FUNAAB, University of Ibadan, EU/Gates Foundation, FDI, FSNN; Journey of the award-winning Professor of Food Science and Technology to NSPRI
The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, through the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN), has appointed Professor Lateef Oladimeji Sanni, as the new Executive Director of the Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI), Ilorin.
Professor Sanni, who is replacing Dr. Patricia Pessu, who retired from service on the 14th of April, 2023, is expected to assume duty on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.
Professor Lateef Oladimeji Sanni graduated from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Nigeria with Second Class Upper Division in the Department of Food Science and Technology in 1990. He obtained Master’s and PhD. degrees in the Department of Food Technology, University of Ibadan in 1993 and 1999.
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He joined FUNAAB in 1993 as Assistant Lecturer, became a Professor of Food Science and Technology in 2008, presented his inaugural lecture in 2015, and became Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development) in 2017.
He won the 2008 Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Award for Regional Technology Development in sub Saharan Africa.
He has over 27 years of experience in research, consultancy, and collaborations as a postharvest expert on tropical root crops mostly implemented by the International Institute of Tropical Root Crop and Natural Resources Institute, UK.
He has been a project leader to multi-million dollar EU/Gates Foundation-sponsored projects since 2008 till date.
He served as a resource person for the World Bank upscaling of flash drying experience in West Africa. He was the principal investigator, the Food Developers Initiative and Food Science and Nutrition Network sponsored by the Association of African Universities.
