Olufemi Peters Emerges New VC of Open University

A Professor of Chemistry, Olufemi Peters, has emerged the newly elected Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria.

This was disclosed in a statement released by the Director of Media and Publicity NOUN, Ibrahim Sheme on Friday. In the statement, Sheme said that Peters emerged victorious on Thursday, after beating six other candidates in a keenly contested race at the nation’s Open and Distance Learning institution.

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The 64-year-old is to take over from the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, whose five-year single tenure elapses on February 10, 2021.

Peters, who is a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of NOUN, has a track record of academic excellence spanning three decades, including many competencies in the area of ODL.

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The newly elected VC, who is an indigene of Ogun state, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from University of Ibadan (1979), a Masters’ degree in Polymer Science and Technology from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, (1982) and a PhD in Degradation and Stabilisation in Polymers from Victoria University of Manchester, UK (1988).

He is also a member of the Chemical Society of Nigeria and a Fellow of the same society.

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