Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the University of Ilorin, Malam Abidu, has announced a new Vice-Chancellor for the institution.Malam Abidu Yazid, announced the development at a press briefing held at the permanent campus of the university in Ilorin on Thursday.
Egbewole, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , will take over from the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sulyman Age Abdulkareem, whose tenure ends October 15, 2022. The chairman said the University of Ilorin placed a nationwide advertorial for applicants and through its website and mounted a special search process through which the council reached out to not less 56 people in Universities and other institutions both at home and abroad, but only 29 applications were received.
Yazid, however, added that the shortlisted candidates had their applications processed for over a period of four days before the council decided to settle for Egbewole.