Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has renamed the State University, Osogbo, after the late Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige.
This was part of a sweeping renaming of all the state’s tertiary institutions, which was announced at the university’s convocation.
Oil magnate and founder of the Rose of Sharon Foundation Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija was unveiled as the Chancellor.
Other institutions renamed were State College of Technology, Esa-Oke now Bisi Akande College of Technology; State Polytechnic Iree now Sunday Afolabi Polytechnic; College Of Education, Ila Orangun now Adeyemi Oyeduntan College of Education and the College of Education Ilesa now Lawrence Omole College of Education.
Others are UNIOSUN College of Law, Ifetedo now Kayode Esho College of Law;ý College of Social Sciences and Management Okuku now Olagunsoye College of Social Sciences; College of Agriculture Ejigbo now Isiaka Adeleke College of Agriculture; College of Education Ipetu Ijesa now Hezekiah Oluwasanmi College of Education and College of Humanities and Culture, Ikire now Eniola Atanda College of Humanities and Culture.
Alakija described her conferment and the Award of Honorary Doctorate Degree in Business Administration as another glass ceiling broken by womanhood.
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