The brand new Vice-Chancellor of the College of Ibadan, Prof. Peter Olamakinde Olapegba, will likely be inaugurated on November 2, 2026, on the College’s well-known Trenchard Corridor, the place Emeritus Prof. Akin Akande will preside, whilst the outgoing VC, Prof. Okay.O. Adebowale, would be the leader host.
The inauguration lecture titled ‘The African College in a New International Order, The Crucial of Wisdom Sovereignty and Relevance’ could be delivered by way of Prof. Akin Ogundiran of Northwestern College, Everyton, Illinois, USA.
Till his appointment, Olapegba was once the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Management. His analysis has resulted in the improvement of culturally related and globally approved scales to measure constructs in social psychology, contributing to each theoretical foundations and sensible programs.
He has printed widely, with over 130 scholarly works, together with books, chapters, monographs, magazine articles, and artistic items. His paintings has addressed essential problems like HIV/AIDS, sexual behaviour, home violence, and high quality of existence, offering fashions for behavioural trade and attitudinal development.
The professor of Implemented Social Psychology is a fellow of the Nigerian Mental Affiliation, the Society for Peace Research and Observe, and the Centre for Peace and Battle Research.
In the meantime, Ilutitun Osoro Neighborhood in Ondo, the place Olapegba had a part of his early number one schooling, has despatched its felicitation and congratulations to the brand new VC. The paramount Ruler of the neighborhood, Oba Ernest Adeoye Idepefo, stated in a observation that the neighborhood was once thrilled that the then small boy who accompanied his father to the neighborhood as a trainer is now the brand new vice-chancellor of the distinguished College of Ibadan. He prayed for a a success tenure stuffed with landmark achievements for the brand new VC.