UniAbuja promotes 34 lecturers to professorial rank

The Governing Council of the University of Abuja, now Yakubu Gowon University, chaired by Dr. Olanrewaju Tejuoso, has approved the promotion of 34 academic staff to professorial ranks.

This was contained in a statement by the Acting Director, Information and University Relations, Habib Yakoob, on Sunday in Abuja.

Yakoob said that 17 senior academics were elevated to the rank of Professor, while 17 others were promoted to the rank of Associate Professor across a wide range of disciplines and areas of specialisation.

He said that the promotions were ratified at the Regular Meeting of the Governing Council on July 10 and 11, 2026 following the consideration of favourable external assessment reports on the candidates’ scholarly publications.

He said that the promoted academics cut across fields like community medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering, religious studies, guidance and counselling, accounting, library and information science, business administration, and physics.

Others are parasitology and entomology, physiology, crop science, educational foundations, and banking and finance.

According to him, the promotions took effect from October 2025.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Hakeem Fawehinmi, while congratulating the newly promoted academics, said the promotions reflected the staff’s dedication to scholarship and academic excellence.

Fawehinmi said the university would continue to strengthen its internal processes to ensure the timely consideration of external assessment reports and the promotion of deserving academics in line with established guidelines.

He said: “These promotions are not just about attaining a higher rank. 

“They reflect our belief that hard work and dedication should be recognised and rewarded.

“I congratulate all those promoted and encourage them to see this as a call to even greater service to the university, their profession and society.”

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