The Department has from its inception, highly dedicated, energetic, dynamic, and devoted staff members that have maintained very high academic standards at all times, no matter the prevailing situation.

The first and only existing staff for the initial 18 months of the Department’s existence was Dr. (later Professor) Abíódún Adébòwálé Káyòdé who admitted the first set of students in September 1965. Due largely to Nigeria’s civil war, which affected some of these pioneer students, only two (Professors Adéyínká Adékòyà and Babájídé Salami) graduated with a B. Sc. (Honours) degree in June 1968.

Prominent among the former staff are Professors A. A. Káyòdé (the Father of the Department), A. S. Rogers (an American), O. S. Adégòkè (a recipient of the Nigerian National Merit and many other top awards), P. G. Cooray (a Sri Lankan of Blessed memory), I de Klasz (Hungarian, who arranged the linkage with the French Ministry of Education), Artsybatshev and  (prominent Russian Geophysicists), E. A. Fáyôsé (the Doyen of Nigerian Micropaleontologists), C. A. Kògbé, B. P. Dash and A. Roy (famous Indian Geophysicists),  O. Ògúnsanwó (an eminent Engineering Geologist), A. O. Àìná, Drs. S. Málômó (the current dynamic Director-General of the Geological Survey of Nigerian Agency), E. I. Enu  (of SNEPCO), S. A. Adédìran (former Oyo State SPEB Chairman and currently a UNESCO consultant on Education, etc.

 

In the late 1970s to early 1980s, the permanent academic staff strength peaked at a remarkable level of 29. Although the Department is presently grossly understaffed, it remains the best academically staffed Department of Geology in the country.

 

 

 

 

 

Non-Academic Staff
S. O. Olowoyo, T. A. Adesiyan, S. Olawore, S. A. Ekemode, A. Ojo, E. J. Adedipe, K. Adeyinka, N. Olanrewaju, O. Ikotun, J. A. Ogundele