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President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the immediate past Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University, Okada, Professor Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae as Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, Lagos.
News of the appointment was shared by the Principal Public Relations Officer of Igbinedion University, Obajide Ilugbo via his Facebook account on Friday.
“Edo State born Professor of Comparative Politics and immediate past Vice-Chancellor of Igbinedion University Okada, Professor Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae has been appointed by President Mohammad Buhari as Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos,” his post on Friday on the social media platform read.
TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Professor Osaghae was Vice-Chancellor of Igbinedion University, Okada for a record fourteen years, from 2004 to 2018.
He was a regular guest speaker at the annual national discourse forum, The Plaftorm organised by the Pastor Poju Oyemade led Covenant Christian Centre in Lagos.
He is a tenured Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Ibadan.
Professor Osaghae is the 2019 Claude Ake Chair at the Uppsala Univesity, Sweden.
He was the 2017 Van Zyl Slabbert Professor of Politics and Sociology at the University of Cape Town and the 2014 Emeka Anyaoku Visiting Chair of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.