“UI leveraging its alumni, friends, and other well-wishers to achieve its core mandates.”
Oru Leonard
In the face of challenges of underfunding currently being faced by federal universities, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kayode O. Adebowale, has said that UI is leveraging its alumni, friends, and other well-wishers to generate extra funds to achieve its core mandates of teaching, research and community service.
Adebowale stated this when he received in audience an alumnus of the university and Deputy Managing Director of Providus Bank, Mr Kingsley Aigbokhaevbo, in his office.
In his welcome speech, he told Mr Aigbokhaevbo that the University Management had identified all the outstanding virtues in him adding that this was why he was being decorated as an Ambassador of the University.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the UI@75 Anniversary Committee and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration, Professor Peter O. Olapegba listed the thematic areas of need of the University. He disclosed the ambition of the present Vice-Chancellor to raise a sum of $200 Million to execute projects that would lift the University higher.
He said such projects include the upscaling of the University Endowment Fund, scholarships for students, improvement of infrastructure, provision of alternative clean energy, transformation of research innovations for national development and provision of funds for staff mobility and development.
The Deputy Managing Director of Providus Bank, Mr Kingsley Aigbokhaevbo, who spoke during his investiture as a UI@75 Ambassador in Ibadan, noted that he further imbibed the virtues of integrity, diligence, and discipline during his days as a student of the University of Ibadan.
He recalled that he came from a humble family where virtues were taught and had to rely on these virtues to survive while in the University.
He said he was highly committed to his studies, learnt to survive and to build relationships and did not indulge in vices.
He assured that he would continue to be a good Ambassador of the University.
Mr Aigbokhaevbo, thereafter, presented a symbolic cheque of Twenty Million Naira to the University on behalf of Providus Bank and promised to make an extra personal donation of Ten Million Naira.
Mr Kingsley Aigbokhaevbo obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ibadan in 1988.
Highlight of the event was decoration of Mr Aigbokhaevbo with the Ambassadorial sash as well as presented him with a plaque by the Registrar of the University, Mr Ganiyu O. Saliu
