By our Reporter
Professor AbdulGaniyu Ambali, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin is dead.
The renowned veterinary medicine scholar and university administrator died in the early hours of Saturday at his residence in Oloje Estate, Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Confirming his death in a statement, the university’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Kunle Akogun, said the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, has announced the death of the 9th Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, OON.
The statement read, “Prof. Ambali, who headed the University from 2012 to 2017, died earlier this morning after a brief illness. He was 68.
“The death of Prof. Ambali, according to the Vice Chancellor, is a huge loss not only to the University of Ilorin and the Kwara State University, Malete, which he currently serves as Pro-Chancellor but also to the entire nation and humanity.
“Prof. Egbewole, who has sympathised with the family of the great scholar and the people of the Ilorin Emirate, enjoined sympathisers, particularly members of the UNILORIN community to attend the Janazah for the late ex-Vice Chancellor at his Oloje Housing Estate, Ilorin, by 4.pm.today, Saturday,June 6, 2026.”
