Egbewole harps on comprehensive alumni database
By Abubakar Imam
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, has enjoined the UNILORIN Advancement Centre and other relevant units to ensure the development of a comprehensive database of all the alumni of the institution.
Prof. Egbewole gave this directive last Monday (March 23, 2026) while receiving the report of the institution’s Golden Anniversary Planning Committee in his office.
The Vice Chancellor, who is a renowned authority on Jurisprudence and International Law, explained that the University has produced many highly successful alumni who are doing very well, saying that there is the need to have access to each and everyone of them in order to catalyse the progress and greatness of the University.
Prof. Egbewole said that there is no office or agency he visited particularly in Abuja that he did not come across products of the University holding key positions.
He said that he was always impressed with the number and quality of men and women who not only delightfully introduced themselves to him as alumni of the Better by far University but also offered required support.
He added that many of them are, however, in the dark regarding the unfolding challenges facing the University as well as its prospects.
Prof. Egbewole, who is also the Secretary-General of the Association of West African Universities (AWAU), expressed conviction that when more of the alumni are eventually captured in the database their career progression would be easily followed by the University as they would also be easily mobilised for the advancement of the institution.
In a telephone chat with UNILORIN Bulletin on the issue, the Director of the University Advancement Centre, Prof. Waheed Babatunde Yahya, said that his office had been unrelenting with the mobilisation of the alumni and friends of the University for support.
He added that his Centre had been working on the development of the database.
While calling for the cooperation of the University Alumni Association and Heads of various Departments as well as other relevant units towards the success of the exercise, Prof. Yahya, who teaches at the Department of Statistics, described the database as an essential tool needed for the progress of the University.
Prof. Yahya, who equally chaired the Sub-Committee on Alumni Day of the Golden Anniversary of the University, assured all that the database of most, if not all the alumni of the University, would soon be made available.
