{"id":26626,"date":"2026-05-21T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=26626"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:49:38","slug":"39-year-old-professor-segun-aina-appointed-new-jamb-registrar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=26626","title":{"rendered":"39-Year-Old Professor Segun Aina Appointed New JAMB Registrar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">President <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Bola Ahmed Tinubu<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> has appointed 39-year-old Professor Segun Aina as the new Registrar of the <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, making him the youngest person to be named to the position in the agency\u2019s history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Professor Aina, who will turn 40 in July, succeeds Professor <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Is-haq Oloyede<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, whose two-term tenure expires on July 31, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">At 39, Aina became one of Nigeria\u2019s youngest professors of Computer Engineering, a feat that highlighted his rapid rise in academia and public-sector institutional reform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">A Professor of Computer Engineering at <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Obafemi Awolowo University<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, Aina has over 15 years of experience in digital infrastructure, examination systems, and public-sector transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering from <\/span><span class=\"s2\">University of Kent<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, alongside an MSc in Internet Computing and Network Security and a PhD in Digital Signal Processing from <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Loughborough University<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">President Tinubu said he expects the new registrar to deploy his youthful energy, technological expertise, and institutional experience to strengthen JAMB\u2019s operations and build on the achievements recorded under Oloyede\u2019s leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed 39-year-old Professor Segun Aina as the new Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, making him the youngest person to be named to the position in the agency\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4592,11610,11609,193],"class_list":["post-26626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jamb","tag-jamb-registrar","tag-professor-segun-aina","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26630,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26626\/revisions\/26630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}