6 Famous Professors In Nigeria - List of Professors In Nigeria

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6 Famous Professors In Nigeria - List of Professors In Nigeria

Adebayo Adedeji is a Nigerian politician. He was Executive Secretary to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa from 1975 to 1978, and UN Under-Secretary-General from 1978 until 1991.

He is the founding Executive Director of the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies in 1991,a position he holds till date. He graduated from both London and Harvard Universities. At the age of 36 years, he had become a full fledged Professor at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).

In 1971, he was drafted into the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of General Yakubu Gowon as the Cabinet Minister responsible for the economic development and reconstruction of post-civil war Nigeria. He was the founder and pioneer Chairman of the Nigeria National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and the pére da la CEDEAO –– the father of ECOWAS –– which he established in May 1975 ––after over three years of arduous negotiations with sixteen governments and countries divided into Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone spheres of influence.

Ambrose Alli was the governor of the defunct Nigerian state of Bendel, from 1979 to 1983. He was the first civilian governor. He brought massive development to Bendel in different sectors, from the establishment of numerous post-primary schools and tertiary institutions, and massive construction of roads and housing.

Prior to his election as Governor, he was Professor of Morbid Anatomy in University of Benin. He was a lecturer at the University of Ibadan (1966–1969) and was senior lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1969–1974). From 1974 to 1979, Alli was Professor of Morbid Anatomy and head of the department of pathology at the University of Benin.

Ayodele Oluwatuminu Awojobi, also known by the nicknames “Dead Easy”, “The Akoka Giant”, and “Macbeth”, was a Nigerian academic, author, inventor, social crusader and activist. He was considered a scholarly genius by his teachers and peers alike.

He quickly advanced in his field to become the youngest professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1974. Earlier the same year.

He became the first African to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) in Mechanical Engineering at the then Imperial College of Science and Technology, London (now Imperial College London) – a degree only exceptionally and rarely awarded to a scholar under the age of 40.

His research papers, particularly in the field of vibration, are still cited by international research fellows in Engineering as lately as the year 2011, and are archived by such publishers as the Royal Society.

Professor Abraham Babalola Borishade was born in Usi- Ekiti on 7th day of March, 1946 into the Ebi Ilotin Family. He has been a Federal Minister in Nigeria four times, between 1999-2011. He is popularly known as an Electrical Engineer, a Teacher and a Political Strategist.

In 1975, Borishade was selected as a member of pioneering experts and proceeded to train at the Nuclear and Power Engineering Station in Texas, A & M University where he obtained a certificate in Nuclear Power Development. He further undertook training in the International Atomic Energy Agency Centre in Vienna in 1982.

Borishade who was a registered engineer and member of Institute of Electrical Engineers U.K, Nigerian Society of Engineers, American Nuclear Society, Science Association of Nigeria, became an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering O.A.U Ile- Ife in 1985.

He died on the 26 April 2017 after a brief illness. He was 71.

Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored. Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. After study in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London.

He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role in Nigeria’s political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain.

In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections.

In 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years.

Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart was considered his magnum opus, and is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by his parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies.

He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, and began writing stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos.

He gained worldwide attention for his novel, Things Fall Apart in the late 1950s; his later novels include No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987).

Achebe wrote his novels in English and defended the use of English, a “language of colonisers”, in African literature. In 1975, his lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” featured a famous criticism of Joseph Conrad as “a thoroughgoing racist”; it was later published in The Massachusetts Review amid some controversy.

From 2009 until his death, he served as David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.