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…

The University has held a Commendation Service in honour of its late Don, Dr. Solomon Olubiyo, of the Department of Economics, who was also the Deputy Dean, College of Management Sciences (COLMAS) of FUNAAB, before his demise. Delivering his sermon, Professor Adewale Dipeolu, Deputy Chaplain, Chapel of Grace of FUNAAB, recalled that he had known the deceased since 1987, when he came for his Nation…

The Director of the University’s Biotechnology Centre, Professor Olufunmilayo Adebambo, has said that the country will be better positioned to address the food and security challenges bedeviling it, if Biotechnology is adequately funded and adopted. According to her, Biotechnology, which is the technology that is applicable to life; whether dead or alive because the samples of any individual…