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Welcome to the official website of the Office of the Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

The Office of the Vice-Chancellor serves as the administrative heartbeat of the University, providing visionary leadership that promotes academic excellence, impactful research, innovation, strategic partnerships, and efficient service delivery.

This platform provides members of the University community, alumni, partners, government agencies, and the general public with timely information on policies, administrative activities, institutional achievements, and major developments within the University.

Our commitment is to uphold transparency, accountability, inclusiveness, and excellence in everything we do.

About the Office

The current University Administration is poised towards repositioning the University for greater impact on its core mandate of teaching, research and service delivery. This is guided by fairness, inclusiveness and powered by innovation through the use of ICT and data. This is in tandem with the vision and mission of the University as a top-rated academic institution renowned for cutting-edge research, global level of innovations and strategic partnerships at national, regional and international levels.

For inclusiveness and transparency, this platform will provide information from Administration to the entire university community on major developmental strides and strategies of the University on a weekly basis. Stakeholders including staff, students and alumni are encouraged to give feedback on issues highlighted/ presented every week.  The highlights of the major activities of the University Administration will be featured on OAU Website and social media platforms. It is hoped that this administrative initiative will further promote openness and transparency in the university administration. In this maiden edition of the “From the Vice-Chancellor’s Office” we wish to inform the university community as follows: