By Alao Abiodun
The University of Ibadan has renamed the Senate chamber building after the second Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Late Prof. Adeoye Lambo.
This information was made known by the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Idowu Olayinka on Thursday where he disclosed that the council approved the request of naming the chamber after the foremost Vice-Chancellor.
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He said, “The council of the University of Ibadan has approved the recommendation of its joint council/senate committee on the naming streets and buildings to name the Senate chamber after the foremost psychiatrist”
The late Prof. Adeoye Lambo was a one-time former deputy general of the world health organization and the second Vice-Chancellor of the institution from 1968 – 1971. He is credited as the first western-trained psychiatrist in Nigeria and Africa.
Prof. Lambo died in March 2004 at the age of 80.
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