Funaab matriculation date revealed

Funaab: Matriculation, Third
Commencement Lecture to Hold on
Jan 28
The 2014/2015 Academic Session
Matriculation for fresh students and the
Third Commencement Lecture of the
Federal University Of Agriculture
Abeokuta, which would formally kick-
start the new Academic Session, are to
hold on Wednesday, January 28, 2015,
at the FUNAAB Ceremonial Building, at
10am and 12 noon respectively.
        Guest Speaker
The lecture, titled, “Promoting Youth
Entrepreneurship in Nigerian
Universities: Students’ Choices,
Nigeria’s Legacy”, and would be
delivered by Mrs. Folusho Olaniyan, the
Chief Executive, Contact Consulting
Nigeria Limited. Mrs. Olaniyan bagged
her first and second degrees from the
University of Ilorin, and the University
of Lagos, respectively. She holds a
Professional Postgraduate Diploma in
Marketing from the Chartered Institute
of Marketing, Maidenhead, United
Kingdom. A financial expert and
seasoned administrator, she started her
career as a Management Trainee with
the AG Leventis Nigeria Plc in 1988
and rose to become Branch Manager
and later, Head of Sales and Marketing
in 2002. Mrs. Olaniyan later joined
UTC Nigeria Plc in 2005 and based on
her impressive performance, she was
made the Managing Director/CEO in
2007. At UTC, she spearheaded an
impressive turnover growth and in
2012, under her leadership, the
company pioneered the
commercialisation of cassava bread in
Nigeria. In 2014, she set up Contact
Consulting Nigeria Limited, a firm that
is focused on marketing, strategy and
researching into emerging markets.
Mrs. Olaniyan is a member of the
Institute of Directors (IoD) and had
served as a Market Analyst in the 2014
Cassava Scoping Study, funded by
Partnerships in Niger Delta and co-
funded by Chevron (Nigeria) Limited.
She is currently the Marketing and
Strategy Consultant to Cassava: Adding
Value for Africa (C:AVA), Nigeria, an
organisation sponsored by the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation on the
development of the cassava industry in
Africa, which is based in FUNAAB.
The Third Commencement Lecturer is
also the founder and Chairperson,
Cassava Advancement Initiative and
had presented papers at several
Agribusiness summits in West Africa.
In recognition of her contributions to
the Nigerian food industry, and her
services to the nation, she was
conferred with a National Honour of
the Officer of the Order of the Niger
(OON) by the Federal Government. It
would be recalled that the last edition
of the Commencement Lecture, the
second, was delivered by Mr. Folu
Ayeni, the Co-Founder/Vice-Chairman
of Tantalizers Nigeria Plc, which was
titled, “Making Sparrows and Hammers
out of FUNAAB Students and
Graduates”.
The Vice-Chancellor and President,
Association of African Universities
(AAU), Professor Olusola Oyewole, is
expected to chair both occasions.