21/05/2025
NEW DEANS WERE INAUGURATED TO PILOT THE AFFAIRS OF THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS IN THE COLLEGE
Do your job diligently with the fear of God: The Act. Provost tell New Deans.
The College of Education, Akwanga, on the 21st May, 2025, inaugurates the new Deans, who were elected on the 15th May, 2025.
By Salisu Yahaya Dantala
COEA Information & Protocol Unit
Deans are academic leaders with academic, programmatic, managerial, and fiscal responsibilities for a school/ faculty. They verify the adequacy of instruction, monitor academic integrity, confer degrees, and are responsible for student admission requirements for academic progress. They are responsible for the ethical conduct of research and for establishing and maintaining a culture of compliance and integrity among faculty, staff, and students. They provide local direction and resourpces for the education, training, and implementation of the federal, state, and local government regulations and sponsoring agency policies and procedures.
The system at the College of Education, Akwanga, is not new. In order to promote an efficient or benevolent working environment that stands to keep a credible record and to proffer a smooth working environment for both academic and nonacademic staff & student of the college, the position of Deans is a rotational, which runs consecutively for a three years, after which its declared open for election.
Delivering his address, the Dept. Provost of the College, Dr. Danladi Ibrahim, first, he appreciates the outgoing deans for their contribution during their period as Deans, when he said, “in everything we do, we cannot be 100%, there is always a gap, which can only be filled by God,”. He used the moment to commend the electoral committee for a job well done. “Remember to carry out your duties diligently with a fear of God”, Dr. Danladi tells the new deans. More so, he encouraged them to fill in the gap left behind by their predecessors.
Furthermore, he encouraged the co-lecturers of the various schools to give the news Deans the maximum support they might need to move the college to a greater height.
Finally, congratulating the new deans, he drew their attention to the oath of allegiance they took/read before the congregation, bearing in mind that God oversees everything, and we shall account for the oath we all took, he said. Therefore, He charged them to be up and doing in the discharge of the trust bestowed on them.
The registrar of the College, Mr. Ojikpa Yakubu Alem, who was the Chairman of the Electoral Committee, introduced the winner; he delivered the oath of allegiance to them, as they read after him.
The newly elected Deans and their respective schools are as follows:
• School of Education: Fatima Usman Agahu
• School of Sciences: Mr. Bob Luka Kpanji
• School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS): Suleiman Agahu Ibrahim
• School of Languages: Dr. John Saleh Aria
• School of VOC & Tech: Ahmadu Omame Oyigbenu
• School of ECCE/PED: Adejuma John Adeyemi
Speaking for the deans, Hajia Fatima Usman Agahu, Dean School of Education, who is the Dean of the Deans, pledged to pay attention to the college ethics, ensuring that the norms, values, good conduct, and teaching abilities of the graduating students meet the required standards.
© COEA Information & Protocol Unit
21st May, 2027
