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UI Renames Senate Chamber Building After Late Prof. Adeoye Lambo – The Institution’s Second VC

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October 25, 2019
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The University of Ibadan has renamed the Senate chamber building after the second Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Late Prof. Adeoye Lambo.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Idowu Olayinka made this known on Thursday where he disclosed that the council approved the request of naming the chamber after the foremost Vice-Chancellor.

He said, “The council of the University of Ibadan has approved the recommendation of its joint council/senate committee on the naming streets and buildings to name the Senate chamber after the foremost psychiatrist”

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Prof. Adeoye Lambo – the first western-trained psychiatrist in Nigeria and Africa.

Prof. Lambo was a one-time former deputy general of the World Health Organiation and the second Vice-Chancellor of the institution from 1968 – 1971.

He is credited as the first western-trained psychiatrist in Nigeria and Africa.

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He was born in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He attended the famous Baptist Boys’ High School, Abeokuta from 1935 to 1940.

He then proceeded to the University of Birmingham, where he studied medicine. To further his studies and become specialized, in 1952, he enrolled at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

He  became famous for his work in ethno-psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.

The first and only Nigerian to have risen so high in the World Health Organisation, where he served from 1971 till 1988, Professor Lambo flew his country’s flag so proudly.

His tenure is still remembered as one of the golden moments of the WHO.

Prof. Lambo died in March 2004 at the age of 80.

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