President Bola Tinubu has appointed Chisom Obih to the governing council of Alex Ekwueme Federal University in Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi state, following the death of a council member.
Tinubu also named Ralph Akinfeleye, a communications specialist and former head of the Mass Communication Department at the University of Lagos, to the governing council of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Akinfeleye, chairman of the university’s Centre of Excellence in Multimedia and Cinematography/Unilag Radio 103.1 FM and Television, previously served on the governing council of Yakubu Gowon University in Abuja. He replaces Wahab Owokoniran, who was appointed pro-chancellor and chairman of the Federal University of Transport in Daura, Katsina state.
In the same announcement, Tinubu appointed Ibrahim Adamu Yakasai as Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences and Technology in Tsafe, Zamfara State. Hamisu Yusuf Yelwa was named registrar, Usman Nakazalle Sanusi as bursar, and Shehu Aminu Liman as librarian.
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Yakasai, a retired Nigerian Army colonel, is provost of the College of Health Sciences at Bayero University in Kano and chairs the Committee of Provosts of Colleges of Medicine in Nigeria. He also serves on the governing council of the Federal University of Health Sciences in Otukpo, Benue state.
He earned his medical degree from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria and received a European Economic Commission scholarship for postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom, becoming a member and fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Yakasai later obtained a master’s degree in medical education from the University of Winchester and fellowships from the International College of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. He previously served as director-general of the Hospitals Management Board in Kano state.
The appointments were announced Tuesday in a statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu’s special adviser on information and strategy.
