{"id":16433,"date":"2026-11-13T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/unijos-gets-first-female-vc\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T01:00:48","slug":"unijos-gets-first-female-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/unijos-gets-first-female-vc\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIJOS gets first female VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Jos has appointed Prof. Patricia Mamko Lar as its Vice-Chancellor, making her the first woman to occupy the position in the history of the institution.\n<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Lar succeeds Prof. Tanko Ishaya.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the university on Thursday, \u201cProfessor Patricia Mamko Lar formally takes over from Professor Tanko Ishaya FBCS FNCS as the 11th substantive and 1st female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jos.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The statement added: \u201cProfessor Patricia Lar is the 11th substantive and 1st female Vice-Chancellor of the university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The appointment was announced on Thursday, 12th November, 2026, during a special meeting of the 15th governing council of the university. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe announcement was made by Senator Grace Folashade Bent CON, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, during the special meeting of the 15th Governing Council on Thursday, 12th November 2026,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the letter of appointment to the new Vice-Chancellor, the Pro-Chancellor charged her to be focused.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, signed by Emmanuel Madugu, ANIPR, Deputy Registrar, Information and Public Relations, _For: Registrar\/Secretary to Council_, concluded: \u201cDetails shortly.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Lar\u2019s appointment marks a historic milestone for the University of Jos, which was founded in 1971.\n<\/p>\n<p>A professor of Medical Microbiology at the university, Prof. Lar previously served as Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Yakubu Gowon University, Abuja, formerly the University of Abuja, for a six-month term.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Jos has appointed Prof. Patricia Mamko Lar as its Vice-Chancellor, making her the first woman to occupy the position in the history of the institution. Prof. Lar&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}