Jami'ar Obafemi Awolowo

Jami'ar Obafemi Awolowo (OAU), wacce aka fi sani da Jami'ar Ife, jami'a ce ta tarayya a Ile-Ife, Jihar Osun, Najeriya. An kafa jami'ar a 1961 kuma an fara karatun ne a watan Oktoba 1962  a matsayin Jami'ar Ife ta gwamnatin yankin Yammacin Najeriya, wanda Samuel Ladoke Akintola ya jagoranta. An sake masa suna "Jami'ar Obafemi Awolowo" a ranar 12 ga Mayu 1987, ta gwamnatin soja da Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida ke jagoranta, don girmama Obafemi awolowo (1909-1987), firaministan farko na Yammacin Najeriya, wanda da farko ya yi tunanin ra'ayin kafa jami'ar.

 Tarihi 
A shekara ta 1951, tare da amincewa da sabon kundin tsarin mulki, an yi manyan canje-canje ga zaɓaɓɓun 'Yan majalisa da Firayim Ministocin yanki a yankuna. Saboda sun ga ilimi a matsayin babban abin da ke haifar da canji da ci gaba, sabbin gwamnatocin yankin sun ba da kariyar ilimi na asali da na sakandare. Ministan Ilimi na Tarayya ne ya kafa kwamiti a 1959 don nazarin bukatun da aka tsara na kasar ga masu karatun jami'a tsakanin 1960 da 1980.  Kwamitin ya kasance karkashin jagorancin malamin Cambridge Eric Ashby, masanin a Kwalejin Clare, Cambridge, kuma ya hada da masanin tattalin arziki Frederick H. Harbison .  Fatawar rahoton karshe na hukumar da gwamnatin Yammacin Yamma ta yi shi ne cewa Jami'ar Ibadan za ta gamsar da bukatun Yammacin, matsayin da gwamnatin tarayya ba ta yarda da shi ba. Kafin a gabatar da rahoto na ƙarshe a watan Oktoba na shekara ta 1960, gwamnatin Yamma ta Farko shirye-shirye don kafa jami'a a yankin.

 Cibiyar Ibadan 
A ranar 22 ga Satumba 1962, an buɗe jami'ar ga dalibai 244 a wuraren ta na wucin gadi, Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta baya, Ibadan .  Wasu daga cikin sabbin dalibai sun kasance a baya a Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya, kuma an dauki wasu ma'aikata daga Kwalejin Jami'ar, Ibadan, da kuma kasashen waje. An zabi Oladele Ajose a matsayin Mataimakin Shugaban Jami'ar na farko, wanda ya fara da fannonin noma, zane-zane, tattalin arziki da nazarin zamantakewa, doka da kimiyya. Hanyar gudanarwa ta jami'a da kwalejoji sun yi kama da Kwalejin Jami'ar, Ibadan, kuma a lokacin da aka kafa ta, ta kafa dangantaka da Jami'ar Wisconsin. Yanayin siyasa mara kyau a cikin yankin ya jinkirta tashi daga Ibadan zuwa Ife.

Motsawar jami'ar zuwa sabon harabar a Ile-Ife ta fara ne a watan Janairun 1967.  Kwalejin da ke Ife tana da bangaren farko na kantin magani a Yammacin Afirka, sashen farko na injiniyan sinadarai, da bangaren na farko na kayan lantarki da injiniyan lantarki. Makarantar likitancinta ta fara ne da tsarin karatun da aka haɗa da kuma tsarin al'umma, wanda daga baya Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya ta karɓa, da kuma karatun baccalaureate (BSc honours) kafin samun shiga makarantar asibiti, amma daga baya aka watsar da wannan.

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