AAU lecturer loses professorial rank over alleged breach of regulations

The Governing Council of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Edo State, has withdrawn the promotion of Dr Edomwonyi Omon Edwin to the rank of professor
following “serious breach of the institution’s Regulations and Schemes Governing Senior Staff 2017,” as amended.

Edwin, of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences’ rank withdrawal was approved at the university’s 241st Regular Meeting held on March 17, 2026, according to a statement signed by the the Registrar of the institution, Mrs. Ambrose Agbebaku.

The Registrar in the statement directed the lecturer to immediately stop parading himself as a professor of Ambrose Alli University.

“The withdrawal is a sequel to the serious breach of the University Regulations and Schemes Governing Senior Staff 2017 (as amended),” the statement reads.