By Gabriel Olawale

Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, University of Benin, UNIBEN, Chief Edwin Clark, has praised the staff and students of the university for breaking world record as the first institution to produce eight professors to head various tertiary institutions across the country at the same time.

Expressing his delight, Clark said that the growing demand for technical manpower, development of research in science and technology as well as provision of intellectual reservoir in the country have continued to make UNIBEN’s products crucial in national development.

Clark said that the appointment of eight professors from a single institution to head universities nationwide has given the university a great sense of pride and fulfilment as, “for the first time in world history, eight Professors from a single university, will all at the same time, be appointed to head various tertiary institutions in a country.”