Professor Peter Okuneye, a renowned researcher and scholar in the field of Agricultural and Environmental Economics in the University, has debunked allegations that the nation's cocoa has lost its value and does not meet international standards. Rather, the Don noted that the quality of cocoa being produced in the country remains one of the best in the world. Professor Okuneye made a case for reli…

The Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management (FMW), College of Environmental Resources Management (COLERM), has partnered the Directorate of Public Relations (DPR) of the University, in the training of final year students of the Department in the art of photography. The training, which was part of the students’ industrial training programme, was carried out by the Assistant Chief Technical O…

Dr. Olubukola Adenubi, a lecturer in the College of Veterinary Medicine (COLVET) of the University, has been conferred with the 2015 L’Oréal-United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for Women in Science Doctoral Fellowship. She was among the nine recipients that bagged the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Doctoral Fellowships. In qualifying for the award, 12 femal…

The Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (CAVA II), a research project sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is poised to promote value addition to cassava. CAVA II is led by the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria, working closely with the Natural Resources Institute of University of Greenwich, United Kingdom; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria, F…

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, has congratulated the University of Greenwich’s Natural Resources Institute (NRI) ground-breaking work on cassava that led it to bag the prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education.  In an official electronic mail, Professor Oyewole said the University was glad to be associated with NRI, adding that FUNAAB was also gratef…

Members of the immediate family of the former Deputy Dean, College of Management Sciences (COLMAS) of FUNAAB, late Dr. Solomon Olubiyo, has donated books, periodicals and journals to the ‘Nimbe Adedipe Library, as well as the Department of Economics of the University.             Making the donation, the wife of the deceased, Mrs. Lyd…

A postgraduate student, who is currently undergoing a Doctorate degree in Parasitology in the University, Mr. Olabanji Surakat, is rising high courtesy of the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), based in Seattle, United States of America, for his immense contributions to the alleviation of Onchocerciasis, a disease commonly known as River Blindness. PATH has offered Olabanji, an…

The Health Records Officers’ Registration Board of Nigeria (HRORBN), under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Health, has indicated keen interest in partnering the International Centre for Professional Development (ICPD) of the University, in the area of providing Electronic Health Record (EHR) services. The Chairman, Board of ICPD and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Development, Professor F…

The University Registrar, Mr. Mathew Ayoola, has been conferred with the highest award of the Chartered Institute of Public Management of Nigeria (CIPM), which is the Fellowship. He was recently conferred alongside four senior members of staff of FUNAAB at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research Guest House, Lagos. The other staff are the Deputy Director, Senate and Admissions, Mr. Aniediabasi …

Mr. Nurudeen Oyelami, a graduate of the University from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, College of Agricultural Management and Rural Development (COLAMRUD), has been conferred with the Akwa-Ibom State honours award as the Most Outstanding Corps Member of the Year.  Oyelami was called up for the Batch ‘B’ National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in August, 2014 in Akwa-Ibom…