FUTA Appoints Prof. Ojo Olusegun As Provost for College of Health Sciences

The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) has appointed Prof. Olusegun Ojo as the Provost of its College of Health Sciences.

The FUTA Medical Programme, which had been in the founding brief of the University since 1981, was only activated in 2021 when the National University Commission approved it as the latest addition to the programmes at the 40-year-old institution.

Ojo has been a Professor of Pathology at the Obafemi Awolowo University College of Health Sciences, Ile Ife, since 2001 and a Consultant Histopathologist at the sister Teaching Hospital, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTHC), since 1990.

He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos in 1983 and subsequently undertook a Postgraduate Residency Training in Pathology, achieving the Fellowship of the Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College in Anatomical Pathology in 1989. He obtained the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 2021.

Since 1990, Prof. Ojo has maintained research and clinical interest in the Gastroenterology study of the diseases of the liver and the digestive tract and has been instrumental in establishing a collaborative network of researchers in this field in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa known as the Gastroenterological Society of Sub-Sharan Africa.

Also, he had been President of the Society for Gastroenterology in Nigeria (SOGHIN) and of the Africa Middle East Association of Gastroenterology (AMAGE), a subsidiary of the World Gastroenterology Organisation.

Professor Ojo is extensively published in Gastroenterology and Anatomical Pathology in international journals. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Tropical Pathology, the premier and foremost Journal of Pathology in Africa. He authored “Essential Pathology for Clinical Students in the Tropics,” a standard undergraduate to pathology text.

Currently, he is the Chairman of the Faculty of Pathology of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.

Prof Ojo brings his wide academic, education, and administrative experience as well as his long clinical service experience to this job, which is expected to include galvanizing the establishment of a FUTA Teaching Hospital in Akure, which remains the only state capital in the country without a tertiary hospital.