President and Vice Chancellor
Meet the university President and Vice Chancellor
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Academic Qualifications
- Ph.D. Political Science, First Class (Bordeaux France, 1989)
- Ph.D. Coursework only in Social Policy & Social Research in Criminology, (Loma Linda,2004)
- M.Phil., African Political Studies, (Bordeaux France, 1985)
- M.A. Religion - Historical Theology, (Andrews USA, 1980)
- M.A. History, (Andrews, 1980)
- Diploma, French Language Studies, (Clermont Ferrand France, 1984) B.A. Comb. Hons., Business Admin. & History (Beirut Lebanon, 1978) Distinctions & Awards
- Prepared and processed Babcock University’s application and accreditation documents for the National Universities Commission's inaugural Standing Committee on Private Universities (SCOPU), 1994-1999;
- Served as Acting President (Vice Chancellor) of Babcock University at inception, recruited the first crop of academic & support staff, and admitted the first batch of 1,006 students into the university’s three Schools;
- Served as Babcock University President/Vice Chancellor between 2006-2015; rebranded the institution for world-class visibility and quality; grew enrolment to 12,000 students in eleven schools and two colleges on two campuses;
- Grew University balance sheet and assets base by over 5000%, providing campus hostel accommodation for 95% student enrolment and running the institution on a 102% self-balancing budget;
- Acted as Principal Investigator and Project Manager for the tripartite Comprehensive Structural and Manpower Audit of the Lagos State Government by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (OAU), Nigerian Institute for Social and Economic Research, Ibadan (NISER), and the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria, Badagry (ASCON), 1990-1991.
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Educational Excellence & Leadership Award (2016)
US State of Georgia Legislative Black Caucus / African Leadership Magazine -
Inaugural Emeritus President / Vice Chancellor (2015)
Babcock University Board of Trustees and Governing Council -
Master Marshal (2014)
Exam Ethics Marshall International, Abuja, Nigeria -
Africa's Best University Administrator (Personal Award) (2011)
All Africa Students' Union, Namibia Conference -
Africa's Best Private University (Institutional Award) (2011)
All Africa Students' Union, Namibia Conference -
25-Years Dedicated Service Award (2006)
West-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire -
Distinguished Merit 10th Anniversary (Founder's) Award (2005)
Babcock University High School, Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria -
Ministry Service Merit Award (2004)
Valley Fellowship Seventh-day Adventist Church, Rialto, CA, USA -
Merit Award for Outstanding Service (2004/2005)
Babcock University Students Association -
Royal Service Merit Plaque (2003)
Arole Oodua, Ooni of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria -
University Prime Orator (1999–2003)
Babcock University Administration, Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria -
Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation Citation (1st Class) (1989)
Université de Bordeaux I, France -
Doctoral Program Fellowship Award (1983–1989)
République Française, Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, France
LIFE MISSION
Inspirational Global Impact Driven by Sustainable Development for Africa through Sciences/Security, Technology/Engineering, Education/Vocational, Agribusiness/Environmen, and Medicine/Management (S.T.E.A.M).
DRIVING VISION
My overarching focus for the twenty-five year period between 1991-2015 was the actualization of a conceptual design, structural gestation and administrative nurturing of “Project Babcock” - Nigeria’s “flagship” private university - a disruptive millennial institutional innovation which, in 1999 radically transformed the Nigerian university system and higher education as a whole. The Babcock legacy was effectively the blueprint in governance structure, curriculum innovation and students services that succeeding private and even some State and new generation Federal universities in the country have stringently copied. That pioneering vision for the private university project with the licensing of Babcock with two other private universities in 1999, has within 21 years, transformed a single institution into a blossoming industry comprising 99 out of the nation’s 193 universities, more than Federally and State-owned universities combined. Likewise, the driving inspiration powering the post-Babcock vision for the twenty-five year period between 2015-2040, is to raise the achievement bar by harnessing invaluable lessons 1garnered from the success of a quarter century sustainable entrepreneurship of the nation’s sole self-financing university, to create within the next twenty-five years, the continent’s first futuristic entrepreneurial Healthcare City, built around a technological university. The five-dimensional overarching thrust of the Maranatha Institutes of Science & Technology (MiST) registered as a Limited by Guarantee corporation in 2018 thus, is not the STEM, but STEAM (Sciences, Technology/Engineering, Education, Agribusiness, and Medicine.
MARANATHA HEALTHCARE CITIES DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: The Maranatha Healthcare City concept is not just another development project dreamed into existence by a visionary genius in moments of solitude, but a strategic inspirational intervention in human community development, public health and disaster control. The unique full municipal development high yield Return on Investment (RoI) opportunity in Medical Tourism, is built around a world class Healthcare Hotel creative concept, funded by global investors delivering a long range high local impact. It is the indigenous creation of a highly profitable resource-generating Design, Build, and Transfer venture, collaterally promoting social health and wealth by reviving local community and state economies. This game-changer strategic project equally provides an instant stimulus for national development through reverse medical tourism and "brain gain", indispensable for quick recovery from the doldrums of economic recession. One central focus of the Industrial Park is the Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Industries, with accelerated installation of vaccine production laboratories and biomedical supplies to fill a market need and steady revenue base. This globalization-driven human development motif has been accentuated by the COVID-19 global pandemic from “Important” into the desperate category of “Immediate”. Or in the French tradition of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 “Les Trois Mousquetaires”, it is “All for One, One for All”.
With a conservative impact estimated at almost 60,000 new highend direct jobs, and another 120,000 multiplier effect jobs created in the Nigerian economy within the first five years of each host city beginning 2022. This is a pilot project which model intended for mimetic future expansion nationally and regionally in Africa. Like the Babcock “Institution-to-Industry” effect on the private university project since the promoters of Babcock were privileged to partner with the National Universities Commission pioneering the blueprint in 1999, the Healthcare Cities development is intended to stimulate snd drive the growth of an even more basic sector vital not only to the economy but especially to the quality and quantum of life expectancy in Nigeria in particular, and Africa as a continental member of the globalized world community. The Healthcare City design concept while non-discriminatory in investment or residence opportunities, was nevertheless inspired in mission by the cardinal universal NEWSTART therapeutic principles of wellbeing(Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunshine, Temperance, Air, Rest, and Trust in God. For sustainability Investment opportunities are packaged into seven main Municipal districts (Healthcare, Educational, Commercial, Hospitality, Agricultural, Industrial, Residential).MARANATHA INSTITUTES OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:
The Maranatha Institutes of Science and Technology (MiST) system is simply the institutional
sustainability arm of Africa EDUCare’s Maranatha Healthcare City, designed to bridge the
worsening deficit of Nigerian and African education and Healthcare driven by the four cardinal
principles Creativity, Integrity, Technology and Entrepreneurship. MiST is the anchor pillar
around which the Healthcare City is built for sustainability in community and global impact as
well as generational impact in perpetuity
WORK EXPERIENCE
AFRICA EDUCARE, Lagos, Nigeria
Chairman(2015 - present)
MARANATHA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Lagos, Nigeria
Executive Chancellor (2018 - present)
HILLSIDE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Okemesi, Ekiti, Nigeria
Managing Partner; Pro-Chancellor & Chairman, Governing Council,(2023 - 2024)TRISTATE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, Lagos, Nigeria
Director/Chief Operating Officer (2022 - 2024)
BABCOCK UNIVERSITY, Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria
President/Vice Chancellor, Babcock University (2006-2015)
Senate (Chairman, 1999, 2006-2015)
Administrative Committee (Chairman, 1999, 2006-2015)
Ways & Means Committee (Chairman, 1999, 2006-2015)
Babcock University Teaching Hospital (Chairman, 2010-2015)
Pioneer Acting Vice Chancellor, Babcock University (1999-2000)
Design and implementation of take-off academic and managementstructure, policies, processes and instruments of the nation's pioneer private university;
Recruitment of pioneering academic, administrative and technical staff for institutional take-off and setting up a productivity-based innovative employee compensation structure apart from the public system and the Church sufficiently modest to not alienate proprietor apprehension of Church missionary pay structure distortion, but attractive enough to engage credible midlife career professionals needed to run quality programs and accreditation;
Selecting, admitting and matriculating Nigeria's very first private university students into a strategic maiden mobilization of a fully residential tertiary institution;
Birthing a novel investment-driven institutional entrepreneurial sustainable development and business management model built on transparent accountability and creativity of autonomous renewable resource generation in perpetuity.
Senate (Chairman, 1999, 2006-2015)
Senior Vice President/Deputy Vice Chancellor, Babcock University (2000-2005)
University Development Committee (Chairman)
Academic Standards Committee (Chairman)
Staff Welfare & Disciplinary Committee (Chairman)
Senate Panel on Examinations Misconduct (Chairman)
LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY, Riverside, Ca:
Visiting Professor, Sabbatical WASC Accreditation Preparations, Office of the Provost (2003-2004)
ADVENTIST SEMINARY OF WEST AFRICA, Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria
Vice President, Academic Administration (1998-1999)
Secretary to the Administration (1995-1997)
Seminary Pastor (1991-1997)
BABCOCK STRATEGIC ACHIEVEMENT MILESTONES
ENTREPRENEURIAL AUTO-FINANCING INSTITUTIONAL MODEL DEVELOPMENT, 1999-2015
The unique pioneering business model developed for Babcock University from its 1999 inception is pace-setting in that it is an exclusive institutional model that runs a phenomenal growth in programs and infrastructural development on a hundred percent self financing strategy for its capital and recurrent expenditure. The inspiration behind the administration of Babcock University was purpose-built and mission-driven design for the effective installation of an efficiency-based operational system twinned with integrity, self sacrifice and total commitment in service. This passion for mission is intrinsically passed on to other stakeholders (parents, media, government, community, etc..) in employee recruitment, student admissions, business transactions, community and public relationships and project management. Unlike the general perception of ineffectiveness or indiscipline in the Nigerian higher educational industry, it is evident right from the gate, that the Babcock experience is like no other, and Babcock University works.
BENJAMIN S. CARSON COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, 2012
This vision-inspired institutional achievement goal of my administration even before its inception in 2006 ultimately translated to reality in January 2012 with the enrolment of the first thirty-seven students (14 Freshmen and 23 Sophomores). The successful goodwill enlistment of Johns Hopkins University-based world renown Pedriatic Neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., to mentor the institution broke several barriers to place its program so strongly with the Medical & Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) and other accrediting agencies in the nation, that it is set to graduate and induct first set of doctors December 2016. The uniqueness of the Babcock MBBS training program is its global track requirement that mandatorily exposes medical students to a minimum of clinical clerkship rotations in India, United States and Africa as part of its international career preparations.
BABCOCK UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL (BUTH), 2013:
214-bed University Teaching Hospital status complete with fully equipped requisite functions, departments and units (laboratories, ER, ORs, ambulances, etc..). The most competent and committed professionals were also recruited largely with global experience and exposure, with locals also equipped with mission-focused training to for high quality, best-practices service delivery to improve client patronage and brilliant performance in successive accreditations by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, as well as diverse professional regulator agencies. Material evidence of the gradual maturity of this healthcare facility is the 12-Specialty Medical Residency programs progressively introduced since 2014, including: Anesthesia; Cardiology; Public Health; Family Medicine; General Surgery; Internal Medicine; Laboratory Medicine; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Ophthalmology; Orthopaedics; Pediatrics; Radiology. There are currently almost a hundred residents already in training.
TRISTATE HEART & VASCULAR CENTER, BUTH, 2015:
Perhaps the most phenomenal of all development initiatives of my administration in terms of immediate and strategic longterm impact is the transatlantic healthcare partnership with the TriState Cardiovascular Associates and the Babcock University Teaching Hospital to establish the Heart & Vascular Center. This effectively currently makes Babcock Nigeria's only tertiary institution operating a fully equipped functional cardiac unit where open heart surgeries are routinely performed (95% success rate) as well as non-invasive cardiac catheterization procedure. The also operates its own high tech biomedical laboratory services and medical diagnostics.
PARENTS CONSULTATIVE FORUM (PCF) INITIATIVE , 1999:
The PCF was conceived and has been successfully operated since inception as an interactional tribune to consult with parents for feedback on the institutional performance on parental expectations, information dissemination on matters on mutual interest to stakeholders as well as a platform to generate parental mobilization for development assistance on critical students-oriented projects that make campus life more pleasant. To date, the PCF has fully funded and presented to the university a Central Waterworks, a 15,000-seater Sports Stadium, a 65-room 4-Star Guesthouse, as well as a multi-million Naira Endowment fund to fund bursary awards to students who lose their parent or sponsor anytime before graduation.
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS BUY-OVER/ BANK LOANS CONSOLIDATION,2014:
Build-Operate-Transfer development projects consisting students residential hostels, roads, teaching hospital, instructional facilities and staff accommodation worth over twenty billion Naira (N20 billion) were constructed in collaboration with development investors from industry and then bought over in a debt-consolidation deal for N11.7 billion with the United Bank for Africa (UBA) to give Babcock 9,500 bed spaces, the largest number of students accommodation for any Nigerian university campus, federal, state or private.
COLLEGE OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES (CPGS), 2009:
The Babcock University CPGS has in the shortest possible time established itself as a benchmark center of excellence in diverse fields of study and specializations - from Pure and Applied Sciences, to Biosciences, Languages and Communications, Medicine, Computer Sciences, History and the Arts, Business and Management Sciences as well as Political Science and Administration. The institutional reputation for excellence and programs credibility of the College has been validated and disseminated across the nation's ivory tower to other African countries through accreditation teams,external examiners, and more than five hundred quality alumni (of whom about 200 PhDs) in four years since the first graduation exercise in 2012.
BABCOCK INVESTMENTS GROUP (BIG), 2012:
The B.I.G with its numerous investment initiatives and industries was one multi-dimensional key factor in the Babcock University success story, an immense contribution to the resources needed to run the institution as well as its social harmony. Services vary from a world class shopping center, to an industrial bakery, table water factory, block-making and construction industry, horticulture and landscaping, etc.
BABCOCK UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS SYSTEM (BUSS), 2010:
Founded the Babcock University Schools system, a one-stop shop for quality basic educational services to cater for the needs of the generation-X child bearing age employees whose creativity, energy, passion and youth is needed to run the institution as a futuristic enterprise. Besides being a social service, this was also a highly profitable investment contributory to the overall success of the institution. Served as pioneer Board Chairman and engineered its national network strategic spread structured to host 50 high/basic schools across all states in its maturity.
ADMINISTRATIVE AUDIT & RESTRUCTURING, 2010:
A strategic milestone administrative restructuring of processes, projects and personnel required to reposition the institution as an efficient organization to achieve the best possible outcomes at the least possible cost