NIGERIAN BECOMES FIRST BLACK VC OF UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

He is Prof. Ilesanmi Adesida, a United States of America-based Nigerian lecturer. He has been appointed the Provost/Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States of America making him the first black man to be appointed as the Vice Chancellor the University.

Born in 1949 at Ifon, a town in Ondo State, Adesida, a professor of Electronic Engineering with outstanding works in nanotechnology, was appointed by the search committee of the institution on May 31, this year but assumed the position on 15 August, 2012.

Adesida is a former Head of Department, Electrical Engineering, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Bauchi State. He was at ABTU between 1985 and 1987.