UniAbuja promotes 30 lecturers to professors

The Governing Council of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja), now known as Yakubu Gowon University, has approved the promotion of 218 members of staff, including 30 lecturers to the rank of professors.

The UniAbuja Acting Director of Information and University Relations, Habib Yakoob, made this known via a statement issued on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.

Yakoob said the promotion followed the successful completion of the university’s promotion exercise.

Yakoob noted that the promotion to the professorial cadre was based on positive external assessment reports on the candidates’ scholarly publications.

He stated that the reports were ratified at a meeting of the governing council held on December 11 and 12 at the university’s main campus.

The UniAbuja spokesperson gave a breakdown of the academic promotions which showed that 14 scholars were promoted to the rank of professor while 16 others were elevated to the rank of associate professors.

12 academic staff were promoted to senior lecturers, seven to lecturer 1, one to lecturer II, while one staff member was promoted to the rank of senior librarian.

“Similarly, the review of the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 promotion exercises for non-teaching staff indicates that one staff member was promoted to Level 15, and 22 staff were promoted to Level 14,” Yakoob added.

He stated that 29 others advanced within the senior staff cadre, while 115 non-teaching staff were promoted to Level 13 and below.

According to him, the professorial promotions span a wide range of disciplines, including poetry and psychoanalytic studies, directing and communication aesthetics, feminism and gender studies, as well as philosophy.

Others are chemical engineering, civil engineering, applied chemistry, theoretical physics, internal medicine (neurology), dermatology, neurosurgery, gynaecology, and obstetrics and radiology.

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