts among its former students several eminent scholars, including Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart; Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature; Odia Ofeimun (a popular Nigerian poet); Jacob Ade Ajayi (one of Africa's foremost historians); Paul Iyogun (Distinguished Operations Management Professor), Abiola Irele and the writer Kole Omotosho. Things Fall Apart is a 1959 English-language novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred Jacob Ade Ajayi is a Nigerian historian and a member of the Ibadan school, a group of scholars interested in introducing African perspectives to African Francis Abiola Irele (commonly Abiola Irele, born 1936 is a Nigerian academic who has been called the doyen of Africanist literary scholars worldwide Bankole Ajibabi Omotosho known as Kole Omotosho or Kole Omotoso (born April 21, 1943) is a Nigerian writer and intellectual known for his dedication and Its faculty also includes the renowned Nigerian poet and folksinger Niyi Osundare, who is Professor of English there. Niyi Osundare (born in 1947 in Ikere-Ekiti, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a prolific poet dramatist and literary critic It remains a major pioneer in the development of research south of the Sahara.

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Administration

The underlisted are some of the principal members of the University administration:

People
Title Position
Mr Gamaliel Onosode Pro-Chancellor
Professor Olufemi Bamiro Vice-Chancellor
Professor Ayo Ogunkunle Administration Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Professor Adigun A. B. Agbaje Academics Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Professor Ayo Falaye Students Dean
Omotayo O. Ikotun Registrar
Mr J. A. Bankole Bursar
Dr. Benedict A. Oladele Librarian

Faculties

Units

Halls of residence

The University is primarily residential with Halls of residence for both male & Female students. There is also provision for accommodation of post-graduate students, the halls are listed below:

External links

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