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AJAYI CROWTHER UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES PIONEER PRO-CHANCELLOR, AYO BANJO AT 90

The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Dr Olutoyin Okeowo, has described Emeritus Prof Ayo Banjo, as a distinguished personality, whose towering eminence is celebrated widely across the globe. Prof Banjo, who clocks 90 today, served as the pioneer Pro-Chancellor and later, chairman of ACU Board of Trustees, succeeding Emeritus Prof Oladipo Akinkugbe. Before he became pioneer Pro-Chancellor of ACU, he served as chairman of the university implementation committee. In his birthday message to the professor of English, Okeowo said, ā€œAyo Banjo remains a great man of imposing height, having been able to touch many lives positively and having been very instrumental to nurturing and sustaining the lives of many universities and other socio-political institutions in and outside Nigeria.ā€ Okeowo stated that ACU would continue to benefit from the operational template laid by Banjo as well as benefaction he and other notable individuals who served ...