The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Kolawole Salako has paid a courtesy visit to the new Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Command, Mr. Edward Ajogun in his office at the State Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta. Congratulating the new CP on his appointment, the Vice-Chancellor described the University as a friend of the command that had enjoyed cordial relationship with previous leaderships of the pol…

FUNAAB is set to partner Sandia National Laboratories’ Global Chemical and Biological Security (SNL/GCBS), on behalf of the United States Department of State (DOS-BEP), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Biological Threat Reduction Programme (DTRA-BTRP), to create awareness on Biorisk Management (BRM) and to develop human capacity for BRM outreach and institutional implementation. The Deput…

In line with the Ogun State Government’s directive that all students should resume in school, the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta International School (FUNIS) has reiterated its commitment towards the overall security and protection of students’ lives in the face of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Acting Principal, Mrs. Emily Okpete stated that FUNIS is readily prepared to wel…

People often think that hypertension is a health challenge that affects only adults, who have problems and worry about so many things, but that is not the case. It has been recently discovered that the disease can present itself at any age and even in a newborn. In a newborn, hypertension is associated with the lack of energy, difficulty in breathing, convulsions and inability to grow well. Among …

Members of the University Governing Council recently embarked on an inspection tour of projects on campus. Projects inspected are the newly-completed Academic Building, completed College of Plant Science and Crop Production (COLPLANT) Phase II, renovated COLPLANT Auditorium; Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH), College of Veterinary Medicine (COLVET), ongoing renovation at the Iyalode Tinubu Female…

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Kolawole Salako, has given out his daughter, Oludolapo in Holy Matrimony to Oluseun Agbejobi at the Living Spring Chapel International, Onikolobo, Abeokuta, Ogun State. In his sermon titled “God’s Purpose for Marriage”, the Presiding Pastor of the church, Pastor Femi Emmanuel, decried the high rate of abuses in marriage today, stressing that such abuses happen because mo…

Applicants seeking undergraduate admission into 100, 200 and 300 levels in University are invited to register on-line for the 2020/2021 admission exercise. According to the Registrar, Dr. ‘Bola Adekola, applications must be from suitably-qualified candidates, who had applied to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and chosen FUNAAB as their Most Preferred Institution.  The Un…

The management of FUNAAB Staff School (FSS) has indicated its preparedness towards school resumption on Monday, September 21, 2020 for the first term in the 2020/2021 academic session in line with the directives of the Ogun State Government. The Headteacher of the school, Mrs. Florence Alade revealed that as part of preparations, FSS had trained and designated teachers as first line respondents wh…

Drug abuse is the legal or illegal use of drugs by individuals in a harmful way, thereby bringing severe consequences, which most times, could affect the health and mental state of individuals. The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes drug or substance abuse as the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, which affect the mind, mood or other mental processes in the body, including…

The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) is hereby using this medium to refute the news circulating online that the university is set to resume September 28, 2020. For the information of the general public, FUNAAB hereby states that the university has not decided on any day for students' resumption, and thereby dissociates itself from any purported claim by the originators of the i…

The University Registrar, Dr. ‘Bola Adekola has been appreciated by the Association of African Universities (AAU) for the educative and incisive lecture he delivered at a webinar hosted by AAU on “Challenges of Human Resources Management in African Universities During the Pandemic”. The Secretary-General of AAU, Prof. Emile Ehile lauded the Registrar for being the keynote speaker at the event wher…