{
  "id": 19665889,
  "title": "UNIJOS appoints first female vice-chancellor, Patricia Lar",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/unijos-appoints-first-female-vice-chancellor-patricia-lar",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T15:18:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
    "slug": "premium-times",
    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/north-central/924674-unijos-appoints-first-female-vice-chancellor-patricia-lar.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The University of Jos has appointed Professor Patricia Manko Lar as its 11th substantive Vice-Chancellor. According to This Day, she is the institution's first female to hold the position. Lar succeeds Professor Tanko Ishaya, whose tenure concludes this month, as reported by both Premium Times and This Day.\n\nThe appointment was announced on Thursday by Senator Grace Folashade Bent, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council, during a meeting of the university’s 15th Governing Council. This Day describes Lar as a distinguished Medical Microbiologist who joined the university as a Graduate Assistant in 1987 and became a Professor of Medical Microbiology in 2015.\n\nLar holds degrees from Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Lagos and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Maryland under the NIH-Fogarty Fellowship Programme. Her research focuses on infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and antimicrobial resistance, and she has authored over 40 scholarly publications. Her previous leadership roles include serving as Head of the Department of Microbiology, Director of Linkages and Collaborations, and Secretary-General of the West African Research and Innovation Management Association.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}