The Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU) Malete, Professor Muhammed Akanbi (SAN), is reportedly dead.
He was reported dead on Sunday night after a brief illness.
Details of what led to his death were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report as the Director of KWASU relations, Dr Saedt Aliyu did not respond to calls made to her phone number.
It was gathered that the late Vice Chancellor will be buried in Ilorin on Monday, November 21, 2022, in his country home according to Islamic rites.
Akanbi was a celebrated academic, law teacher, and legal icon who gained many fans at a young age and was very passionate about academic excellence and community development.
Akanbi joined the University of Ilorin in 1998 as Lecturer II and was appointed Professor of Law in the Department of Business Law in 2012.
An alumnus of the prestigious Kings College, University of London, United Kingdom, Akanbi sea rved as a legal assistant in the legal unit of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lagos State, during his national service year.
He boasted of over twenty years’ experience as an academic in the University of Ilorin, during which he also held several administrative positions.
Akanbi has over 60 national and international publications in reputable peer-reviewed journals, with a bias in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Law. His other research areas include conflict resolution laws and corporate management law and practice.
The university don was a member of the Technical Working Committee 2013 on “An Independent Review of Evidence of Gross Violation of the Rights to Participation in Government and Fair Trial through the Election Petition Process in Nigeria 2003 – 2011,” commissioned by National Human Right Commission, Abuja, OSIWA and the Ford Foundation.
He was also a Consultant/Member of the Technical Working Committee 2012 on research on the Legal framework on Citizenship and Religion as it affects National Integration in Nigeria commissioned by the International Development Law Organisation, Rome, Italy.
He also served as Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin Branch, between 2007 and 2009.
