UNILORIN Council Chairman's death confounding, unbelievable --- Egbewole, VC-designate

Date: 2022-09-30

The Vice Chancellor-designate of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, has expressed shock over the sudden death of the Un8versity's Pro-Chancellor and Governing Council Chairman, Mallam Abidu Yazid, saying, “Thw news was confounding, confusing and totally unbelievable”.

In a statement made available to newsmen on Friday, Prof. Egbewole dislosed that his shock stemmed from the fact that only a day to Mallam Yazid's demise, they had a prolonged phone chart in which they “discussed extensively on the need to organise a befitting valedictory programme in honour of the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sulyman Age Abdulkareem”.

The Vice Chancellor-designate, whose appointment was announced by the late Mallam Yazid on September 8, 2022, said, “The late Chairman graciously approved my proposal”, which, he described as “another act of the Chairman's magnanimity” but which, regrettably, he would no longer be around to consummate “as the will of Allah has been done in this case”.

Prof. Egbewole, who is also a member of the Governing Council, said, “I have had the very rare opportunity of sitting in Council with the late Chairman and wish to put on record the way he conducted proceedings depicting extreme candour, courage of conviction and always putting the University of Ilorin first".

He said that the late Mallam Yazid was "a thoroughbred administrator, astute manager of human and material resources, and a firm believer in Almighty Allah. He was incorruptible, highly detribalised and a great thinker”.

The Vice Chancellor-designate pointed out that for all the times he interacted with the late Mallam Yazid on the floor of Council, “he remained focused, determined and highly committed to the assignment”.

Prof. Egbewole recalled that during the visit of the Governing Council to the Governor of Katsina State in September last year, Governor Aminu Masari “described the late Governing Council Chairman in flowery terms and counted University of Ilorin extremely lucky to have him”.

The Vice Chancellor-designate said, “As painful as the demise is, we are consoled that the late Mallam Yazid used the opportunity to serve Allah, his creator, and he discharged the assignment as part of his divine worship ('ibadah).

“May Allah be pleased with him, forgive his shortcomings and grant him Aljanah Firdaus. May Allah comfort the family and grant them the fortitude to bear this great and irreparable loss”.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Yakub Ali-Agan     Abdulkarim Adisa     Dairo Kunle Paul     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Zulu Gambari     Rueben Parejo     Oko Erin     Olomu     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Adamu Atta     NSCIA     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Kola Adesina     Aminat Ahmed     Bankole Omisore     Firdaos Amasa     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Bature Bello     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Hamid Bobboyi     Sulaiman Gado     Babs Iwarere     Lukman Adeloyin     Oni Adebayo     Ilorin Airport     Saad Belgore     GRA     Razak Atunwa     2017 Budget     Seed Technologies     Rotimi Oyedepo     IESA     IPSAS     Tsado Manman     Abdulazeez Uthman     Labour Party     Bayo Ojo     Alfa Belgore     Curfew     Council Of The Wise     Adebara     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Ayo Opadokun     Awwal Jawondo     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Umar Danladi Shero     Radio Kwara     Olaosebikan     Amos Sayo     VADA     Sobi FM     Isiaka Yusuf     Harmony Holdings     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Justina Oha     Muhammad Yahya     Solomon Edoja     Donatus Ejidike     Hassan Taiye Salam     Gani Saadu     Twitter     Lanre Badmas     Orire     Lola Ashiru     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Musa Alhassan Buge     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Read With Me     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Folaranmi Aro     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Saraki    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Universal Basic Education Commission     IPSAS     Halimah Perogi     Kwara State Television     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Makama Of Ilorin     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Maigida Soludero Transit     Omoniyi Ayinla     Gurei     Isiaka Yusuf     CCEPE     Abdulazeez Uthman     Cornelius Adebayo     Kale Belgore     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Ibrahim Labaika     Abraysports FC     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Isapa     Afonja Descendants Union     Medview Airlines     Babs Iwarere     Park     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Jelili Yusuf     Iyabo Adewuyi     Bature Bello     Amos Justus Sayo     Kunle Suleiman     Elerinjare     Sulyman Buhari     KWAFFA     Gaa Olobi     Garba Ado Sanni     Mohammed Saidu     Babaita     Elese Of Igbaja     Gobirawa     Kanu Agabi     KW-GIS     Niyi Ogundiran     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Yusuf Badmus     Hakeem Idris     Sanusi Abubakar     Wahab Agbaje     Ibrahim Jawondo     UNILORIN Alumni     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Makama Of Kaiama     Abubakar Baba     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Radio Kwara     Ahmed Alhasssan     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Saka Adeyemo     Shehu Jimoh     Akanbi-Oke     High Court     Ojuekun     Olatunji Bamgbola     Folaranmi Aro     Chief Of Staff     Okin Group     Olosi Of Osi     Salihu S. Yaru     Toyin Falola     Lithium Deposit     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Just Event Online     Osuwa     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Sulaiman Gado