Prof. Elijah Adebowale Ayolabi is the Vice Chancellor of Mountain Top University, Prayer City, Ogun State. He is an alumnus of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) where he obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree in Engineering Physics in 1989.
He later obtained both his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Geophysics from the University of Ibadan. A geophysicist, who has executed several environmental, engineering and exploration studies for reputable organisations, Ayolabi is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants and the Nigerian Mining and Geoscience Society .
We thank God that the Spirit of the Lord brood over this place and today there is no way anyone will enter here and not see that the Spirit of the Lord is actually at work because a lot of transformation has taken place between 2015 and now. As you can see, this is a growing university and expansion is almost on a daily basis.
We started with 15 programmes, which cut across two colleges – College of Basic and Applied Sciences, otherwise known as CBAS and the College of Humanities, Management and Social Sciences , which is about three in one college. It will be split with time as we grow. Similarly, our Geophysics Department is well established. There is hardly any university in Nigeria that can boast of the kind of facilities that we have in Geophysics. This has earned us international recognition and our students can compete favourably with anyone, anywhere in the world today.
In actual fact, years ago, we went for a competition and our students won N1 million on playing of musical instruments. This has been working well and has made our students to be peculiar and unique. We are unique in our approach to things and we are much delighted in practical approach to things and identifying the problems and providing solutions. This is one of our distinguished features.
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