 Anchor University | |
| Motto | Character, Competence, Courage |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Established | September 2014 |
| Chancellor | William Kumuyi |
| Vice-Chancellor | Samuel Oye Bandele [1] |
| Location | , , 6°49′47″N3°28′32″E / 6.8298361°N 3.4756138°E |
| Website | aul.edu.ng |
The Anchor University is a private Christian university owned by the Deeper Christian Life Ministry. The university is located at Ayobo, Ipaja, Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria.
The process of founding Anchor University was billed for September 2012 but suffered a huge setback as the representatives of the NUC coming for final inspection and approval of their multi-billion projects were in the ill-fated Dana Air crash. Professor Celestine Onwuliri, husband of a serving minister and an executive director with the Nigerian Universities Commission was among the over 157 victims that died in the Dana Air crash which occurred on Sunday, June 3, 2012. He was the leader of the team. Construction began in 2013. [2] The University was founded in 2014 by Deeper Christian Life Ministry. [3] [4] It was approved by the Nigerian University Commission (NUC) on Wednesday, 2 November 2016. [5]
There are seven faculties in the university. [6]
(a) Faculty of Humanities
(b) Faculty of Social and Management Sciences
(c) Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences
(d) Faculty of Law
(e) Faculty of Environmental Science
(f) Faculty of Basic and Allied Medical Sciences
Anchor has library which is segmented into different sections,the serial section, circulation section and the also consist of different books and journals. [7]
Head of library and information science in anchor university is Mrs Taiwo Akinde. [8]
There is a development of Library app in the school that made the cataloging to be very easy to access. [9]
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