The Federal University of Agriculture is set
to attain a conventional status in the coming days and the Management
of theFederal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta has expressed its
readiness to become its teaching hospital when the Univesity kicks off
its Medical program.
The Chief Medical Director of FMC, Abeokuta,
Dr. Dapo Sotiloye, recalled the history of the establishment of the
University College, which was initially meant to be sited in Abeokuta,
but was relocated to Ibadan. He said he received the proposal of FUNAAB
going conventional with joy, noting that with the personnel and
equipment of FMC; it was easy for the University to run a standard
Teaching Hospital, promising that “whatever is demanded of us within our
powers, we would not hesitate to do it”.
While welcoming the FMC team, the
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, said the University has had
the vision of going conventional for years, adding that merely going
conventional was not enough but having the capability to create better
access to higher education.
“Our vision is to contribute to the
development of our people and one of the various ways that we want to do
that is by ensuring that while agriculture remains the flagship of our
University, we go into other areas of life that would promote
development of our people”, Prof. Oyewole added. The University had
already received a letter of support from Royal Fathers in Egbaland,
adding that the Academic Planning Directorate of FUNAAB had also been
directed to ensure the effective take-off of the conventional programmes
to be run by University.
Present at the parley were Professor Waheed
Adekojo, FUNAAB’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Dr. Dolapo
Akisanya, Head, Clinical Services, FMC, Abeokuta.
The University is known for its high academic
standards and we hope its able to maintain and improve on this
standards when more courses are introduced.
We wish them goodluck!!!