…as over N100M Teaching facilities are injected into 3 FUOYE depts
From Kehinde Adewole
Fortune smiled on the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina recently, as he got the assurance of the foremost traditional ruler in Yoruba land, his Imperial Majesty, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, on partnership with FUOYE on developmental programmes for the benefit of the institution.
This was just as over N100 million teaching facilities/equipment were injected into the institution’s departments of Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Electronics for effective and efficient learning.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the VC on Media Matters, Wole Balogun, made available on Monday to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, Prof. Fasina, accompanied by two distinguished personalities, Oye-Ekiti born Chief Ayeni Akintunde, Chairman/CEO, Yemkem International Limited, and Dr. Temi Leo Adegun, former Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), paid a Courtesy Visit to the Ooni of Ife at his palace in Ile-Ife to discuss possible areas of partnership for progress and development for FUOYE.
The statement reads in part: “Recently, Prof. A.S Fasina, and two distinguished personalities, Oye-Ekiti born Chief Ayeni Akintunde, Chairman/CEO, Yemkem International Limited, and Dr. Temi Leo Adegun, former Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), paid a Courtesy Visit to the Ooni of Ife at his palace in Ile-Ife, the primordial home of all Yorubas, to discuss possible areas of partnership for progress and development for FUOYE.
“The historic meeting turned out to be very fruitful as FUOYE VC and his team were able to get the royal blessings of his Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye on the proposal to ensure partnership and support for developmental programmes for our great Ivory Tower.
“An excited Ooni and father of the Yoruba people, assured the VC that he would support FUOYE in ensuring that more breakthrough is brought to the citadel of learning in the area of infrastructural projects and other development initiatives.”
” Speaking further about the visit to the Ooni, an erudite scholar and pionneer Head of Department of Mechatronics in FUOYE, Dr. Adefemi Adekunle said Ooni’s royal blessings came during the time the VC was making effort to visit key personalities in Nigeria to seek support for the University’s future growth and development,”, the statement concluded.
In another laudable development, some equipment worth over a hundred million Naira (N100 Million), were installed by experts into FUOYE’s departments of Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Electronics recently to ensure effective and efficient teaching and learning activities.
in an interview with VC’s S.A on Media Matters, Dr. Adekunle who is Deputy Dean, FUOYE School of Post Graduate Studies, said: “l was the Pioneer HOD of Mechatronics and since then we have been making committed efforts to ensure that we have relevant equipment through tetfund and other windows of opportunities and this yeilded positive results as we began to receive these equipment. We had the first Batch in 2017, second Batch on May 2, 2020, and third Batch in the first week of March this year.
” A major breakthrough was achieved which was that we had a team of experts, led by
Engr. Okolie from Skill G Tetfund, who came to install the equipment in these departments and even trained us who are staff in the departments.
“For us, the emergence of Prof. Fasina signalled more successful development for our great institution in general because this development happening now is significant. With the new development, we will be having more equipment to teach both the undergraduate and especially the Post graduate students.
“And also, with this new development, the visions by the VC to expand our Faculty by introducing more academic programmes, as contained in his inaugural speech of February 11, have been properly taken care of.
” This laudable development will also ensure an improvement on our webometric ranking as the world will now realize that FUOYE now has a State of the Art equipment in these departments.
” Let me also reveal that we have already been recording huge academic successes in this faculty. A proud example in this respect is an academic feat recently achieved by one of our brilliant students in Mechatronics department, Mr Samuel Adejumo, who designed a drone that can spray a farm plantation. He is a student l supervised and we are very proud of him. The Heads of Departments, Mechatronics Engineering, Engr. Dr. M. O. Arowolo, Mechanical Engineering, Engr. B. J. Olorunfemi Dept), andEletrical/Electronics Engineering, Prof. Olaitan. Akinsanmi respectively appreciate the VC for his support” Dr. Adekunle said.
