The 2016/2017 Academic Session Matriculation Ceremony holds on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at the FUNAAB Ceremonial Building, beginning at 9am. A total of 3,062 newly registered students from the 10 Colleges of the University, are expected to participate in the event, to be presided-over by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole. Meanwhile, a Commencement Lecture is to also take place during…

Arrangements are in top gear for the delivery of the 53rd Inaugural Lecture of the University titled, “Grasses: Production and Management for Sustainable Livestock Industry”. Professor Olufemi Onifade of the Department of Pasture and Range Management, College of Animal Science and Livestock Production (COLANIM), is to deliver the lecture on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, at the FUNAAB Ceremonial Build…

The Directorate of Public Relations (DPR) and the Directorate of Internal Audit of the University, have received donations from members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) that served in University, as the DPR also hosted executive members of the FUNAAB Postgraduate Students Association. The corpers said the gesture was their modest way of contributing to the University; being their place o…

The University has recorded another milestone in addition to the previous achievements it had made over the years. This time around, FUNAAB, in partnership with the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, United Kingdom, have been selected as the winner of the $500,000 Cassava Innovation Challenge grant, alongside the needed technical assistance, to test and market a polythene …

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, has charged newly-admitted students to be disciplined and hardworking, noting that the University has zero tolerance for indiscipline, laziness and other vices. Stating these, at the 2016/2017 Academic Session Orientation Programme for Fresh Students, Professor Oyewole, noted that the University was committed to producing graduates, who are worthy in…

As part of efforts at realising the mandates of the University; teaching, research and extension services, the 'Nimbe Adedipe Library has made provisions for a 12-room carrel that is; study rooms, for the use of researchers and postgraduate students, who may require some privacy in the course of carrying out their research work. According to the University Librarian, Dr. Mulikat Salaam, the carrel…

Some female students of the University have made waves at the squash tournament recently organised to mark the 80th Birthday celebration of the nation’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, at the sprawling Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State. The students are: Miss Chinyere Mmaduekobi, who captained the team and also emerged as the Ogun State Second Best Play…

A team of experts from the World Bank and the National Universities Commission (NUC), Abuja, have commended the activities of the University’s World Bank Africa Centre of Excellence in Agriculture (CEADESE), a project sponsored by the World Bank. According to the Director of the Centre, Professor Okanlanwon Onagbesan, the supervisory team always visits the University, every six months, to ensure t…