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  The University has announced through the Chairman, 60th Anniversary Celebration Committee, Prof. Charles Ukeje that it will celebrate the university's 60th Anniversary. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife is one of three Universities established in Nigeria between 1961 and 1962 as a result of the report submitted to the Federal Government in September, 1960, by a Commission it appointed in April 1959 under the Chairmanship of Sir Eric Ashby, Master of Clare College, Cambridge, to survey the needs of post-secondary and higher education in Nigeria over the next twenty years. On 8th June, 1961 the Law providing for the establishment of the Provisional Council of the University was formally inaugurated under the Chairmanship of Chief Rotimi Williams. Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile-Ife The University started with five Faculties – Agriculture, Arts, Economics and Social studies (now Social Sciences), Law and Science. Six new Faculties were later added, namely the Faculty of Education ...

Following the university release requesting all faculties to hold elections for the position of Students' Union electoral commission and petition, the faculty of Social Science held its election on Friday, May 7th, 2021.  The highly controversial election or rather congress produced Efem Castro, a student of Sociology, and Fabio, a student of Psychology, as elected members of the electoral commission and electoral petition body respectively. The two winners will represent the faculty of Social Science as members of the electoral commission and petition - a body that will oversee the forthcoming Students' Union election and usher in elected members of the executive, legislative and Judiciary from the election.  Live observation of the election by ACJ correspondents showed that the election was widely politicized and marred with irregularities. Observation and information acquired revealed that the faculty does not formally have a students' body and a temporary one headed by ...