{"id":6197,"date":"2020-09-29T11:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2020-09-29T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:39:05","slug":"how-true-are-claims-by-ui-professors-vying-to-become-next-vc-of-the-premier-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/how-true-are-claims-by-ui-professors-vying-to-become-next-vc-of-the-premier-university\/","title":{"rendered":"How true are claims by UI professors vying to become next VC of the premier university?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THE CLAIMS <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

UI currently ranks among 400-500 higher education institutions in the world and 1st <\/sup>in Africa. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria is the leading producer of cassava in Africa and the world. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FULL STORY <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, September 17, 2020, seventeen out of eighteen candidates slugged it out at the \u201cVoice of Next Vice-Chancellor 2020\u201d \u2015 an event where aspiring University of Ibadan (UI) VC candidates shared their manifestoes and plans with the UI Community \u2015 ahead of the appointment of a substantive VC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was organised by the UI Community Forum consisting of five unions in the premier institution \u2015 Academic Staff of Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Students Union (SU), Non-Academic Staff Union of University (NASU) and the Non-Academic Technicians (NATS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UI Community Forum established in 2000, has maintained a culture of having a town-hall meeting with aspirants to the position of the Vice-Chancellor of the University. The 2020 edition is the fifth in the series and was transmitted via Facebook and Zoom and across different countries of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This researcher brings you a fact-check of some of the claims made by the candidates in the video which has been viewed over 3,000 times, gathered 57 shares and 75 comments on Facebook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLAIM 1: <\/strong>While speaking at the event, Prof Hakeem Fawehinmi, a professor of clinical anatomy and biomedical anthropology at the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), said UI ranks among a band of 400-500 universities in the world and 1st <\/sup>in Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof Fawehinmi said:\u201cIn its latest ranking, the Times Higher Education has put the university between the 400-500 band and of course the first in Africa.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VERIFICATION<\/strong>: A check on the Times Higher Education shows that the University of Ibadan is ranked among the best 401-500 universities in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further checks also showed that THE ranked University of Cape Town, South Africa as the first university in Africa and not the University of Ibadan which was ranked the 7th <\/sup>best university in Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VERDICT: FALSE! UI is not the best university in Africa but the 7th <\/sup>best in Africa. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLAIM 2: <\/strong>Prof Clement Kolawole, a professor of language education at the University of Ibadan (UI) claimed that Nigeria is the leading producer of cassava in Africa and the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof Kolawole said:\u201cNigeria is the leading producer of cassava in Africa and indeed in the world but UI has not begun to take its rightful position in that.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VERIFICATION: <\/strong>The claim on the largest producer of cassava was substantiated by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

IITA is a research-for-development (R4D) organisation that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges. IITA noted on its website that: \u201cMore than 291 million tons of cassava were produced worldwide in 2017, of which Africa accounted for over 60%. In 2017, Nigeria produced 59 million tons making it the world\u2019s largest producer (approximately 20% of global production) with a 37% increase in the last decade. Nigeria exports about 3.2 million tons annually and earned a record $136 million in 2013.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A leading market research company that provides market and business research intelligence across the globe, IMARC Group, in its study titled Cassava Processing Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2020-2025, stated that it \u201canalysed the market on the basis of categories of end users of cassava. Food industry accounts for around a half of the total global cassava consumption followed by the feed industry. Region-wise, Nigeria is the world\u2019s leading producer of cassava accounting for around a fifth of the world\u2019s cassava production followed by Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Ghana, Congo and others.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VERDICT: TRUE! Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in Africa and the world. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researcher produced this fact-check per the Dubawa 2020 Fellowship to facilitate the ethos of \u201ctruth\u201d in journalism and enhance media literacy in the country.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE CLAIMS  UI currently ranks among 400-500 higher education institutions in the world and 1st in Africa.  Nigeria is the leading producer of cassava in Africa and the world.  FULL STORY  On Thursday, September 17, 2020, seventeen out of eighteen candidates slugged it out at the \u201cVoice of Next Vice-Chancellor 2020\u201d \u2015 an event where aspiring University of Ibadan (UI) VC candidates shared their manifestoes and plans with the UI Community \u2015 ahead of the appointment of a substantive VC.  The event was organised by the UI Community Forum consisting of five unions in the premier institution \u2015 Academic Staff of Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Students Union (SU), Non-Academic Staff Union of University (NASU) and the Non-Academic Technicians (NATS).  The UI Community Forum established in 2000, has maintained a culture of having a town-hall meeting with aspirants to the position of the Vice-Chancellor of the University. The 2020 edition is the fifth in the series and was transmitted via Facebook and Zoom and across different countries of the world.  This researcher brings you a fact-check of some of the claims made by the candidates in the video which has been viewed over 3,000 times, gathered 57 shares and 75 comments on Facebook.  CLAIM 1: While speaking at the event, Prof Hakeem Fawehinmi, a professor of clinical anatomy and biomedical anthropology at the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), said UI ranks among a band of 400-500 universities in the world and 1st in Africa.  Prof Fawehinmi said:\u201cIn its latest ranking, the Times Higher Education has put the university between the 400-500 band and of course the first in Africa.\u201d  VERIFICATION: A check on the Times Higher Education shows that the University of Ibadan is ranked among the best 401-500 universities in the world.  Further checks also showed that THE ranked University of Cape Town, South Africa as the first university in Africa and not the University of Ibadan which was ranked the 7th best university in Africa.  VERDICT: FALSE! UI is not the best university in Africa but the 7th best in Africa.  CLAIM 2: Prof Clement Kolawole, a professor of language education at the University of Ibadan (UI) claimed that Nigeria is the leading producer of cassava in Africa and the world.  Prof Kolawole said:\u201cNigeria is the leading producer of cassava in Africa and indeed in the world but UI has not begun to take its rightful position in that.\u201d  VERIFICATION: The claim on the largest producer of cassava was substantiated by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).  IITA is a research-for-development (R4D) organisation that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges. IITA noted on its website that: \u201cMore than 291 million tons of cassava were produced worldwide in 2017, of which Africa accounted for over 60%. In 2017, Nigeria produced 59 million tons making it the world\u2019s largest producer (approximately 20% of global production) with a 37% increase in the last decade. Nigeria exports about 3.2 million tons annually and earned a record $136 million in 2013.\u201d  A leading market research company that provides market and business research intelligence across the globe, IMARC Group, in its study titled Cassava Processing Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2020-2025, stated that it \u201canalysed the market on the basis of categories of end users of cassava. Food industry accounts for around a half of the total global cassava consumption followed by the feed industry. Region-wise, Nigeria is the world\u2019s leading producer of cassava accounting for around a fifth of the world\u2019s cassava production followed by Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Ghana, Congo and others.\u201d  VERDICT: TRUE! Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in Africa and the world.  The researcher produced this fact-check per the Dubawa 2020 Fellowship to facilitate the ethos of \u201ctruth\u201d in journalism and enhance media literacy in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[210,435,120,122,123],"tags":[1465,1464,1468,1467,1462,1466,1434,1461,1392,1396],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[894],"class_list":["post-6197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-article","category-economy","category-education","category-mainstream","tag-academic-staff-of-union-of-universities-asuu","tag-cassava-production","tag-prof-clement-kolawole","tag-prof-hakeem-fawehinmi","tag-professor","tag-senior-staff-association-of-nigerian-universities-ssanu","tag-times-higher-education","tag-ui","tag-university-of-ibadan","tag-university-ranking"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-1BX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":894,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"ifedayo-ogunyemi","display_name":"Ifedayo Ogunyemi","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be8228b3a5b420ba572091ead305f1ad3849bba99ed2d3b831d79935bfcf09ae?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/University-of-Ibadan-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C700&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}