By Felix Khanoba
The Governing Council of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) has approved the promotion of 218 staff members, including 30 academics elevated to professorial ranks.
The promotions to the professorial cadre were based on favourable external assessment reports of the candidates’ scholarly publications and were ratified at a meeting of the Senator Dr Olanrewaju Tejuoso-led Governing Council held on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 December 2025 at the Main Campus.
A statement issued on Tuesday and signed by the institution’s Acting Director, Information and University Relations, Dr Habib Yakoob, disclosed that the academic promotions comprised 14 staff members elevated to the rank of professor and 16 promoted to associate professor.
“In addition, 12 academic staff were promoted to Senior Lecturer, seven to Lecturer I, one to Lecturer Il, and one staff member was promoted to the rank of Senior Librarian.
“Similarly, the review of the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 promotion exercises for non-teaching staff indicates that one staff member was promoted to Level 15, 22 staff were promoted to various positions on Level 14, while 29 others advanced within the senior staff cadre. A further 115 non-teaching staff were promoted to Level 13 and below,” the statement said.
According to the statement, the professorial promotions cut across diverse fields such as poetry and psychoanalytic studies; directing and communication aesthetics; feminism and gender studies; philosophy; chemical engineering; civil engineering; applied chemistry; theoretical physics; internal medicine (neurology); dermatology; neurosurgery; gynaecology and obstetrics; and radiology.
Congratulating the beneficiaries, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Hakeem Babatunde Fawehinmi, described the exercise as evidence of the University’s dedication to merit, academic rigour and institutional growth.
He noted that the promotions, beyond rewarding past accomplishments, imposed renewed responsibilities on the recipients to deepen scholarship, mentor younger academics and enhance the University’s contribution to national development.
Professor Fawehinmi further assured that the University would sustain its emphasis on transparent processes, staff development and a research-driven academic culture aimed at strengthening its national and global standing.
“The University is now better positioned to pursue excellence and advance its goal of becoming a world-class institution. With the guidance of Council, management is determined to build an environment where merit is recognised promptly and where staff can thrive as we steadily position the University among leading institutions,” he added.
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