OPINION: Meritorious Mahfouz, An astute Administrator and Academic. By Folorunso Fatai

Date: 2021-02-24

It was around 12:57 a.m, today, Wednesday February 24, 2021, when I received the good news that a unique UNILORITE and illustrious son of Iwo, Prof. Adedimeji Mahfouz Adebola had emerged the Pioneer Vice-Chancellor of the newly established Ahman Pategi University, Patigi, Kwara State.

Everyone who knows Prof. Mahfouz knows him for the commitment, diligence and excellence he would always bring into whatever he does. Consequently, when the delightful news item surfaced, my first impulse was to congratulate the university on its fortune of having such a prolific and prodigious professor at the helms of its affairs, with — his attitude of excellence-every promise of taking the institution to its altitude.

Significantly, there are a number of traits of character which appear to define Adedimeji Adebola. Anyone who has had any dealings with him will be awed and captivated by his startling level of academic richness, selflessness and integrity. He is a stickler for principles and has the courage to stick to his convictions.

Without being fulsome, here, Prof. Adedimeji is a man of restless questing spirit, razor-blade intellect and fastidious principle. To paraphrase Rosalyn Carter, Prof. Adedimeji is not just a leader who takes people to where they want to go, he is a great leader who takes people to where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

The choice of Prof. Adedimeji as the pioneer Vice-Chancellor of Ahman Pategi University must have been inspired by God as a round peg in a round hole. Hence, appointing him to pilot the affairs of the school is like asking a 5-star, battle- tested general to quell a fight between two boys on a street in Mushin! Importantly, as a fine scholar who had effortlessly married the gown to the town, I have the conviction that he would use his vast networks within and outside his academic circles to bring traction to the infant University and it would soon become a magnet attracting the biggest names in many disciplines to the school.

As Adedimeji is set to begin his journey with Ahman Pategi University, I am cocksure he would reach for the accelerator and put the University at full throttle— just as he did at the Coporate Affairs Unit of the University of Ilorin, Centre For Peace and Strategic Studies UNILORIN amongst other places where his gigantic strides have been indelibly imprinted on the sand of time. He is an astute administrator and academic.

On the whole, I congratulate Ahman Pategi University for having our meritorious Mahfouz, an academic of a robust stature, as its pioneer Vice Chancellor. May everything good fall in place for both the university and its staffers.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Olaitan Adefila     Demola Banu     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Baba Issa Awoye     Maimunat Oniyangi     Tuesday Assayomo     Shoprite     Kayode Yusuf     Kola Olota     Kaosarah Adeyi     Okin High School     Ekweremadu     Isiaka Danmeromu     Yoonus Lawal     Saka Abimbola Isau     Olokoba     Sanusi Abubakar     Matthew Babaoye     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Cassava Growers\' Association     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     HICA     Titus Ashaolu     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Oko-Olowo     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Iqra Books     Razaq Atunwa     Lateef Alagbonsi     Kwara Polytechnic     Saliu Oluwole     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Mogaji Aare     Abdulwahab Ololele     Olokoba Sulyman     Ojuekun     TVC Female National Debate     Jebba     Kola Adesina     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Assayomo     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Gabriel Fashanu     Facebook     New Model Police Station     Adegoke Bamidele     Kisira     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     JMK Construction Company Limited     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Mansur Alfanla     Lai Gobir     Tsaragi-Share     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Hausa     Ben Duntoye     National Information Technology Development Agency     Nurudeen Mohammed     Gambari     Turaki     Apaola     Haliru Dantoro     Moses Adekanye     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Share/Tsaragi     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Adijat Adebiyi     Charles Ibitoye     IYA YUSUF     Iponrin    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Smart School     Olatunde Jare     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Umaru Saro     Arca Santa     General Hospital     Haleeman Salman     Post-utme     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     V.O. Abioye     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Awwal Jawondo     Shonga     Dairo Kunle Paul     Sadiq Buhari     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Sulaiman Gado     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Shuaibu Yaman     Ben Duntoye     Eruku     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Olaiya Lawal     Popo-Igbonna     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Mike Omotosho     Plat Technologies Limited     Sarakite     Rex Olawoye     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Naira Redesign     Oloye     Principal Private Secretary     Pakata Development Association     Rapheal Ashaolu     Royal FM     Aisha Buhari     George Funsho Adebayo     Shehu Jimoh     Alaro     Ayobami Seriki     Ademola Kiyesola     Raimi Iyanda     Omupo     KWASSIP     Abdullahi Biffo     Danhawa     N-Power     James Kolo     Ahman Pategi University     Ajibike Katibi     Isin     Amule     Roseline Oni Aremu     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Sa\'adu Salau     Third Estate     Sanitation Exercise     Yetunde Balogun     Alagbado     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Fatai Olodo     Atiku     Olam Food Ingredients     Dele Belgore     Isa Aremu     New Naira Notes     Yomi Ogunsola     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Riskat Opakunle