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7 unusual facts about University of Ibadan


Charles Thurstan Shaw

He began working with the University of Ibadan in 1960, where he later founded and developed its archeology department, which he led for more than 10 years before his retirement in 1974.

In 1960 Shaw joined the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he in 1963 became Research Professor of Archaeology and established the department, training talented archeologists, and leading it until his retirement in 1974.

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James Meredith

Meredith continued his education, focusing on political science, at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

Kenneth Mellanby

Mellanby was instrumental in founding Nigeria's first University, the University of Ibadan and was its first principal (1947–1953).

Samuel Dagogo-Jack

Dr. Dagogo-Jack earned a medical degree (MBBS) from the University of Ibadan Medical School in Nigeria, was a resident in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, University of Newcastle, UK, and was certified as a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1982.

Ulli Beier

In 1950 they both moved to Nigeria, where Ulli Beier had been hired at the University of Ibadan to teach Phonetics.


Arthur Okowa Ifeanyi

He attended Edo College, Benin City (1970-1976), then went on to the University of Ibadan where he studied Medicine and Surgery, graduating in 1981 with an MBBS degree.

Carl Joachim Classen

He attained the B. Litt. at the University of Oxford in 1956 and worked as a lecturer of classics at the University of Ibadan for three years.

Elechi Amadi

Born in 1934, in Aluu in the Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria, Elechi Amadi attended Government College, Umuahia (1948-1952), Survey School, Oyo (1953-1954), and the University of Ibadan (1955-1959), where he obtained a degree in Physics and Mathematics.

Frederick Valentine Atkinson

From 1948-1955 he was Full Professor in Mathematics (Chair, and Dean of Arts) at University College, Ibadan, in Nigeria.


see also

Errol Hill

He was a teaching fellow at the, 1958-66; University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (1965-67), and then an associate professor of drama at Richmond College of the City University of New York, 1967-68.

University of Agriculture, Abeokuta

The current Chancellor is His Royal Majesty, Obi (Prof.) Joseph Chike Edozien, the Asagba of Asaba in Delta State, a renowned and retired Professor of Medicine of the University of Ibadan.