Igbinedion University

Igbinedion University is a private university in Nigeria. Located at Okada Wonderland, a town beside Benin City, Edo state, the University was founded by Sir Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, a millionaire, philanthropist and local leader. The university operates on a collegerial system of tertiary education. It has a variable number of accredited faculties and courses ranging from courses in Law, Medicine, Engineering and the Arts and Social Sciences. It presently has a enrollment of about 7000 students and is presently supervised by the Vice Chancellor, Dr. Eghosa Osaghae. The University has in its few years of existence recorded several land mark achievements including being the first private university to produce Medical Doctors. [ [http://www.tribune.com.ng/01052008/edu.html Nigerian Tribune ] ] It is also on record that in 2006, a student of the young Igbinedion University,Mr Sunday Damilola Olawuyi obtained a First Class Honours degree in the highly competitive Nigerian Bar examinations, thereby also standing out as the first and only private University in Nigeria to have achieved that feat. [Igbinedion University Records another First http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-27878.0.html]

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