The Osun State Government has honoured the former Minister
of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, late Chief Bola James Ige by
naming the Osun State University (UNIOSUN) after him, reports ITRealms.
The State governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola who made this
known, named the state-owned university after Chief Ige, saying that this was
part of a sweeping renaming of all the tertiary institutions in the state which
was announced at the convocation ceremony of the university where oil magnate
and founder of the Rose of Sharon Foundation, Mrs, Folorunsho Alakija was
unveiled as the new Chancellor of the institution.
Other institutions renamed include the Osun State College of
Technology, Esa-Oke now Bisi Akande
College of Technology; Osun State Polytechnic Iree now, Sunday Afolabi
Polytechnic; College Of Education, Ila Orangun now Adeyemi Oyeduntan College of
Education and the College of Education Ilesa which will now be Lawrence Omole
College of Education.
Others are UNIOSUN College of Law, Ifetedo now Kayode Esho
College of Law; College of Social Sciences and Management Okuku, now
Olagunsoye College of Social Sciences, Okuku; College of Agriculture Ejigbo,
now Isiaka Adeleke College of Agriculture, Ejigbo; College of Education Ipetu
Ijesa, now Ezekiah Oluwasanmi College of Education and College of Humanities
and Culture, Ikire, now Eniola Atanda College of Humanities and Culture.
This was even as the new Chancellor, Alakija, described her
conferment as the Chancellor of UNIOSUN and the Award of Honorary Doctorate
Degree in Business administration as another glass ceiling broken by womanhood.
Aregbesola commended Dr. Alakija who with her investiture
becomes the first female Chancellor in any university in Nigeria for counting
the University worthy and accepting to serve as the Chancellor of the
university when she could have easily turned down top universities in Europe
and America with the same request.
He enjoined Dr. Alakija to join the state in the desire for
an institution that exists for the society and advancement of mankind, saying
most Nigerian universities are too withdrawn and unconcerned from the society
an its problems.
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Pix: late Chief Bola James Ige
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