FUNAAB Universal Conservices Ltd (FUCONS Ltd) has concluded arrangements to organize a two-day training workshop for newly employed Non-Teaching staff of the University. A release made available by the Director, FUCONS Ltd, Professor Francis Showemimo, informed that the workshop, with the theme “Equipping Result-Oriented University Administrators”, would hold between March 28 and 29, 2012 at the S…

Prof. Phil Harris (4th from right) and WANOART Project Coordinator, Prof. Isaac Aiyelaagbe (4th from left) in a group photograph with participants at the end of the Workshop Experts have stressed the need for increase in the level of awareness on skills development and practice in Organic Agriculture as the panacea to the problems of food insecurity in Africa. This suggestion emanated at the end o…

Mr. Olagoke Abayomi Olaniyi, a student in the Department of Animal Production and Health, College of Animal Science and Livestock Production, has won the First Prize in the 2011 TEEAL Graduate Student Paper Competition. The feat was achieved under the Master’s and Doctoral categories, awarded by the Albert R. Mann Library of the Cornell University, United States of America. Mr. Olaniyi carted away…

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwafemi Olaiya Balogun (arrowed) in a group photograph with Principal Officers, Diplomats and FUFASS graduates, last year . The graduation programme for the second set of the FUNAAB Foreign African Scholarship Scheme (FUFASS) will hold on Monday, March 26, 2012, at the Senate Chamber, at 10.00a.m. According to a release, signed by the Head of FUFASS, Dr. James Daramola…

Some of the security apparatus deployed to the Campus Gate being put to use by personnel of the Sheriff Deputies. To improve on the existing facilities in protecting lives and property on campus, the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has acquired additional state-of-the-art security gadgets. Speaking in an interview with FUNAAB Bulletin in his office, the University’s Assistan…

The Local Organising Committee of the Nigerian Society for Plant Protection has rescheduled its 37th Annual Conference. A release, jointly signed by the LOC Chairman, Prof. Yahaya Adeoti and Secretary, Dr. (Mrs.) Emily Ayo-John, informed that the Conference will now hold from May 6 -10, 2012, as against March 25 - 29, 2012, earlier scheduled. The release said the rescheduling was as a result of th…

Prof. M. Kadiri of the Department of Biological Sciences has been appointed as the Editor of the Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology Journal. He will by virtue of the appointment, serve as a member of the FUNAAB Journal Management Committee. The appointment was approved by the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Prof. Oluwafemi Olaiya Balogun. A release, si…

The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta and Vegefresh Company Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on manpower development in Agriculture. Signing the agreement on behalf of the University was the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Oluwafemi Olaiya Balogun, who was represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Development, Professor Felix Salako, who assured Vegefresh that the Univ…