High expectations await new Unilorin VC

admission seeker should not be compromised but improved on," Adefalu said.

The new VC, Professor Abdulkareem, was born in 1954 at Oro in Kwara State. He attended Government Secondary School Ilorin for both his secondary and Higher School Certificate from 1968 to 1974 which he undertook with a Kwara State government scholarship.

He later got a Federal Government’s scholarship for his university education at the University of Detroit, Michigan, USA between 1975 and 1980 where he was awarded with MChE, BChE Chemical Engineering specialising in heterogeneous catalysis/reaction engineering.

He was awarded the USA national science foundation fellowship for his Ph.D in chemical engineering at the University of Louisville from 1985 to 1988 and also obtained engineering-intraining certificate of the state of Minnesota. He became a registered member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers in 2002 and COREN in 2004.

Professor Abdulkareem lectured at the Detroit Board of Education from August 1984 to August 1985 and was a graduate teacher assistant at the University of Louisville, Kentucky from 1985 to 1988.

He joined the services of Unilorin as a senior lecturer in 1996 and rose to become a professor in September, 2005.

He held many positions in the university including director of SIWES 2000-2008, head, university admission unit 2006-2009, dean student affairs, 2008-2010 and director, laboratoryto-product centre from September 2015 to date.

The new VC is expected to assume duty on October 16.