FG Appoints Alaafin of Oyo as UNIMAID Chancellor

The Vice-Chancellor UNIMAID Prof. Ibrahim A. Njodi has presented to Oba (Dr.) Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, the Alaafin of Oyo his appointment letter as the Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri.He made the presentation to the Oba at the Oba’s palace when he paid him a courtesy call in Oyo State Wednesday.
Accompanied by Principal Officers and other top management staff of the University, the Vice-Chancellor informed the Oba that the University of Maiduguri which took off in 1976 with just about three hundred students in three Faculties now has an enrolment of over forty thousand undergraduate, postgraduate and non regular students spread over eleven Faculties, a College of Medical Sciences and the University’s seven specialised research and development centres.
The University he further informed the Oba has more than three thousand senior and junior academic and non-academic staff.