The governing council of the University of Abuja has approved the promotion of 218 members of staff. This was announced in a statement on Wednesday.

The promotion followed the successful completion of the university’s promotion exercise. The statement said that the promotion to the professorial cadre was based on positive external assessment reports on the candidates’ scholarly publications.

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

The university spokesperson provided a breakdown of the academic promotions, showing that 14 scholars were promoted to the rank of professor and 16 to the rank of associate professor.

Additionally, 12 academic staff were promoted to senior lecturers, seven to lecturer 1, one to lecturer II, and 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.

The school also said that 29 others advanced within the senior staff cadre, while 115 non-teaching staff were promoted to level 13 and below. According to the statement, the professorial promotions span a wide range of disciplines, including poetry and psychoanalytic studies, directing and communication aesthetics, and feminism and gender studies, as well as philosophy.

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

The university is now known as Yakubu Gowon University.

(NAN)