Excitement as UNIPORT Announces Promotion of 65 New Professors

• University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Rivers state, has produced 65 new professors and associate professors
• 42 senior academics were promoted to the rank of professors and 23 others to associate professors
• According to the breakdown, the Faculty of Education produced the highest number of new professors - 10

Legit.ng journalist Adekunle Dada has over 5 years of experience covering basic and tertiary education in Nigeria and worldwide

Port Harcourt, Rivers state - No fewer than 42 senior academics have been promoted to the rank of professors and 23 others to associate professors in the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Rivers state.

The Public Relations Officer of the university, Dr Sam Kpenu, made this known in a statement in on Tuesday, December 12, The Punch reported.

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Kpenu said that the new professors passed through stringent selection criteria set up by the university.

“The promotions followed approval by the Minister of Education on December 8.

“The academics were promoted following the recommendations of the Central A & PC Academic meeting of UNIPORT held on November 23.

“The university hereby announces the promotion of 42 staff nominated as Professors of their various disciplines and 23 others as Associate Professors (Readers).”

According to The Nation, the statement revealed that the Faculty of Education produced 10 new professors

• The Faculty of Science produced 10
• The Faculty of Humanities got eight
• The College of Health Sciences got eight
• The Faculty of Agriculture got three
• The Faculty of Engineering produced one
• The Faculty of Social Science produced one
• The Faculty of Management Sciences got one new professor.

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While in the Associate Professor (Readers) category, the Faculty of Education got seven new readers

• The Faculty of Humanities got five Associate Professors
• The Faculty of Science got three.
• The Faculty of Engineering got two
• The faculty of Science got two
• The College of Health Sciences got two
• The faculty of Agriculture got one
• The faculty of Computing got one

UNIPORT lecturer uses fingerprint scanner to take class attendance

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that a UNIPORT lecturer went the extra mile to prevent cheating in the attendance register of his classes.

In a video posted on TikTok by Port Harcourt Icons, the lecturer was seen using a fingerprint machine to take records of those present in his class and prevent petty fraud.

The TikTok video shows the lecturer walking around the class and presenting the scanner to the students to thumbprint.

Nigerian university professor who works as a welder

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A Nigerian university professor, Kabir Ahmed Abu-Bilal, caught attention after it emerged that he is a welder.

The Kaduna-based professor said what he generated from the workshop in a month doubled his monthly salary as a professor, stressing that it is one of the beauties of handiwork.

The professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering said welding had been a passion for him and another way of using his God-given talents to be self-reliant.

Source: Legit.ng