AAUA TO HOLDS 9TH CONVOCATION CERMENONY WITH 20YEARS ANNIVERSARY
As AAUA Plan To Holds Her 9th Convocation And 20years Anniversary, from 29th of November to 6th of December, 2019. Being The Students Of the institutions this are the things you should known about the Varsity.
Firstly, Adekunle Ajasin University was first established as Obafemi Awolowo University in March 1982 by the government of the old Ondo State, headed by the late Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin . The immediately succeeding military government of Navy Commodore Michael Bamidele Otiko changed its name to Ondo State University in 1985. Its relocation to Akungba Akoko, in the new Ondo State became imperative in 1999, following the creation of a new state out of the old Ondo three years earlier in October 1996.
The bill backing the relocation was signed into law by the then Governor of the State, Chief Adebayo Adefarati , in November 1999, and that prompted the movement of a crop of workers from the old site in Ado-Ekiti to Akungba Akoko on 1 December 1999. The bill for yet another name change, this time to Adekunle Ajasin University, in order to immortalise the late Governor Ajasin, was signed into law by Governor Adefarati in 2004 following the demise of the former.
The amended and subsisting statute of the University was signed into law in November 2007 by yet another governor, the former Governor Olusegun Agagu. In these circumstances, it can rightly be said that while the history of AAUA started in 1982, its relocation on 5 November 1999 marked the beginning of the second phase of its history now in its present location, Akungba Akoko.
Adekunle Ajasin University, run undergraduate and post-graduate as well as Pre-degree, JUBEB programmes with seven faculties ranging from Science , Arts, Education, Law, Social Science and Management science|Management Sciences, Agricultural Sciences and the newly created one environmental and design
However, AAUA's Sports Complex, provides indoor and out-door sports such as table tennis, badminton, soccer, basketball, cricket, judo, track and field events that encourage staff and students to keep fit physically.
The University is headed by the Vice Chancellors which are assisted by two deputy Vice Chancellors, both academic and administration.
*This are the Names of the past Vice Chancellors of the institution till Date*
Prof. Akin Akindoyemi, January, 2000 to January, 2001
Prof. Funso Akere, 4 May 2002 to 30 April 2006
Prof. Dr Med. Philip Abiodun, 1 October 2006 to 18 January 2009
Prof. N.O. Mimiko , 4 January 2010 to 4 January 2015
Prof. Igbekele Amos Ajibefun, 6 January 2015 till date.
*© AKINWUMI OLAMIDE, A student Journalist from Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko. He is the Sports Editor of ECHO MEDIA NEWSPAPER (an campus newspaper, longest and only surviving in AAUA); CEO of Sky Media Consultant, A trainee Reporter at Radio AAUA 90 3FM, A freelance writer, An Activist; He can be reached via Akinwumiolamide09@gmail.com*
