Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq CON, on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, named Professor Shaykh-Luqman Alade Jimoh as the substantive Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU).
A statement signed by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, AbdulRafiu Ajakaye, said the appointment followed the outcome of the screening exercise of the university’s governing council in which Professor Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh came first among the other candidates.
Professor Jimoh, until his appointment, was the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University, before which he was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University between 2020 and 2022.
The new Vice-Chancellor has many years of quality experience in teaching, research, administration, and community service, and comes highly recommended to the job as helmsman of a dynamic institution like Kwara State University.
His tenure as Acting Vice-Chancellor saw the University taking strides that have entrenched the name of the institution as a front line University in Nigeria and beyond.
Professor Jimoh is an international scholar of Islamic studies whose multidisciplinary contributions cut across medicine, psychology, economics, sociology, language, and politics.
He is a recipient of several academic honours such as being the Best Graduating Student of the Department of Religions in 1988 from the University of Ilorin; the University Undergraduate Scholarship Award (1987/1988); and University Scholar 1987/1988).
He is a Fellow/member of many professional bodies such as Chartered Institute of Public Diplomacy and Management and Council of Experts for International Centre on Contemporary Research in Islamic Sciences (United Kingdom).
With this appointment, Professor Shaykh-Luqman Alade Jimoh has become the 3rd substantive Vice-Chancellor of the Green University for Community Development and Entrepreneurship, Kwara State University.
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