By Halimah Olamide
Minister-designate, Dr. Bosun Tijani, has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor by a South African university.
The Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand expects Tijani to assume his new position with effect from September 1, 2023.
The appointment, which is expected to run for three years, will end in August 2026.
Quoting a part of the letter addressed to him by the South African institution, he wrote, “The committee approved your application as Visiting Adjunct Professor: Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, with effect from 1 September 2023 for a period of 3 years until 31 August 2026.”
The minister-designate did not state how the new appointment will affect his new task in Nigeria as a minister.
NPO Reports that the minister-designate had a stormy session while being screened by the senate last week after a member, Senator Fatai Buhari (Oyo North) raised questions over Tijanis’ current belief saying he had previously dismissed Nigeria as a joke and a country not worth much considerations.
After explaining the frustrations that led him to make the disparaging comments on twitter in 2019, Tijani apologised for his actions.
Tijani is a Nigerian-British entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), the leading Pan-African innovation and technology centre. Co-Creation Hub works at the forefront of accelerating the application of innovation and social capital for a better society.
Tijani is widely acknowledged as a pioneer and industry leader in the African technology ecosystem and was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People on the continent by New Africa Magazine. He initiated the first visit of Mark Zuckerberg to Nigeria in August 2016 as part of efforts to place Africa on the global technology map.[5] He has also hosted other global technology leaders in Nigeria, including former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in 2019 and most recently in June, 2023, hosted a fireside chat with Microsoft founder and co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates. In 2019, under his leadership, CcHUB acquired Kenya’s iHub and launched the CcHUB Design Lab in Kigali, Rwanda in the same year. He has also expanded CcHUB’s Pan-African footprint into Southern Africa by opening CcHUB Namibia, the main tech hub in Windhoek, Namibia in 2023.