The Vice-Chancellor University of Maiduguri, Professor Ibrahim A. Njodi has presented to the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba (Dr.) Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi the third, his appointment letter as the Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri. He made the presentation to the Oba at the Oba’s palace when he paid him a courtesy call in Oyo State today.

Accompanied by Principal Officers and other top management staff of the University, the Vice-Chancellor informed the Oba that the University of Maiduguri which took off in 1976 with just about three hundred students in three Faculties now has an enrolment of over forty thousand undergraduate, postgraduate and non-regular students.  Responding, Oba Adeyemi, thanked the Federal Government for finding him worthy of being Chancellor to the University of Maiduguri and assured that he will do everything possible within his powers to ensure that the University is globally recognized in all its fields of human endeavors.