General Manager/Regional Director (Western Zone), Zenith Bank, Mr. Tunji Olanipekun (standing) expressing his Bank’s gratitude to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwafemi Olaiya Balogun (1st right)

The University Management has approved Zenith Bank Plc., to be the second official banker of the University.
Management’s approval Bank was as a result of the Bank’s ability to satisfy the set criteria and its exclusion from the list of ailing banks.
Giving the approval, during the official visit of the bank’s management to the University,  the Vice Chancellor, Professor Oluwafemi Olaiya Balogun stated that the success of the bank depended on its mode of operation, noting that the financial sector had been corrupted by some individuals.
He stressed the importance of consistency, and sound Corporate Social Responsibility as factors needed for the success of any business organization and admonished the bank to work towards the overall development of the University.
Professor Balogun, however, pledged that the Bank would be given the necessary support by the Management, staff and students of the University.
Responding, the Regional Personnel Director of the Bank, Mr. Tunji Olanipekun expressed his organization’s gratitude for the approval, adding that efforts would be geared towards the realizations of the dreams of the University.
On Corporate Social Responsibility policy of his bank, Mr. Olanipekun promised of its readiness to build a 120-seater Female Hostel, which will be built concurrently with the new Branch Office.


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DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND TOXICOLOGY PDF Print E-mail

The Department of Environmental Management and Toxicology, being the first of its kind in Nigeria, was established in 1989 to provide skilled manpower, trained specifically for environmental surveillance, monitoring and management as against the present practice where these tasks were performed by people trained in basic and applied sciences.

The academic programme in the Department is designed to provide the training needed for an understanding of the environment and to build upon this foundation by exploring in some depths, specific aspects such as resource depletion, recycling, re-use and the impact of science and technology on the environment. The Department has trained about five hundred students to date. Many of the students are working in government establishments, industries and others have gone for their post graduate programmes.

 

The programme rank among the most sort-for in the University because of increased public awareness to environmental matters. There is also increased collaboration between the Department and environmental related agencies such as FEPA, OGEPA and other non-governmental organizations.

 

 

PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES

The philosophy of the programme is the training of personnel from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, to the highest academic standards in the identification and resolution of environmental issues.

 

The objectives are:

(a) To train well-equipped personnel to meet the challenge of the environment.

 

(b) To produce highest quality research and teaching.

 

(c) To give sound advice on environmental matters.

 

The programme is designed such that a graduate of the department will be well equipped to meet the challenges of the environment and it is hoped that such graduates will constitute the work force for the government

 

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