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Osun state Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday, renamed the state university, UNIO�SUN, after the former Min�ister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Late Chief Bola Ige. The gov�ernor similarly renamed all the state-owned tertiary insti�tutions.

The governor, who made the announcement at the 4th and 5th convocation cer�emony and the installation of Mrs Folorunso Alakija as the Chancellor of UNIOSUN, also renamed all the six cam�puses of the institution.

The UNIOSUN College of Law, Ifetedo, is now Kayode Esho College of Law; Col�lege of Social Sciences and Management, Okuku, now Olagunsoye College of So�cial Sciences, Okuku; College of Agriculture Ejigbo, now Isiaka Adeleke College of Ag�riculture, Ejigbo; College of Education, Ipetu Ijesa, now Ezekiah Oluwasanmi Col�lege of Education and College of Humanities and Culture, Ikire, now Eniola Atanda College of Humanities and Culture.

Other institutions renamed were: Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke, which will now be Bisi Akande Col�lege of Technology; Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, now, Sunday Afolabi Polytechnic; College Of Education, Ila Orangun is now Adeyemi Oyeduntan College of Educa�tion and the College of Edu�cation, Ilesa which will now be Lawrence Omole College of Education.

Aregbesola, while com�mending Alakija for accept�ing to serve as the Chancellor of the university, described her conferment and the award of Honorary Doctorate Degree in Business Adminis�tration as another glass ceil�ing broken by womanhood.

He urged her to join the state in the desire for an in�stitution that exists for the society and advancement of mankind, saying most Ni�gerian universities are too withdrawn and unconcerned from the society and its prob�lems.

Earlier, Alakija who is an oil magnate and Founder of the Rose of Sharon Foun�dation, charged parents to change their perspectives on girl child education in Nige�ria as women are now break�ing all barriers in human en�deavours