New VC for UNILORIN
The University management of Ilorin has appointed Sulyman Abdulkareem as its new Vice-Chancellor.
The university’s Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of council, Abdullahi Oyekan, announced the appointment on yesterday.
According to Mr. Oyekan, the institution reached the decision after a meeting of the council in accordance with the provisions of the Universities Amendment Act.
In the Same vein he added that, the appointment will take effect from October 16 2017 while the tenure of the outgoing vice chancellor, AbdulGaniyu Ambali, will end on October 15, 2017.
Mr. Abdulkareem, a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering is the institutions’s 10th Vice-chancellor.
He was once vice chancellor of the Alhikmah University, Ilorin.
He was born in 1954 at Oro, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara.
He schooled at the University of Detroit in 1980 where he earned a degree in Chemical Engineering and also at the University of Louisville, in 1988 where he earned a Ph.D in the same discipline.
He specialize in Heterogeneous Catalysis/Reaction Engineering.
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