OAU Rated As Best University In Nigeria

OBAFEMI Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, has been rated the first and
best university in Nigeria and 14th in Africa by the Webometric
Ranking of world universities.
In the last rating, the university was ranked eighth in Nigeria and 79
in Africa.
According to Webometric ranking released on February 6, 2013, OAU was
rated above other universities in the country for its intellectual,
academic, research and administrative supremacy.
A release by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Mr.
Abiodun Olarewaju, said this latest ranking reflected the success of
the current University Administration under Professor Bamitale Omole.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Omole pledged to do all within his
administrative power and academic experience to further reposition the
institution to meet with the standard expected of a world class
University within the context of 21st centuryintellectual market.
Meantime, staff of the OAU have been advised to set a new road map to
pursue research effort more vigorously with a view to continually
impacting positively on the socio-economic, political and
technological landscapes of the society.
Professor Omole gave the advice at a one-dayretreat organized by the
Staff Training and Development Unit of the Institution at Iloko-Ijesa,
Osun State.
In the keynote address titled: "Moving This Leviathan: New Paradigm,
New Strategies: 50 years of OAU and Beyond", the Vice-Chancellor
enjoined the participants notto dwell too much on the past
achievements but strive to break new grounds in research and
development.
Omole reminded the participants not to forget the best practices,
ethics and ethos as well as the institutional core values which made
the university "past scientific achievements possible and which had
made OAU a centre of Academic Excellence."
While expressing serious concern over administrative and academic
malpractices which have bedeviled the Nigerian University system, the
VC added that vices like admission racketeering, examination
malpractices, misuse of research grants, misallocation and
misappropriation of funds, intimate harassment, financial or material
inducement before services are rendered should be discouraged and
eradicated in the University.
According to him: "As an Institution, we should, at all times,
consider it an aberration to protect and defend our colleagues who
arefound in indecent behaviours and a variety ofcorrupt practices. We
should not allow the little foxes to spoil the vine.
Source:- Vanguard