UI get new vice chancellor

UI gets new deputy vice-chancellor
Professor Gbemisola Oke, of the Department of Periodontology
and Community Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, College of
Medicine, University of Ibadan (UI), has been elected the 7th
deputy vice-chancellor (Academic) of the institution.
This was contained in a statement by Mr Olatunji Oladejo, the
Director of Public Communication of the institution and made
available to newsmen on Sunday, in Lagos.
According to the statement, the new deputy vice-chancellor,
replaced Professor Idowu Olayinka, whose tenure ended on
December 16, 2014.
It stated that Oke, who, before the appointment was the
director, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of the
institution, had become the second female to occupy the
position.
The statement added that the first female to occupy the post
was Emeritus Professor Abiola Odejide of the Department of
Communication and Language Arts, who served from
November 8, 2004 to November 7, 2006.
It noted that the new DVC (Academic) graduated with a Bachelor
of Dental Surgery (BDS) in 1981 and bagged a Master of Public
Health (MPH) from University of California, Los Angeles in 1985.
Prof. Oke, the statement added, capped it up with a Ph.D degree
in Community Medicine/ Epidemiology from UI.