{"id":60710,"date":"2025-02-07T06:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60710"},"modified":"2025-02-07T06:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:01:50","slug":"tinubu-renames-overhauls-uniabuja-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/07\/tinubu-renames-overhauls-uniabuja-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Renames, Overhauls UniAbuja Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has renamed the University of Abuja as Yakubu Gowon University and implemented sweeping leadership changes across several federal universities.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, Presidential Adviser on Media, Bayo Onanuga, announced the dissolution of UniAbuja\u2019s governing council and the removal of Professor Aisha Sani Maikudi as Vice-Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Lar Patricia Manko has been appointed as Acting Vice-Chancellor for a six-month term but will not be eligible for the substantive position.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Lanre Tejuoso, previously Pro-Chancellor of the University of Agriculture, Makurdi, is now the Pro-Chancellor of Yakubu Gowon University.<\/p>\n<p>His former role will be filled by Senator Joy Emordi, who moves to Alvan Ikoku University of Education as Pro-Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>At the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), President Tinubu removed Professor Polycarp Emeka Chigbu as Acting Vice-Chancellor before his tenure&#8217;s expiration.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Oguejiofu T. Ujam will serve as Acting Vice-Chancellor for six months, also ineligible for the permanent role.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership changes at UNN also saw General Ike Nwachukwu reassigned as Pro-Chancellor of the University of Uyo, while Engineer Olubunmi Kayode Ojo takes over as Pro-Chancellor of UNN.<\/p>\n<p>Other key appointments include:<\/p>\n<p>Professor Zubairu Tajo Abdullahi as Pro-Chancellor of Federal University of Lokoja.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Sani Stores as Pro-Chancellor of Alvan Ikoku University of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Barrister Olugbenga Kukoyi as Pro-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu emphasized that these reforms reflect his administration\u2019s commitment to revitalizing Nigeria\u2019s higher education sector by strengthening governance, leadership, and academic excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has renamed the University of Abuja as Yakubu Gowon University and implemented sweeping leadership changes across several federal universities. In a statement on Thursday, Presidential Adviser on Media, Bayo Onanuga, announced the dissolution of UniAbuja\u2019s governing council and the removal of Professor Aisha Sani Maikudi as Vice-Chancellor. Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60712,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60710\/revisions\/60712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}