Simeon Bamire a professor of Agricultural Economics was on Tuesday inaugurated as the 12th Vice Chancellor (VC) of the Obafemi Awolowo University ,Ile-Ife, Osun State.
Bamire took over the realm of affairs from Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, who has already completed his five-year tenure as OAU VC.
In his acceptance speech, the new VC Bamire promised to build on the achievements of his predecessor and build new ones.
He appealed to various unions in the University to cooperate and work with him so as to develop more the institution. Bamire promised to introduce more philanthropists, private sector operators and governmental agencies to further develop the citadel of learning.
He said, “There are so many things my predecessor has done, but there is always a room for improvement and incidentally, the rooms are so large this time around because of the inadequacy of funds, but by God’s grace, we are going to enhance our internally generated revenue in such a way that we will support government’s funding opportunities.
“We have land resources here and we will be able to make use of the land resources to enhance and promote a lot of things aside from generating income. It will be a knowledge base for our students.
“I am a man of peace and I find it very difficult to move ahead if there is disunity anywhere. That is why I am appealing to our unions that are not in good shape to come together, so that we will be able to work as one because a house divided against itself cannot stand