Adekunle Ajasin University

The story of Ondo State University, now Adekunle Ajasin University, is more appropriately told in two phases. It was first established as Obafemi Awolowo University in March 1982 by the government of the old Ondo State, headed by the late Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin. The immediately succeeding military government of Navy Commodore Michael Bamidele Otiko changed its name to Ondo State University in 1985. Its relocation to Akungba Akoko in the new Ondo State became imperative in 1999, following the creation of a new State out of the old Ondo three years earlier in October 1996. The bill backing the relocation was signed into law by the then Governor of the State, Chief Adebayo Adefarati, in November 1999, and that prompted the movement of a crop of workers from the old site in Ado-Ekiti to Akungba Akoko on 1 December 1999. The bill for yet another name change, this time to Adekunle Ajasin University, in order to immortalise the late Governor Ajasin, was signed into law by Governor Adefarati in 2004 following the demise of the former. The amended and subsisting statute of the University was signed into law in November 2007 by yet another governor, the former Governor Olusegun Agagu. In these circumstances, it can rightly be said that while the history of AAUA started in 1982, its relocation on 5 November 1999 marked the beginning of the second phase of its history now in its present location, Akungba Akoko^[1]

Research

AAUA has a centre for Research and Development (CRD). Research is the main work of this Centre. Accordingly, the CRD was established to give prominence to needs-driven research for achieving sustainable development. It is also to serve as an incubator for both public and private sector initiatives. As a non-profit organization, it earmarks all the revenue generated through its activities for spending on research.

The disbursement of fellowship and research grants to distinguished Nigerian scholars has been in practice since 2005. Applications for the fellowship and research grants of the CRD are usually advertised in national newspapers and on the AAUA CRD page.

The grants are open to all Nigerians holding the M.Sc. or Ph.D regardless of age, place of birth, sex, or religion.

Notable Institution Members

• Nahzeem Olufemi Mimiko
• Olu Aboluwoye
• Yemi Akinseye George
• Sola Olorunfemi
• Francis Oyebade
• Adebowale Oluyemisi
• B.M. Akinnawonu
• Sunday A. Amuseghan]]
• Olubayo Oluduro]]
• Olumekun V Olugbemiga
• OLORUNFEMI Sola
• A.E Gbadamosi

Faculties in A.A.U.A

• Faculty of ART
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Agriculture
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Social Sciences

External links

• Adekunle Ajasin University - official site.

References