Sulyman Abdulkareem has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of University of Ilorin by the management of the Institution.
This was announced by the university’s Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of council, Abdullahi Oyekan. His appointment was announced on Monday the 28th day of August.
Mr. Oyekan said the institution reached the decision after a meeting of the council in accordance with the provisions of the Universities Amendment Act.
According to him, the appointment will take effect from October 16 while the tenure of the outgoing vice chancellor, AbdulGaniyu Ambali, will end on October 15.
Mr. Abdulkareem, a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering is the institutions’s 10th Vice-chancellor.
He was once vice chancellor of the Alhikmah University, Ilorin.
He was born in 1954 at Oro, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara.
He schooled at the University of Detroit in 1980 where he earned a degree in Chemical Engineering and also at the University of Louisville, in 1988 where he earned a Ph.D in the same discipline.
His area of specialization is Heterogeneous Catalysis/Reaction Engineering.
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