# Lilian Salami

Lilian Imuetinyan Salami (born 8 August 1956) is a Nigerian academic who has served as vice-chancellor of the University of Benin since 2019. She is the second female vice-chancellor of the university after Grace Alele-Williams in 1985.She was director-general/chief executive of the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), Ondo State, Nigeria.

## Quotes

* Good funding can redress dilapidated equipment, and other infrastructure, improved remuneration to motivate teachers and attract global scholars. Speech at Tertiary Education summit

### "Prof. Lillian Salami Speaking on Career and Academic"

* To succeed in life, Be who you are at all times and let people know who you are.
* Things have changed and everything is getting dynamic our society and institutions are dynamic. We are now in the digital age and things have taken a different dimension. For me, it’s not a race. It’s about being relevant in one’s time and putting in one’s best.
* It is still the educational system that produced the manpower that is driving this5 country.
** Speaking on the improvement of Uniben since her appointment as the Vice Chancellor
* The University of Benin is taking a yearning and amiable look. The reasons for this is that we have been synergising with our Alumni that have been very generous to us.
** Speaking on Nigerians maintaining good nutritional culture for healthy status and prevention of diseases.
* Food accessibility continues to be a challenge and nutrition a major contributor to health prospects and choices.
* Food security and healthy living is the ability of every citizen to have regular access to enough food to meet his or her nutritional requirements for a healthy, active and reproductive life.
** Speaking on the state of university education.
* I think yes, we may have challenges in certain areas and we are not quite there with technology yet but this is a digital era and I don’t think we are doing badly. We can only do better than we’re doing right now.
* I think for everyone who has risen to the rank of professor in a university, it is not always about whether one dreams or not, it’s always there that one day, one would want to get to the apex of one’s career, which, of course, is becoming the vice chancellor of the University of Benin.
** Speaking on desires for wanting to reach the apex of one's career
* I think for anyone who gets into a position, not only does one want to fill the shoes of those who have done well in that post, one also wants to surpass their achievements.
** Speaking on the desire to surpass the achievements of predecessors
* Things have changed and everything is getting dynamic– our society and institutions are dynamic. We are now in the digital age and things have taken a different dimension.
** Speaking on the things been more dynamic now - the digital age
* Many say that the standard of education (in the country) has fallen but we would soon find out that has not really been so. In spite of all the challenges, it is still the educational system that produced the manpower that is driving this country.
** Speaking on the drive and contribution to the economy
* The student-to-lecturer ratio must also improve. There are lecturers who teach up to 6,000 students in a class, and they have to mark the scripts manually, but they are not paid commensurate to the hard work that they put in.
** Speaking on student to lecturer ratio in Nigerian education system
* A typical African man is the man who must be the head, and must be heard. But we are beginning to shift a little, as women executives are getting the rightful positions and the right respect that they deserve, as much as such respect should also be given to the men.
** Speaking on the rise of women in various sectors.