Unilorin Gets New Vice-Chancellor.
The management of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has appointed Professor Sulyman Abdulkareem of the Department of Chemical Engineering as its 10th vice-chancellor of the institution.
According to the university’s Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Dr. Abdullahi Oyekan, who made the announcement on Monday at a press briefing, said the institution reached the decision after a meeting of the council in accordance with the provisions of the Universities Amendment Act.
He said the appointment will take effect from October 16, while the tenure of the outgoing vice chancellor, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, will end on October 15.
The pro-chancellor recalled that interested applicants were earlier given six weeks to submit applications , adding that the deadline for this was May 26.
Prof. Abdulkareem was born on 21st January, 1954 at Oro in Kwara State. He attended the Government Secondary School, Ilorin for both his secondary school education and the Higher School Certificate from 1968 to 1974 which he undertook with a Kwara State Government Scholarship. He later got the Federal Government Scholarship for his university education at the University of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. between 1975 and 1980. At the end of the course, he came out in flying colours and was awarded the MChE, BChE (Chemical Engineering) specializing in Heterogeneous Catalysis/Reaction Engineering.
From 1985 to 1988, he was awarded the United States of America National Science Foundation Fellowship for his Ph.D programme in Chemical Engineering at the University of Louisville, USA. He also completed his Ph.D in flying colours and obtained the Engineer-In-Training Certificate of the State of Minnesota, USA in 1991. He became a registered Engineer of the Nigerian Society of Engineers in 2002 and a COREN Registered Engineer in 2004.
Professor Abdulkareem was a Lecturer, engaged by the Detroit Board of Education Detroit, Michigan, USA from August 1984 to August 1985; and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, from September 1985 to August 1988. He joined the services of the University of Ilorin as a Senior Lecturer in 1996 and rose to become a Professor in September 2005.
