UNESCO LAUREATE PROF AREMU CONGRATULATES PIONEER VC OF AHMAN PATEGI UNIVERSITY, PROF MAHFOUZ ADEDIMEJI
Oru Leonard
UNESCO Laureate Prof Sir Bashiru Aremu has congratulated his brother Prof Mahfouz Adedimeji as a pioneer VC of Ahman Pategi University, Kwara State in Nigeria.
Prof Aremu, who said this in the Inauguration ceremony of the new VC which by was attended by the university’s board of trustees chairman, Isah Mohammed, and the acting registrar, Mustapha Abdullahi, described the new Prof Adedimiji as a “renowned distinguished orator and one of the most promising son of Iwo Land ”.
The VC is a professor of Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, was until his appointment a lecturer and one of the most respected academic figures at the University of Ilorin.
The Pro- Chancellor and Chairman, Board of Council of the new university, Aliyu Pategi, presented an appointment letter to Prof Adedimeji on Tuesday at the university’s permanent site.
Prof Adedimeji, was until his appointment a lecturer and was regarded as one of the most respected academic figures at the University of Ilorin.
He holds a B.A. (Honours), M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language from the University of Ilorin. He studied Media and Communications at Governors State University, Illinois, USA.
He also received training in peace studies at Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA.
He is a former Director of the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies of the University of Ilorin and ex-member of the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association.
Prof Adedimeji is also a Fulbright scholar who holds a certificate of the Virtual Institute for Higher Education Pedagogy (VIHEP) of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Nigeria.
He is also a UNDP consultant, columnist and public speaker.
The UNESCO Laureate said that Prof Adedimeji, stated, “Prof Adedimeji is a great educator of 21st Century, very dynamic researcher, wonderful writer and administrato.
He is a foremost newspaper columnist and very brilliant academic, hardworking administrator and a stalwart researcher”.
Aremu also congratulated Ahman Pategi University Board of Trustees for discovering a good professor that possesses every good quality needed to succeed in his new task of assisting the new university to lay a healthy, strong and sustainable foundation, which will stand the test of time. He wished the pioneer Vice Chancellor of the new University very long life, good health, wisdom, prosperity and future success
Ahman Pategi University is one of the 20 new private universities recently approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. The institution is located in Patigi, Kwara State in Nigeria.
