John Omoniyi Abiri

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John Omoniyi Abiri
John Omoniyi Abiri

John Omoniyi Abiri is a Nigerian academic.

Life

Abiri was born into the family of

, in 1957 and graduated in 1961.

Abiri holds the B.A degree of the University of London (1961), Master of Education (M.Ed) degree (1965) of the University of Birmingham, U.K as well as the PGCE (1963) and the Ph.D. (1969) degrees, both of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a winner of both the Irving Bonnar Graduate Prize and the George Cadbury Prize in Education.

After obtaining his first degree (B.A), he served as a graduate teacher at Ife Grammar School, Ile-Ife, in 1961-1962. He later moved to the University of Ibadan, starting as a Research Fellow and then as Assistant Lecturer. He rose steadily through the academic ranks until he became a Reader (Associate Professor). He was a visiting Senior Fellow in the Institute of Education of the University of London in 1973-74. He later served in an acting capacity as the First Head of Department and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the then

successively in four states of Nigeria between 1987 and 1993. He was once an Assistant Editor of the West African Journal of Education (WAJE) at the University of Ibadan and Editor of the Nigerian Journal of Educational Psychology. He is the author of Moremi: An Epic of feminine Heroismand its Yoruba version Moremi: Itan Akoni Obinrin. He is also the Editor and Co-author of Perspectives on History of Education in Nigeria. He has many scholarly articles published in learned journals. He supervised many students for M.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Ibadan and Ilorin, many of whom have become full Professors. He retired from academia in 2001 after many years of meritorious service, including 25 years as a full professor.

He was awarded the title of Baapitan of Ife (Chief Historian of Ife) by the

town, with the title of Obapero of Abiri in 2010.

References

• Wale Sokunbi, New Obas: Gov. Oyinlola's unique model for community development.
• http://library.bu.edu/search/c?SEARCH=PR+9387.9+A263+M67+1970^{[permanent dead link]}
• National Open University of Nigeria, History of Education in Nigeria, Pages 8, 33, 79; https://web.archive.org/web/20110724143437/http://www.nou.edu.ng/noun/NOUN_OCL/pdf/pdf2/EDU%20104%20MAIN%201.pdf
• Adegoroye, et al.; Empowering the Students’ Affairs Divisions in Nigerian Universities and other Tertiary Institutions for Personality and Character Molding. Page 9.
• Frank Willett (1960). Ife and its Archaeology. The Journal of African History, 1, pp 231–248
  doi:10.1017/S002185370000181X ; http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3229984
• Marquis Who's who; https://archive.today/20130128133336/http://bios.marquiswhoswho.com/john_omoniyi_abiri/psychologist_educator_researcher/6814342
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• http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AAbiri%2C+J.+O.+O.&fq=&dblist=638&start=1&qt=page_number_link

External links

• sunnewsonline.com