According to PUNCH NEWS, An
international institute which ranks universities across the globe,
Cybermetrics Lab of Spain, has rated Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile-Ife, as the best university in Nigeria, for the fifth consecutive
time.
A statement
issued by the Public Relations Officer of OAU, Mr. Abiodun Olarewaju, on
Thursday, stated that the university ranking body rated the curricular,
research, academic and general administration of the university as the
best in Nigeria.
Olarewaju
stated that in the newest ranking, which was released on Monday, the
Universities of Lagos and Ilorin came 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Reacting
to the news, the Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Prof. Bamitale Omole, said
this was the first time in the history of higher education in Nigeria
where one university “would maintain its position the first and the best
in the country for more than four consecutive times.”
Omole
commended the ranking, while attributing the feat to years of the hard
work and dedication to duty of the academic, administrative and
technical staff “whose contributions have placed the university far and
above more than 100 other universities in Nigeria.”
The
statement read, “Prof. Omole emphasised his determination to make
training and retraining of staff, on a regular basis, his topmost
priority, adding that he would not rest on his oars until OAU becomes
the best in Africa and one of the top ten in the world.”
Omole called
on the Federal government to invest more funds into the university
education in the country in order to achieve more.
The
vice-chancellor also called on the alumni of the university to assist
the school in the overall development of the institution “so that the
OAU would grow more in leaps and bounds in the realisation of the dreams
of the founding fathers.”
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