Prof Adenike Osofisan (Fmr. President, Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria)
Prof Adenike Osofisan was a pioneer student of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) ), and graduated with a 2nd Class Upper Division Honours Degree in Computer Science/Economics. She also has a Master’s degree in Computer Science in 1979 from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and PhD Computer Science in OAU to become the first Nigerian woman to hold a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science. She also has an MBA (Finance & Accounts) the University of Ibadan in 1993, where she graduated with unprecedented nine distinctions. She started her career in the Polytechnic Ibadan in 1979 where she rose to the position of Dean Faculty of Science before joining the services of the University of Ibadan in 1997 as Senior Lecturer and rose to the position of Professor in 2006 as the first female professor of Computer Science in Africa. She has supervised twenty PhD Theses, several M.Sc. Thesis and final year projects.
She was president of Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria 2005-9 as the first female to head the Council, Former Member of Nigeria Institute of Management Council, Member Board of Trustees of Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), former Member of Council of Nigeria Mathematical Centre and its Academic Board and member of SAP African Academic Board just to mention a few. She was Foundation Director of the University of Ibadan School of Business (UISB), August 1st 2012- July 31st 2018. She was immediate past Provost, College of Fellows Nigeria Computer Society also as the first female Provost of the College, 2017 to 2021. Prof. Osofisan has been the recipient of many national and international prizes, scholarships, and fellowship awards to the United Kingdom, USA, Australia, India, Ghana and South Africa.
