Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji on Thursday inaugurated the Governing Council of the state University.
He urged members to initiate policies and programmes aimed at raising the standard of the institution.
Former Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Akin Oyebode is the Chairman of the council and Pro-Chancellor.
Other members are the President, Architects Registration Council of Nigeria, Dipo Ajayi; Prof. Demola Omojola; Chief Bayo Awosemusi; Dr. Israel Ovirhi; Mrs. Foluso Olaniyan; Mrs. Bunmi Akingba; Mr. Rotimi Esho; Prof. C.O. Kolawole and Alhaji Abdusalam Babatunde.
Oyebanji also inaugurated the governing council of Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology and Ekiti State Teaching Hospital at the Conference Hall, Governor’s Office.
The governor congratulated members of the councils, saying they had the capacity to pilot the affairs of the institutions.
He lamented that the universities faced challenges that required innovative solutions, advising the councils to put in their best to move the institutions to greater heights.
Oyebanji also enjoined the councils to work with the institutions’ management and other stakeholders to forge a way forward on how to end academic instability, unpaid salaries as well as students’ restiveness, among other issues affecting the institutions’ growth and development.
On behalf of the council members, Oyebode said the governing council would restore the institution’s lost glory.
He said the council would formulate workable and strategic policies that would help drive its developmental agenda toward making the institution a world-class university.
