University of Ibadan

University of Ibadan
Established	1948
Type	Public
Chairman	Chief Wole Olanipekun
Chancellor	Alhaji Ado Bayero
Vice-Chancellor	Isaac F. Adewole
Location	Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria
Website	www.ui.edu.ng

The University of Ibadan is the oldest Nigerian university,^[1][2] and is located five miles (8 kilometres) from the centre of the major city of Ibadan in Western Nigeria. It has over 12,000 students.

Besides the College of Medicine, there are now ten other faculties: Arts, Science, Agriculture and Forestry, Social Sciences, Education, Veterinary Medicine, Technology, Law, Public Health and Dentistry. The University has residential and sports facilities for staff and students on Campus, as well as separate botanical and zoological gardens.

Contents 1 History 2 Administration 3 Faculties 4 Units 5 Halls of residence 6 Notable alumni 7 Notable faculty 8 Notes 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links

History

The origins of the University are in Yaba College, founded in 1932 in Yaba, Lagos as the first tertiary educational institute in Nigeria. Yaba College was transferred to Ibadan, becoming the University College of Ibadan, in 1948.^[3] The University was founded on its own site on 17 November 1948. The site of the University was leased to the colonial authorities by Ibadan native chiefs for 999 years.^[4] The first students began courses in January of that year. Arthur Creech Jones, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, inaugurated the new educational institution. The University was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London, then it was called the University College, Ibadan. Some of the original buildings were designed by the English modernist architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew.^[4] A 500-bed teaching hospital was added in 1957. The University of Ibadan became an independent university in 1962.

In late 1963, on the University playing fields, with the celebration marked by talking drums, the Rt. Hon. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, first Prime Minister of independent Nigeria, became the first Chancellor of its independent University. The first Nigerian vice chancellor of the university was Kenneth Dike, after whom University of Ibadan's library is named.

Administration

The current principal members of the University administration are:^[5]

People

Title	Position
Ebele Goodluck Jonathan	Visitor
Chief Wole Olanipekun	Pro-Chancellor & Chairman
Alhaji Ado Bayero	Chancellor
Isaac F. Adewole	Vice-Chancellor
Elijah Afolabi Bamgboye	Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration)
Idowu Olayinka	Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
Omotayo O. Ikotun	Registrar
Ibrahim O. Aponmade	Bursar
Benedict A. Oladele	Librarian

Faculties

In August 2011 Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'i, the Nigerian Minister of Education, announced that the University of Ibadan would host the Nigerian node of the Pan-African University, the Institute of Earth and Life Sciences.^[6]

Units

• The Registry
• The Bursary
• Careers Placement and Counselling Unit
• Foreign Students Unit
• The Sports Council
• The Library
• The Computing Centre
• The Press
• The Bookshop
• The Botanical Garden
• The Zoological Garden
• University Media Centre, which houses the campus radio station, DIAMOND 101.1 FM.
• The Abadina Media Resource Centre
• Advancement Centre
• The University Health Services
• Works and Maintenace
• Academic Planning
• Internal Audit

Halls of residence

The University is primarily residential with Halls of residence for both male & Female students. There is also provision for accommodation of post-graduate students, the halls are listed below:

• Tedder Hall ---- (Male, Undergraduate)
• Queen Elizabeth II Hall ---- (Female, Undergraduate)
• Mellanby Hall ---- (Male, Undergraduate)
• Sultan Bello Hall ---- (Male, Undergraduate)
• Kuti hall ----- (Male, Undergraduate)
• Queen Idia Hall ----- (Female, Undergraduate)
• Obafemi Awolowo Hall ----- (Mixed, Undergraduate & Postgraduate)
• Nnamdi Azikiwe Hall ----- (Male, Undergraduate)
• Independence Hall ----- (Male, Undergraduate)
• Tafawa Balewa Hall ----- (Mixed, Postgraduate)
• Alexander Brown Hall ----- (Mixed, clinical medical, dental & physiotherapy students)
• Abdulsalam Abubakar Hall ----- (Mixed, Postgraduate)

Notable alumni

• Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart^[7][8]
• Emeka Anyaoku, former Commonwealth Secretary-General^[9]
• J.P. Clark^[7][8][10]
• Amadi Ikwechegh^[11]
• Epaphras Denga Ndaitwah^[12]
• Christopher Okigbo^[7][8][13]
• Gamaliel Onosode^[14]
• Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature^[7][8]
• Grace Alele-Williams^[15]
• William Kumuyi, Founder and General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry^[16][17]
• Ken Saro-Wiwa^[18][19]
• Martin I Uhomoibhi^[20]
• Farida Mzamber Waziri^[21]
• Niyi Osundare^[22]
• Jacob Ade Ajayi^[23]
• Kole Omotosho^[24]
• Abiola Irele^[25]
• Elechi Amadi^[7][8]
• Stephen Adebanji Akintoye^[26]
• Dr Festus Oluseyi Oderanti (Researcher at Newcastle University Business School)

Notable faculty

• Wole Soyinka^[27]
• Jacob Ade Ajayi, currently Emeritus Professor of History^[28]
• Niyi Osundare^[29]
• Kenneth Mellanby (1908–1993), ecologist and entomologist, first Principal (1947–1953)^[30]
• Olumbe Bassir, founding member of Biochemistry and Microbiology departments^[31]

Notes

References

• Damtew Teferra et al. (2003). African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253341860. 
• Kenneth Mellanby (1958). The birth of Nigeria's university. Methuen. 
• Pierre L. Van den Berghe (1973). Power and Privilege at an African university. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9780870739675. 

Further reading

• Tekena Tamuno (1981). Ibadan Voices: Ibadan University in Transition. Ibadan University Press. ISBN 978-9781211096. 

External links

• Official webpage