The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, has announced the death of the 9th Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof AbdulGaniyu Ambali, OON.

Prof Ambali, who headed the University from 2012 to 2017, died in the early hours of Saturday, 6 June 2026, after a brief illness. He was 68.

The death of Prof Ambali, according to the Vice-Chancellor, is a huge loss not only to the University of Ilorin and Kwara State University, Malete, where he currently serves as Pro-Chancellor, but also to the entire nation and humanity.

Prof Egbewole, who has sympathised with the family of the great scholar and the people of the Ilorin Emirate, enjoined sympathisers, particularly members of the UNILORIN community, to attend the Janazah for the late ex-Vice-Chancellor at his Oloje Housing Estate, Ilorin, by 4 p.m. today, Saturday, 6 June 2026.