WELLSPRING UNIVERSITY
The Wellspring Management Staff
Our vision is to unlock Africa’s potential through learning by raising a generation of pan-African leaders who are equipped to make a difference from the global perspective. Wellspring University is not just a place of learning; it is a community dedicated to innovation, excellence, and providing lasting impact to society.
University Chancellor
Pastor Ituah Ighodalo
Ituah Ighodalo is a Pastor, an Accountant, a Thinker, a Social Reformer and a Writer. He attended the prestigious Kings College Lagos, the International School University of Ibadan, and obtained a B.Sc combined honours degree in Economics and Accounting in 1982 from the University of Hull, England. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in July 1986 and attended a Business Management Course at the Harvard Business School, Boston in 2011. Pastor Ituah is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Nigeria. He is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management and the American Institute of Management.
Pro Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council
Daniel Chiegile Isimoya, B.Sc. (Economics), M.Sc. (Finance)
Daniel Chiegile Isimoya, B.Sc. (Economics), M.Sc. (Finance), is the Pro-Chancellor of Wellspring University. A teacher, who has been in the education sector all his life, had taught at Edo College, Benin City and at Lagos Polytechnic, Lagos, where he left to join the academic staff of the University of Lagos, Lagos. The drive to put his creative and entrepreneurial skills to productive use led to his resignation from the University of Lagos to establish Management Science Centre in 1983 to provide supplementary lectures to the part-time degree students of the then Correspondence and Open Studies Institute (now Distant Learning Institute) of the University of Lagos.
Vice Chancellor
Prof. Isaac Rotimi Ajayi
Professor Isaac Rotimi AJAYI was born 20th March, l965 in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. He has authored and co-authored more than 75 publications in learned journals and written many books notable of which are: Concise Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers, and Basic Electricity and Magnetism. He has also attended and spoken in more than 45 academic conferences and workshops in Nigeria and in foreign countries like USA, UK, Israel, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Kenya, Namibia and Ghana. Professor Ajayi has won many research grants and successfully coordinated several research projects including the National Space Research and Development Agency in Abuja (NARSDA) research projects in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State. He facilitated the establishment of the Centre for Space, Energy and Environmental Research (CSEER) in the University in 2009. Professor Ajayi is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Physics (NIP) and a member of the Health Physics Society USA among many other professional associations. He has been External Examiner to postgraduate programmes in many universities and has led NUC accreditation panels on programme accreditation to several universities in Nigeria. He has also successfully supervised 4 Ph.D theses. Professor Ajayi enjoyed the Federal Government of Nigeria postgraduate scholarship at the University of Ibadan in l988 and a beneficiary of several International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) training at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. Professor Ajayi was appointed a Regular Associate of the UNESCO International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy in 2006 and served as Visiting Research Scientist to the Centre 2006 -2013. He was also a visiting Research Associate at the Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Germany between 2005 and 2007.
Deputy Vice Chancellor
Prof. Patrick S. Ohikhena
Prof. Patrick S. Ohikhena is a Professor of Business Administration, at the Department of Business Administration, College of Social and Management Sciences, Wellspring University, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. He holds a BSc (Upper Division) from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; MBA from the University of Benin, Benin City (and winner of Akinmokun’s Prize for Business Policy, 1991); and PhD Management from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Dr. Helen Uzezi Wara
Registrar
Mr. Paradise Iwoh
Bursar
Mr. Adedoyin Esan
Ag. University Librarian