I welcome you to the start of the 2025/2026 academic year in our dear Green University for Community Development and Entrepreneurship, Kwara State University, Malete! I especially welcome our returning students and congratulate the newly admitted students to our great University.
We have much to be grateful for and excited about as we begin a new session. We start this session with our Ilesha-Baruba campus coming live with staff and students fully residential in that idyllic community in Kwara North senatorial district. This brings to fruition the dream to see the 3 campuses of KWASU fully operational. Staff and students of the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine have been welcomed with pomp and pageantry into Ilesha-Baruba and we launch that campus with a new headship with the appointment of Professor Taibat Moji Yusuf as Dean of the Faculty and Head of Ilesha-Baruba Campus. We are confident that the good people of Ilesha-Baruba will ensure that the entire KWASU Community is fully integrated in their community, just as Malete did in 2009, and Osi did in 2024.
The upgrade of Kwara State University Teaching Hospital is complete, and KWASU’s third-year medical students have moved there for their clinical training. This is a significant landmark for us as an institution. Significantly, too, KWASU’s first and second sets of law graduates were called to the bar. This is a phenomenal achievement that we had long looked forward to as a university.
New infrastructural developments are underway as we work relentlessly to increase and improve infrastructure across our campuses. Of note is the 1 billion Naira TETFund Special Intervention project recently secured to complete the KWASU Library Annex. We have set up an ultramodern, fully functional smart classroom in each of our faculties, including Osi Campus, Ilesha-Baruba Campus, and KWASU College of Health Sciences. We equally begin this session with the newly completed 600-bed space hostel facilitated through Public- Private Partnership with Rangeman Construction Ltd. This advances our dream of housing more of our students on campus. We are not relenting on this mission. We will continue to seek more partnerships and collaborations that will grow our institution.
The result from the 2024 October/November round of accreditation shows another 100% success. Other programmes will be undergoing reaccreditation this year, and we will not spare any support to ensure we keep our record of successful reaccreditations.
Our mantra of being the Green University for Community Development and Entrepreneurship is also a motivating force. We continue to champion community service with donations of critical infrastructure to communities across the state, health advocacy and support, and importantly, strategic empowerment through skill transfer among others. This year, the KWASU Women Development Centre in Ilorin graduated twenty women skilled in modern tailoring techniques, digital marketing, and cap-making. They also received empowerment items such as sewing machines, android phones, and additional resources. Successful trainees from the other 3 centres will very soon join the growing number of success stories as their graduation is set for this month.
On our green initiative, KWASU successfully converted three government vehicles from gasoline to electric. The vehicles were handed over to the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Technology a few months ago, while more conversions are in different stages of completion. We are in partnership with the Presidential initiative on Compressed Natural Gas PiCNG. We have established 2 conversion centres in Malete and in Ilorin for vehicle conversion to CNG while we are set to receive CNG buses and tricycles from the PiCNG to improve our mass transit.
There is so much we have been able to achieve all because of the collective effort and dedication of our teaching and non-teaching staff and even our students.
As is our tradition, the Convocation Ceremony to graduate the 2024/2025 graduating set is billed to hold in the week of December 8 to 13, 2025. God willing, our University will again display her excellence in that outing.
As lectures begin across our 3 campuses, I urge both staff and students to dig in and make the best of what we have on offer. Lectures must hold as scheduled and students are to have access to both their lectures and lecturers. The University Calendar has been set and as usual, we will do all in our capacity to ensure a hitch free session as always.
Let me remind us all that KWASU is VERY intolerant to indiscipline. We have never hesitated to wield the big stick on anyone found wanting. That is our tradition, and we have no intention of changing it. This is why I urge that we all abide by the rules and regulations and display the best of character and learning that is the hallmark of KWASU!
On my part, I pledge to remain committed to the growth and development of our great University, but I can’t do it alone. I urge every member of this community to commit to protecting the image and integrity of KWASU.
Together, we will make KWASU greater. I look forward to seeing you all on campus.
Thank you, and God bless.
Professor Shaykh-Luqman Alade Jimoh fcipdm, fcpa
Vice-Chancellor
Monday, November 03, 2025
KWASU COMMENCES 2025/26 SESSION, ISSUES DIRECTIVES TO STUDENTS, STAFF
