
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor, DVC, Administration at the University of Ibadan, UI, Professor Peter O. Olapegba, FNPA, has stated that the University of Ibadan was built upon the tradition of excellence and personal sacrifice.
He made the statement while speaking on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kayode O. Adebowale, mni, FAS, at the oelebration and presentation of certificates to the facilitators, technical team, and top staff performers at the University-wide LMS Training Programme in collaboration with the Partnership for Enhanced Blended Learning (PEBL-WA).
Professor Olapegba said that the UI ambassadors at the PEBL-WA successfully exhibited this tradition with the University of Ibadan, producing the overall best graduating student, out of all the universities that participated.

He stated that it was heart-warming that UI’s experience in Blended learning has been deepened through the PEBL-WA adding that UI is now better prepared for virtual or blended learning unlike in the immediate post covid-19 era when UI was caught napping.
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He specially commended the senior lecturers involved, some of whom were professors and some involved in administrative roles like deans and directors, for their humility in taking up the role of students and relating very well, serving as motivation and role model to younger lecturers involved in the programme.
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Professor Oluyemisi Bamgbose, SAN, also commended the participants/ambassadors for their outstanding performances.
She said today’s programme was specially put together to celebrate the outstanding performances of the UI ambassadors to the PEBL-WA training who did well to make the University proud.
According to her, the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) gave feedback on an outstanding and commendable trainee from UI.
She noted that UI has been in celebration-mood since the beginning of the month with the records of the just released results of the Nigerian Bar Examinations where UI produced the best graduating student and 26 other first class graduates.
According to the Project Coordinator, Professor Adesola Odole, UI became a partner University alongside eleven other universities chosen to participate in the PEBL-WA training project.
The project was sponsored by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) in collaboration with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). 27 lecturers were trained in the first phase for 6 months from February 2022 to September 2022.
UI produced the best graduating student, and nine participants came out with distinctions and nine with credit. The eighteen participants in the distinction and credit grades were involved in the second phase of training in November 2022.
To be involved in the second phase of the training, the trained lecturers were mandated to cascade the training to other lecturers as well as students in their universities.
Consequently, twenty five lecturers were involved in the second phase (eighteen from the first phase and seven additional facilitators) and they were involved in the successful training of a hundred and one (101) lecturers and five hundred and one (501) students of UI.
Certificates were later presented to the best participants in various categories.
The best Trainee Performer was Dr S. O. Olajuyigbe while Dr Moyinoluwa J. Onoja; Dr A.O. Jaiyesinmi; Dr T. Oladele; Dr A. S. Ake; and Dr Bidemi I. Akinlade emerged tops in their various batches.
To underscore the importance of the programme, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kayode O. Adebowale, mni, FAS, later came over to take photographs with the best performers.