ALAYORMII: A Professor of Nigerian descent, Ilesanmi Adesida made history last month by becoming the first black Provost/Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the well-respected University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in the United States.






Born in Ondo State, Prof Adesida is a Nigerian engineer whose outstanding work in the field of Nanotechnology has received much acclaim in the scientific community.

He obtained his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently went on to develop a body of work in the processing of semiconductors and other materials at the nanometer-scale level.

After his studies, he worked in various capacities at what is now known as the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility and the School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He was also the head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria.

Commenting on his recently appointed role, Prof Adesida said: “I’m honoured and humbled to be selected as provost of this great campus. This is something I take very seriously. I know how to work very hard and I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and get the job done.”


Prof Adesida is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Vacuum Society, and the Optical Society of America. He is also the past-president of IEEE Electron Devices Society.

Congratulation sir, more grace to your elbow, I wish you more success in all your in devours congrate

This is the type of news we expect to be hearing in Nigeria. not boko haram and Ebola news.
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egbaguy: His father is IBO..............he was raised by his yoruba mother after his IBO father died during the BIAFRA war. Modification: i am wondering why people liked this!!!!!!

lol...they must find away to link him to ibo... We ibo ppl dnt like to be leftout in any gud tin dat happn in naija

congrats to him

doctorgold: Nigerians making waves. Congrats Prof. However, we need people like you back home to help this ailing country of ours.

not a country like ours whose government never sponsors researches. or do u thinks his achievement was a sudden abracadabra.!!!

Look at someone getting much deserved recognition, wealth and prestige just for his intelligence while all these agbayas are here in this country making name for themselves through corruption, wanton embezzlement of public funds, killings, tribalism and nepotism. They ought to bow their heads in shame.

We're Proud of You.

Congrats Sir. Encouraging News again

doctorgold: Nigerians making waves. Congrats Prof. However, we need people like you back home to help this ailing country of ours.

Prof Ndidi Okereke, Dr Okonjo Iweala, Bankole etc also came back to help this our ailing country of ours.

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And mind you Sahara Reporter last time I check their main objective was to expose corruption and mis administration of governments in West Africa and Africa, unfortunate Nigeria govt engaged in those activities far more than any country in WA and Africa as a whole.

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As lawyers, doctors, etc has areas of specialization so also journalism, SR specialized on corruption and ineffectiveness of govt focusing only on African. I av seen that over 85% of their reports are absolute truth while reminder were relative truth. Summary; all SR news has some iota of truth in them.

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