The University of Ibadan is a federal university in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, with about 33,000 students. It was founded in 1948 as University College Ibadan, a branch of the University of London that supervised its academic programs and awarded its degrees until 1967, and it became an independent institution in 1962, making it the oldest degree-awarding institution in Nigeria. Its establishment followed a recommendation of the Asquith and Elliot Commissions on Higher Education in the then-British colonies that two universities stemming from the University of London be set up in Ghana and Nigeria. Kenneth Mellanby, its first principal, inaugurated it on 18 January 1948.
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is a federal university located in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
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is a federal university located in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
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is a federal university located in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
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