This was contained in the university’s news bulletin issued on Tuesday, quoting the new Webometric rating by Cybermetric Lab of Spain, a world-renowned research council.
The publication stated that the council rated OAU higher on the ladder from number 14 to eight in Africa.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the council also confirmed the university’s academic excellence and intellectual supremacy, saying this was the first time that a Nigerian university would be so ranked consecutively.
“This is a development that academic analysts and management of universities in Africa have hailed as a monumental leap for educational advancement in Nigeria, ‘’ it stated.
Reacting, the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Bamitale Omole, attributed the giant strides recorded by his administration to unparalleled research output, administrative acumen as well as technical competence of the staff.
Omole added that only a focused leadership, the hallmark of his management team, could produce such a feat.
He commended the dedication to duty of all stakeholders in making sure that the ideas of the university founding fathers became a reality.
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I think they probably deserve to be the best in Nigeria presently because they've been very active & innovative recently; especially when you consider the academic decline in most Universities now.
ReplyDeleteIYALA MAN!!
ReplyDeleteI beg to dis- agree!!
What of those universities that "churns out" thousands of 1st klass should we say Victims??
I taught they are acclaimed to be the best as some said "beta soup na money kill am"
maybe the soup is not that good as claimed.
I guess you will have to Churn out say ten thousand 1st Klass victims before you might be eventually considered.
Good soup in deed.
kudos O. A .U !!!
O.A.U,U.I etc are tribalistics schs if u r not yoruba they frustrate u dis is wrong. And again u claim to be the best and 70% of ur students fail..... PLEASE!!!! What criteria is being used they should let us know.....
ReplyDeleteKudos to OAU but university of ibadan is better.
ReplyDeleteImagine Nigeria the giant of Africa. Kudos to OAU. What happened to UNN and others? The FG should be ashamed of this.
ReplyDeleteThe FG want Lecturers to work without pay. And infrastructure decay and collapse. In all the chaos, OAU came 8th in Africa. Kudos to OAU again.
Other Universities in Nigeria please grow up.
Best in what. pls what impact has the researches being conducted in the school has on Nigeria. How many research products in engineering, computeer sc, agric etc can they show case. Anyway Nigerians like accoladates and position, so let give them. next year or soonest another university in Nigeria will emerge as the best in Africa through abracadabra without any significant contribution to national or world developement.
ReplyDeleteRUBISH NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES!
ReplyDeleteI wonder what CRITERIA is used to RANK this UNIVERSITIES. As for me CONVENANT university shld be number, bcos they turned out almost 10% FIRST CLASS GRADUATES just few weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteMumu RANKING.
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ReplyDeleteOba Awon University ni jooor.A̶̲̥̅̊м̣̣̥̇ proud of u.Afrika most beautiful campus.
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