KWASU VC denies mid-semester break
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| Kwasu VC, Professor Na'allah |
The Vice-chancellor of the world class University KWASU, Professor Abdulrasheed Na'allah has denied the ongoing rumors in the University milieu about the mid-semester break which majority believe will begin from tomorrow February 15.
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| Late Professor Otokiti |
The
rumor however took another angle as some students believe its a normal school
mid-semester break. Though, the VC has said "That rumour is a lie. There
are lectures on all those days. No break whatsoever."
The
VC had ealier on announced the demise of the late Professor in an e-mail to the
University Community on Tuesday, December 27 but no holiday was declared.
Na’Allah’s announcement reads:
It is with a heavy heart that I announce the death of Prof. Sunday
Otokiti, Director, KWASU Consultancy Services and formerly HOD,
Department of Business and Entrepreneurship.
Prof. Otokiti joined KWASU as a full-time staff in 2014, after
serving on a KWASU committee to develop postgraduate studies in Business
Administration. He was among the topmost professors for our University.
His death is a serious loss to this young University.
I spoke to his daughter and son yesterday evening and I expect more information from them about burial arrangements.
KWASU has lost one of its most loyal, hardworking, brilliant,
dedicated, honest, and visionary professors. I pray to God Almighty to
console his family and all of us who have had opportunity to work
closely with him, especially his students who were always dearest to his
heart.
Prof. Otokiti developed for KWASU, along with Prof Nasar, HOD,
Accounting, Finance and Banking, the postgraduate program in Business
Studies thus ushering in postgraduate studies in KWASU. He founded in
KWASU the first ever Business Laboratory in any University in Nigeria.
He was a straight thinker and had so much love for our dear campus. He
led efforts to clean up the campus as Chair of a committee, and was
always involved in plans to make KWASU great. He was never tired when it
came to teaching and mentoring his students (undergraduate,
postgraduate, top-up, etc.), and it is doubtful there is any KWASU
professor today who taught more courses and met more students and
mentored more students than Prof. Otokiti! His death is a serious blow
to the teaming population of KWASU students who saw him as a father,
teacher and mentor.
Please join me in sending messages of condolence and heart-felt
sympathy to his family. His daughter is a member of academic staff of
KWASU in Business and Entrepreneurship.
I was about to draft a message yesterday (Monday, December 26) to
felicitate with staff and students on the Holidays, especially to send
best wishes for 2017, when I got the sad news.
My dear members of KWASU Community, let us continue to pray to God
Almighty to continue to support KWASU and ensure that this kind of
tragedy never again occurs. May God give all KWASU staff and students
long lives, prosperity and make 2017 and beyond great years of peace,
progress and continued achievements for every KWASU person and for our
University! Amin.
I hereby declare three days of mourning for the remembrance of our
distinguished Sunday Otokiti, and all flags on campus be put at
half-mast. Please use this period to pray for him and show solidarity
with his family.
Thank you all, and see you around.
I am hugely saddened – Chancellor
The Chancellor, Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Prof Ibrahim
Agboola Gambari, has condoled with the entire members of the University
Community over the demise of Prof Sunday Oyewole Otokiti.
“I am hugely saddened by the news of the demise of Professor Sunday
Otokiti, a senior member of our University Community, who served
meritoriously as Director of KWASU Consultancy Services and was also
former HOD of the Department of Business and Entrepreneurship,” Gambari
stated in an electronic message to the Vice-Chancellor, on Wednesday,
December 28, 2016.
He also condoled with the family and colleagues of the late Professor
of International Business and Entrepreneurship, praying God to grant
the deceased eternal rest.
His death, a sad blow – Registrar
The Registrar, Mr Surajudeen Oyebode, described Prof. Sunday
Otokiti’s death as a sad blow not only to his family, but also to the
KWASU family. “This astute, versatile and erudite scholar and a
gentleman will be sourly missed,” he stated.
He was a man with a coat of many colours – Awodun
In an electronic message to the Vice-Chancellor, the Executive
Chairman, Kwara State Internal Revenue Service, Dr Muritala Awodun, paid
tributes to the late scholar.
“Until I met this man with a coat of many colours and a world of
possibilities, I never believed nothing is impossible,” he said.
Awodun stated: “Before joining KWASU, he spent 14 years at Lagos
State University, Ojo from 1988 - 2002 where he rose from Lecturer II to
Associate Professor of International Business, 8 years at the Covenant
University, Ota where he was appointed Professor of International
Business and Entrepreneurship (2002 -2010), and was seconded to Landmark
University Omu-Aran where he spent 4 years as one of the founding
Professors and Director of the Enterprise Development Services and Head
of Department of Business. He joined the Kwara State University, Malete
in 2014 as the Head of Department of Business and Entrepreneurship for
two academic sessions (2014/2015 and 2015/2016). Until his demise he
remained a Professor in the Department of Business and Entrepreneurship.
“In his 28 years of academic stewardship, he produced a dozen of
Professors, two scores of PhDs, hundreds of M.Scs., about a thousand of
MBAs, and thousands of B.Scs.”
Meanwhile, members of the University Community have continued to pay
tributes to the late Professor of International Business and
Entrepreneurship.
