Faces of Pioneer VCs of New Federal Varsities

Daily Independent

22 May 2011

Faces of Pioneer VCs of New Federal Varsities+++

Professor Mobolaji E. Aluko

Fed University, Otuoke, Bayelsa

He was born on April 2, 1955. He is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Howard University, Washington, DC, and was chair of its department, 1994-2002.

He graduated from University of Ife now Obafemi Awolowo University with a B.Sc degree in Chemical Engineering in 1976.

He also attended Imperial College, University of London; University of California, Santa Barbara; and State University of New York, Buffalo, for graduate and post-doctoral studies. He had sabbatical teaching and research stints at the University of Washington, Seattle (Materials Science Department); the University of Maryland (College Park; Chemical Engineering), and the University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, (Mechanical Engineering Department).

He is presently International Coordinator of the LEAD Program at the National Universities Commission (NUC) in Nigeria. The Linkage with Experts and Academics in the Diaspora (LEAD) programme of the National Universities commission (NUC) in Nigeria is designed as part of government's efforts at transforming the education sector through collaboration with Nigerians in the Diaspora. He is an activist and frequent commentator on Nigerian and African affairs.

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