University of Ibadan
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The University of Ibadan is Nigeria's oldest university, and is located five miles (8 kilometres) from the centre of the major city of Ibadan in Western Nigeria. It has over 12,000 students.
The University was founded on its own site on the 17th of November 1948, although the first students had begun courses in January of that year. Arthur Creech Jones, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, inaugurated the new educational institution. The University was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London. Some of the original buildings were designed by the English modernist architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. A 500-bed teaching hospital was added in 1957. Ibadan became an independent university in 1962.
In late 1963, on the University playing fields, with the celebration marked by talking drums, the Rt. Hon. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, first Prime Minister of independent Nigeria, became the first Chancellor of its independent University.
Besides the College of Medicine, there are now ten other faculties: Arts, Science, Agriculture and Forestry, the Social Sciences, Education, Veterinary Medicine, Technology, Law, Public Health, and Dentistry.
The University has residential and sports facilities for Staff and Students on Campus, as well as a Botanical and a separate Zoological Garden.
University of Ibadan, (UI as it is fondly referred to) boasts of several eminent scholars worldwide including nobel prize award winner, Wole Soyinka, and it remains a major pioneer in the development of research south of the Sahara.
University Administration
The underlisted are some of the principal members of the University administration:
Mr Gamaliel Onosode ----- Pro-Chancellor
Professor femi Bamiro --- Vice-Chancellor
Professor Ayo Ogunkunle -- Deputy Vice-Chancellor(Administration)
Professor Odejide -- Deputy Vice Chancellor(Academics)
The University also has a Bursar, as well as the university Librarian.
Halls of residence
The University is primarily residential with Halls of residence for both male & Female students. There is also provision for accommodation of post-graduate students, the halls are listed below:
Tedder Hall ---- (Male, Undergraduate)
Queen Elizabeth Hall ---- (Female, Undergraduate)
Mellanby Hall ---- (Male, Undergraduate)
Sultan Bello Hall ---- (Male, Undergraduate)
Kuti hall ----- (Male, Undergraduate)
Queen Idia Hall ----- (Female, Undergraduate)
Obafemi Awolowo Hall ----- (Mixed, Undergraduate & Postgraduate)
Nnamdi Azikiwe Hall ----- (Male, Undergraduate)
Independence Hall ----- (Male, Undergraduate)
Tafawa Balewa Hall ----- (Mixed, Postgraduate)
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