A Professor of Chemistry, Olufemi Peters, has emerged as the newly elected Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria.

This is according to statement issued on Friday by NOUN Director of Media and Publicity, Ibrahim Sheme, which said 64-year-old Peters beat six other candidates in a keenly contested race at the nation’s Open and Distance Learning institution on Thursday, to emerge as the VC

He is to take over from the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, whose five-year single tenure elapses on February 10, 2021.

The newly elected VC, who is of Ogun state origin, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from University of Ibadan (1979), a Masters’ degree in Polymer Science and Technology from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, (1982) and a PhD in Degradation and Stabilisation in Polymers from Victoria Universirty of Manchester, UK (1988).

Peters is a member of the Chemical Society of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Society as well.