INTRODUCTION: The regional initiative of Africa Higher Education Centers of Excellence (ACE) was launched in 2013 to support change and improvement in Human Capital Development within the region. The ACE project was successfully introduced in eight West and Central Africa countries with a US$150 million investment approved by IDA in April 2014. Nineteen (19) ACEs were competitively selected in Ben…

The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) and the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the areas of research and training collaboration. The MoU is in pursuit of excellence in scholarship and dissemination of knowledge to generate reciprocal benefit within a framework of openness, fairness and equi…

The University has recorded yet another feat in the area of webometrics. This piece of information was disclosed by Dr. Olutayo Ajayi, the Acting Head, Information and Communication Resource Centre (ICTREC). According to Dr. Ajayi, despite the small size and age, FUNAAB remained a forerunner in webometrics ranking in Nigeria, ahead of some first or second generation universities such as University…

A Professor of Food Engineering in the Department of Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering, College of Engineering (COLENG), Professor Babatunde Adewumi, has disclosed that his interest in solving practical problems in the society had been the driving force behind his research as an academic. According to the Don, “The passion to help, whenever there is a challenge, drives my breakthrough. I l…

The University Governing Council, at its 90th Statutory Meeting, held on Thursday, November 10, 2016, considered reports on the University. According to the Registrar and Secretary to Council, Mr. Mathew Ayoola, as part of necessary reforms aimed at repositioning the University, the Governing Council approved Management's decisions earlier taken to restore normal academic activities and peace to t…

The National Health and Family Planning Commission of China and the Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), World Health Organisation (WHO), in partnership with the University, have agreed to create and strengthen collaboration between African and Chinese research institutions in order to scale up Schistosomiasis control and its elimination by taking advantage of the success of China in …

Recently, the National Universities Commission (NUC) announced the scrapping of Pre-degree and Diploma programmes in Nigerian universities. In view of this development, the Director, Institute for Human Resources Development (INHURD), Professor Francis Showemimo, has made some clarifications on the effect of the ban on the activities of INHURD, saying the directive had not in a way affected the in…

Reverend Elijah Ajayi, a former Bursar of the University, who passed on recently at the age of 66, would be buried on November 25, 2016. Rev. Ajayi was appointed as the University Bursar on November 1, 2000 and was re-appointed for a second term on November 1, 2005. He was born at the Boto Village, Owode District of the Obafemi/Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State on February 14, 1950. He at…

Some FUNAAB Dons have added their voice to the continued relevance of specialised universities in the country, saying they are doing enough to justify their mandate. The Dons, who expressed their opinion on the matter, however, called on the Federal Government to strengthen the universities to enable them, deliver their best.       According to Professor Kolawole Adebayo, an expert in Rural De…