CITATION OF PROFESSOR ADEGBOYEGA ADEBAYO KARIM, fsi+, FCILT, FICCON, FIDMSS, FSPSP
PRO-CHANCELLOR AND CHAIRMAN, GOVERNING COUNCIL
UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA
Professor Adegboyega Adebayo Karim, fsi+, FCILT, FICCON, FIDMSS, FSPSP, is a distinguished scholar, achieved safety strategist, famend administrator, and revered public servant whose profession has been outlined by excellence, integrity, management, and repair to humanity.
Born on 11 June 1964, Professor Karim obtained his early training at Ereko Methodist Major Faculty, Awori Anglican Complete Excessive Faculty, Ipaja, and Authorities Faculty, Ketu-Epe, Lagos State. He thereafter attended the Federal Faculty of Arts and Science, Lagos, earlier than acquiring a Bachelor of Science (Training) diploma in Chemistry from the College of Lagos in 1986.
His ardour for data {and professional} improvement propelled him to pursue superior research, incomes a Grasp of Science diploma in Transport Research from Olabisi Onabanjo College, In the past-Iwoye; a Grasp of Arts diploma in Peace and Safety Research from the College of Ilorin; and a Physician of Philosophy (Ph.D.) diploma in Peace and Growth Research from the identical college, the place he emerged because the pioneer doctoral graduate of the programme.
Following his Nationwide Youth Service at Nkporo Complete Secondary Faculty in present-day Abia State, Professor Karim joined the Division of State Companies (DSS) in 1987 as a Cadet Officer and a member of the pioneer set of senior cadet officers of the Service. By diligence, skilled competence, loyalty, and exemplary management, he rose steadily by means of the ranks to realize the celebrated place of Assistant Director-Basic. Throughout his distinguished profession, he served in varied operational instructions, intelligence formations, coaching establishments, and strategic management positions, contributing considerably to the strengthening of Nigeria’s nationwide safety structure.
His educational {and professional} engagements have taken him throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia, the place he has participated in quite a few worldwide conferences, examine programmes, coverage dialogues, and strategic engagements on points regarding governance, financial improvement, migration, local weather change, synthetic intelligence, regional integration, and sustainable improvement.
A revered mental {and professional}, Professor Karim is a Fellow of the Nationwide Institute for Safety Research (fsi+), the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (FCILT), the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria (FICCON), the Institute of Catastrophe Administration and Security Science (FIDMSS), and the Society for Peace Research and Follow (FSPSP), amongst different skilled associations.
His excellent contributions to scholarship, safety administration, public service, and nationwide improvement have earned him quite a few honours, awards, commendations, and recognitions from skilled our bodies, educational establishments, authorities businesses, and neighborhood organizations.
Previous to his retirement from the Division of State Companies, Professor Karim served as Director of Analysis, Estimates and Library Companies and Head of the Postgraduate Faculty of the Nationwide Institute for Safety Research, Abuja. He at the moment serves as Dean of the African Faculty of Economics, Abuja, the place he continues to offer mental management and contribute to the event of future generations of students and coverage professionals.
Past his skilled accomplishments, Professor Karim is a loyal household man and neighborhood chief. He’s married to Professor Olayinka Ramota Karim, Vice-Chancellor of Fountain College, Osogbo, Osun State. Their union displays a shared dedication to scholarship, management, and repair. In recognition of his exemplary character, contributions to neighborhood improvement, and dedication to the development of his folks, he was conferred with the celebrated conventional title of Fiwasaye of Oyan Metropolis, Osun State, a distinction that displays the excessive regard wherein he’s held by his neighborhood and past.
Professor Adegboyega Adebayo Karim embodies the beliefs of scholarship, patriotism, visionary management, and selfless service. His wealth of expertise in academia, public administration, safety administration, and institutional management eminently qualifies him for the duty of offering strategic path as Professional-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the College of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Professor Adegboyega Adebayo Karim, fsi+, FCILT, FICCON, FIDMSS, FSPSP — an impressive scholar, distinguished safety knowledgeable, achieved administrator, and exemplary nation-builder.
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