Winner of Crescent University Proprietor’s prize for the best behaved male graduating student at the 2009 convocation, Yusuf Abidemi Sopeyin has been promoted to the rank of Professor of Economics and Artificial Intelligence at the Omniversity Imperial College LCC, Missouri, USA.
Receiving the news, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ibraheem Gbajabiamila, expressed his congratulations on behalf of the Proprietor, Prince Mahruf Adesegun Ajibola SAN, Board of Trustees, Governing Council, Senate, Management, Staff, Students and Alumni Association to Professor Yusuf Abidemi Sopeyin.
He described the academic feat as the crystallisation of the vision and mission of the Founder, His Excellency Prince Bola Ajibola of blessed memory.
In his reaction, the Registrar, Barr. Zakariyya Ajibola recalled that Professor Sopeyin was among four beneficiaries of the Bola Ajibola Scholarship for Academic and Moral Excellence to Jordan, where he earlier did his Master’s degree.
Other beneficiaries are: Dr Izzudeen Adetunji (up to PhD), Daouda Jawara, a Liberian national who joined Crescent University from Oru and Ibrahim Olanrewaju, son of the Chief Imam of the Islamic Mission for Africa (IMA), respectively.
According to the former Head of Department of Economics, Prof. Rasaki Kareem, now Dean of Student Affairs, having a Crescent University product reach the climax of his academic career within two decades is a pride for the university.
He said the academic achievements of Prof. Sopeyin were deeply rooted in the foundation he had as an undergraduate at Crescent University, Abeokuta, adding that there are so many of them around the world.
Credit: Crescent University.
