The Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU), Prof. Mustapha Akanbi, is dead.
The KWASU Registrar, Mrs Kikelomo Salle, confirmed this in a statement issued in Ilorin on Sunday.
She claimed that after a lengthy illness, Akanbi passed away on Sunday.
"In this extremely challenging time, we ask that everyone keep his immediate and extended family, the University, and themselves in their prayers.
The burial plans will be revealed soon, according to Salle.
The late Hon. Justice Muhammed Mustapha Adebayo Ajao Akanbi and the late Hajia Munfaatu Aduke Akanbi were the parents of Prof. Akanbi.
ABOUT HIM
He is a native of Ilorin East, Kwara State, Nigeria's Ile magaji Kemberi, Awodi, and Gambari Quarters.
He attended schools in Kano, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, and Okigwe in Imo State, among other basic and secondary institutions around the nation. In 1993, Prof. Akanbi earned a Bachelor of Laws degree in the second class division from Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife.
Akanbi graduated with a second class upper division from the Nigerian Law School in Victoria Island, Lagos. In 1995, he was admitted to the bar.
Akanbi served the country as a legal assistant in the legal division of the Central Bank of Nigeria in Lagos throughout his service year from 1995 to 1996.
He worked as a junior attorney between March 1996 and March 1998 in the legal offices of Wole Bamgbala & Co. in Lagos, Olawoyin and Olawoyin in Lagos, and Ayodele, Gafar & Co. in Ilorin.
In 1998, Prof. Akanbi graduated with an LLM in law from the University of Lagos, Akoka. He studied between 2004 and 2006 at the esteemed Kings College, University of London, United Kingdom, earning his Ph.D. in law in a record-breaking 2 years.
Akanbi obtained a Graduate Certificate (Non-award Route) in Academic Practice (GCAP) from the same university throughout his doctoral study.
Akanbi began working at the University of Ilorin in August 1998 as a lecturer 2 in the school's college of law's Department of Business law. He advanced through the ranks via tenacity and diligence, and in October 2012, the Department of Business Law named him a Professor of Law.
He was also given a one-year appointment as an adjunct professor of law at Ghana's Kings University College in Accra in 2014.
Akanbi has held a number of administrative positions during his more than 20 years of employment at the University of Ilorin, the most notable of which were those of sub-dean of the faculty of law, head of the business law department, faculty of law, postgraduate representative, senate member, and dean of the faculty of law, as well as those of deputy director of the Centre for Research Development and In-House Training (CREDIT) and director of the School of Preliminary Studies, Fuf
With a focus on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Arbitration Law, Akanbi has published more than 60 articles on a national and international level in respectable peer-reviewed journals.
Laws governing dispute resolution and business management, both in theory and practice, are further research subjects. Akanbi completed a BADEA-UNITAR Online Course on Private Sector Development in 2017 with a focus on the ease of doing business in Africa, and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa and United Nations Institute for Training and Research both granted her a Certificate of Completion (BADEA-UNITAR).
Developing Interventions: Understanding Prosecutors' Routine and Pretrial Practices, Lead researcher (2016–2017), is only one of Akanbi's several cutting-edge and trans-disciplinary research projects and consulting engagements. The Open Society Justice Initiatives, New York, commissioned the study, which involved six nations—the United States, Mexico, South Africa, Ukraine, Poland, and Nigeria.
