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We welcome you to the official website of the department of Botany, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. We hope that this website will help you know more about the Department and what it offers.
The Department of Botany is one of the oldest departments of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (then University of Ife ), being one of the foundation departments the University started with in 1962.
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Throughout its existence, the Department’s students have come from all parts of Nigeria and some African countries. Many graduates of the Department have enjoyed prominent careers and have continued to excel in numerous fields.
The Department is committed to provide high quality training of international standards contributing to the advancement of knowledge of Botanical Sciences that is socially and ethically relevant and applying that knowledge to scientific and socioeconomic development of our nation and the wider world. The staff is committed to the pursuit of truth, intellectual honesty, openness to ideas and excellence through the |
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| attainment of the highest professional and ethical standards in teaching, learning, research and community service. They are also responsible, caring mentor in all dealings |
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with our students and with each other. The Department operates a student advisory system wherebyeach student is assigned to a staff adviser to advise and guide him/her throughout the duration of his/her course. The student population as of 2007 is 261.
There are twenty-two academic members of staff in the different areas of Botanical Sciences in the Department. The Department undertakes teaching and research in the following areas of Botanical \Sciences namely anatomy, morphology, cryptogams, ecology, genetics, physiology, taxonomy, biotechnology and ethnobotany. It runs M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree programmes in all these areas.
The Department has an internationally recognized Herbarium, Ife Herbarium, which is one of the repositories of the largest collections of plant specimens among the Herbaria in Nigeria. There is a Reforestation Unit in the Department which is engaged in the propagation of indigenous plant species for reseeding depleted forests and supply of seedlings to the community for planting in compounds and farms. |
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