History

The Directorate of Corporate Affairs is a Unit under the Vice-Chancellor’s Office and the Public Relations arm of the University administration through whose activities the University has continued to maintain a robust media visibility. It is as old as the University itself, having been established few years after the inception of the University. It commenced operation as Information Unit of the Registry in 1978 under the headship of an Assistant Registrar, Mr. Ayanda Fajenyo. It was, however, moved to the Vice-Chancellor’s Office as a full-fledged Directorate during the Vice-Chancellorship of Prof. Shuaib Oba AbdulRaheem in 1999. The pioneer Head of the Directorate is Dr. Isiaka Aliagan, who was Deputy Director. He took over from late Mr. J.O. Orinya, who was acting when the then Principal Information Officer, Mr. Fajenyo, was transferred to the Postgraduate School as Secretary.

When Dr. Aliagan left in 2008, the headship mantle of the Directorate then fell on Dr. Mahfouz Adedimeji, who was pulled from the Department of English to become the Deputy Director and Head of the Directorate, which had just been upgraded from Information to Corporate Affairs with the upgrading of its functions to include the whole gamut of information and communication. Dr. Adedimeji returned to his primary assignment as an academic in May 2012 with the employment of Mr. Kunle Akogun, a consummate professional journalist and media manager to head the Directorate in the capacity of Deputy Director. Following the satisfactory performance of his duties, Mr. Akogun was promoted Director in 2018, thus becoming the first substantive Director in the history of the Directorate.