The University has held a send-forth ceremony for the 2012/2013 Batch ‘C’ Corps Members that served in the institution. Speaking at the occasion, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, called on the corps members to be focused, prayerful and be prepared to take leadership responsibilities. The Vice-Chancellor, who was represented by the Director, Academic Planning, Professor Adekojo Wahee…

The need for food security and poverty alleviation in the sub-Saharan Africa, using root crops, formed a major discussion at the just-concluded 12th Triennial Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops-Africa, held recently in Accra, Ghana. These can be achieved by tapping into the opportunities offered by the root crops; namely - yam, cassava and sweet potatoes - through effec…

The Institute of Food Security, Environmental Resources and Agricultural Research (IFSERAR), has won the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP-Nigeria) grant, in addition to receiving a research license from the European Meteorological Satellite (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt, Germany, that will make it possible to easily download and use environmental and near real-time weather data for r…

A call has gone to the relevant authorities to ensure that only professionals are engaged in the teaching of English language in the nation’s educational institutions, to achieve the desired goals of studying the subject. This was the position of teachers and researchers of English language, under the aegis of the National Association of Teachers and Researchers in English as a Second Language (NA…

The Interim Joint Matriculation Board (IJMB) has approved the University’s Institute of Human Resource Development (INHURD) as a centre for the IJMB ‘A’ Level Programme. The Director of INHURD, Professor Francis Showemimo, said IJMB gave the approval after an inspection tour of the INHURD facility, recently. With the approval, the Institute is permitted to run an IJMB Centre that could admit up to…

All is now set for a collaboration between a Greenlife Agriculture Group and Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone based in Beijing and the University in the areas of Agricultural mechanisation, training, trade, cassava production, processing and exporting. The Chairman, SINO-Nigeria Business Networking Limited, Chief Charles Adebiyi, stated this recently while unfolding the immense opportunities to be g…