NJALA - Key Persons
Alhaji Umaru Gbow is dedicated and knowledgeable Webmaster with comprehensive experience and expertise in website maintenance, design, and content management. Adept at solving any computer technology related problems. Offers a degree in Computer Science from Njala University, Drupal Content Management certification, strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, ability to perform well in team environments and wide experience in ArcGIS software and remote sensing.
Augustine Sheku is a holder of a B.Sc. with Honors In computer science from Njala University. He has worked for PCS Holdings iptel Sierra Leone Limited as a Network operating Officer, He has broad knowledge of Network Infrastructure protocols, Strong at problem solving and working knowledge of Local area network (LAN) Wide area network (WAN). He is the Network administrator at Njala university.
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- Senior Lecturer and Formal DVC Bo Campus
Dr. Augustine B. Rashid-Noah holds a BSc degree in Agriculture General from the University of Sierra Leone; PG Diploma in Tropical Crop Storage and Processing from the National College of Agricultural Engineering, UK; MSc in Agricultural Engineering(Tropical Agricultural Mechanization option) from Reading University and Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering (Soil & Water) from McGill University; Training certificates in ''On-Farm Water Management'' from the International Irrigation Center, Utah State University and in ''The use of nuclear and related techniques to increase water use efficiency in rain-fed and irrigated agriculture'' from the FAO/IAEA Biotechnology Laboratory, Seibersdorf, Austria; Certificate in ''Farm machinery use and maintenance'', from Massey-Fergusson Training Centre, Stoneleigh, UK. He is a member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE).
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- Dean, School of Social Sciences & Law
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- Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Commission
- Member of Njala University Senate and Court
- Senior Lecturer and Formal Acting DVC NJala Campus ( 2019 - 2020 )
Dr Joseph Sherman-Kamara is Currently the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Commission in Sierra Leone. He is on leave of absence from Njala University, where he held various academic and administrative positions including Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Njala Campus (June 2018 - February 2020), Director of Research and Development, (2017 - 2020) and Head of Department, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Laboratory of Postharvest Food and Bioprocess Engineering in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.
Dr. Sherman-Kamara's professional interests include ongoing research in the field of postharvest and bioprocessing technologies and has published extensively in various peer reviewed journals and other scientific media.
His teaching experience spans more than 20 years of work at Njala University, where he has taught many courses in crop drying, crop processing and material handling, crop storage, and crop preservation, design of agricultural and food processing machines, management of postharvest systems, postharvest biotechnology, renewable energy technologies, etc., to sub-degree, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
Dr. Sherman-Kamara has played leading roles in various technical evaluations and in-depth institutional assessments for international, private and public sector institutions. He has designed and implemented a range of training programmes in various aspects of agriculture, postharvest and agroprocessing systems for youth and adult farmers, within formal and informal settings.
Dr. Sherman-Kamara has served as a member of Njala University Senate and Court for several years, where he participated in key committees linked mainly to Quality Assurance and Research Management. As Coordinator of the Quality Assurance Committee, he facilitated the institutionalization of Quality Assurance in the University. He currently provides support as Senior Project Adviser to ongoing the Assuring Quality Higher Education in Sierra Leone (AQHEd-SL) project. He has served as Project Counterpart for four successive Technical Cooperation projects since 2014 in the field of crop improvement for the enhancement of postharvest quality of rice and cassava in Sierra Leone.
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- Head of Department - Aquaculture and Fisheries Management
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- Head of Department - Animal Science
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- Head of Department - Agricultural Engineering
Dr. Blango is working on extending cropping into the dry season using a micro-dam rainwater harvesting system. He is interested in improving water productivity in irrigated rice. He is also assessing groundwater recharge using stable isotopes of water.
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- Assistant
- Senior Administrator
- Assistant of Njala University at the Registrar 's Office
Mr. Abdulai Mustapha Rogers is the Senior Administrator Assistant of Njala University at the Registrar's Office. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from University of Sierra Leone (FBC) and MBA in Finance from Njala University, Sierra Leone.
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- Chief
- Chief Laboratory Technician
Mr. Braima S. Turay is a seasoned teacher spanning two years now.
Mr. Braima S. Turay is a chief Laboratory Technician and Lecturer of crop science. Also deputizing the farm practice coordinator in the school of Agriculture.
Mr. Ibrahim Abu-Bakarr holds a BSc degree in Biological Sciences and an MSc degree in Environmental Biology from the University of Sierra Leone. He also holds Certificates in Tropical Ecology and Conservation from Kibale Forest, Uganda and in Sustainable Environmental Management from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His academic training is also complemented by targeted training in wildlife assessment and survey methodologies. His research and career interests include Wildlife ecology and conservation with emphasis on primates and other large mammals, tropical rainforest and fragmentation, protected area and natural resource management. He has more than ten years of experience in biodiversity conservation and research especially in my native Sierra Leone and was a key part of the year long Environmental Impact Assessment of the recently inaugurated Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project in Sierra Leone. He is presently coordinating the United States Fish and Wildlife Service funded project at Njala University on Strengthening Leadership for Conservation in Sierra Leone and Liberia through Research and Training on the Western Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes verus.
Mr. John Jones is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, Banking and Finance, School of the Social Sciences, Njala University Bo Campus. He holds a B.Sc. (Economics with Education) from the Njala University; M.Ed in Statistics, Measurement & Evaluation from Njala University; and M.Sc in Economics from Njala University.
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- Head of Department - Crop Protection
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- Head of Department - Forestry
Mr. Mattia is a seasoned lecturer spanning 18 Years. Research interest includes but not limited to Assessment of forest resources and carbon content of trees.
A lecturer with 5 years' experience in Teaching, and research and community Service.
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- Vice Chancellor
- Appointed Vice Chancellor and Principal
Professor Bashiru Mohamed Koroma is currently appointed Vice Chancellor and Principal of Njala University effective 1 st September 2022. From March 2020-present he holds substantive position as Deputy Vice Chancellor of Njala Campus and double as Pro-Vice Chancellor, Njala University (Sierra Leone). Additionally, he has served as Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies (2016-2020), Njala University. Dean and Head of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Community Health Sciences (2013-2016); Dean, School of Environmental Sciences from 2011-2013; Director of the Institute of Environmental Management and Quality Control (IEMQC,), School of Environmental Sciences from 2007-2011 respectively. He was also appointed Head of Chemistry Department (his establishment) in the School of Environmental Sciences from 2005-2011 and Director of the Directorate of Planning Research and Development from 2007-2010.
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- Deputy Vice Chancellor, Bo Campus
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- Dean, School of Natural Resources Management
Olapade Olufemi Julius is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management, School of Natural Resources Management, Njala University, Njala, Sierra Leone. He graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria with a honours degree in Plant Science; a Diploma Certificate in General Agriculture from IAR&T Akure, Nigeria; Postgraduate Diploma in Education, MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Aquaculture and Fisheries Management from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Dr. Olapade is at the tail end of completing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Project Management at Walden University, Baltimore, USA. He has served in many administrative capacities in his university and he is the current Head, Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management. He served as a member of many committees including Steering Committee for the Implementation of Technical Capacity Building in Fishing and Sea Food Processing Technology Project in Sierra Leone (United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Collaboration with Russian Federation and Government of Sierra Leone. Member, TCP Fisheries Legal Review Technical Committee (FLRTC) FAO/World Bank. He has extensive working experiences with the private sector on education and agriculture. He has consulted for both local and international interests including FAO and WorldFish in his areas of expertise. He is a member of many professional associations including Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON), World Society of Toxicology (SOT), Asian Fisheries Society (AFS), and Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM). He has travelled extensively in Africa and Asia and contributed significantly to both local and international journals; and has contributed chapters in books and manuals.
The department under his leadership in 2012, in collaboration with the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management, University of Ibadan and the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, University of Buea, Cameroon won $1 million U.S dollars MDTF competitive grant provided by CORAF/WECARD. The fund was for the development of Sustainable Integrated Aquaculture in Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Nigeria. His areas of research interest are fish nutrition, pollution control, hatchery design and project management. He is presently researching on safety of marketed raw and processed fish products in Sierra Leone. He is married to Folasade Abimbola and they are blessed with two sons Oluwatimilehin Fortunate and Enos Rereloluwa.
Professor Osman Alimamy Sankoh, commonly known to most Sierra Leoneans as Mallam O., was born and bred in the little market village of Warima, on the Masiaka-Bo Road. He attended Tomlinson High School, Songo.
Osman holds a BSc. Ed. (Mathematics) from Njala University College, University of Sierra Leone (now Njala University) and a BSc. Hons, an MSc. and a DSc. in Statistics from the University of Dortmund (now Technical University Dortmund) in Germany.
Prof. Sankoh became the Statistician General and CEO of Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) in April 2018. Under his leadership the institution has seen a positive transformation with his WINNER vision and a BONGOLOGY mantra that is driven in a FIAT car of Fairness, Integrity, Accountability and Transparency. Stats SL has gained high credibility in recent times with MDAs and other national and international agencies collaborating with it. A US$30m grant from the World Bank for a 5-year period effective September 2020 has put Stats SL on a solid footing to implement key national statistical activities including the first electronic Mid-Term Population and Housing Census in 2021.
Osman was in March 2020 unanimously elected in New York as the Rapporteur of the United Nations Statistical Commission, the only African serving the Bureau and the first Sierra Leonean in that position. He was reelected for a second term in March this year.
Due to demonstrated capacity in institutional building and transformation, Prof Sankoh was appointed to act in April 2020 as Vice Chancellor and Principal of Njala University. In just a year in this joint role, Njala University has recorded gains that are being reported nationally.
Mallam O.'s philanthropic wing, the Mallam O. & J. Sankoh Foundation, is financing the Sierra Leonean Writers Series (SLWS) which publishes and promotes writers of Sierra Leonean origin and other nationalities whose books must have a Sierra Leonean context. As publisher, Mallam O. has brought smiles to more than one hundred Sierra Leonean writers across all walks of life, especially those who never thought publishing a book would be possible.
Professor Sankoh was appointed in May 2020 by His Excellency the President to serve on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee on Emergencies (STAGE) which provides scientific and technical advice to the Presidency and NaCOVERC in the fight against coronavirus pandemic in Sierra Leone.
Before he finally returned home in March 2018, Osman was the Executive Director of the international health research organization - INDEPTH Network based in Ghana, serving 20 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and dealing many international researchers, donors and partners, including the World Bank, Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Hewlett Foundation and Wellcome Trust. He has more than 120 scientific publications to his credit in peer-reviewed international journals including Nature, Science, and The Lancet.
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- Dean Elect - School of Community Health Sciences
Is a research scientist with 16 years of teaching and research experience and 10 years of administrative experience.
Prof. Richard Wadsworth primary professional role is the provision of advice on statistics and numerical methods particularly spatial data and the analysis of "messy" data. His research covers a range of topics from land cover mapping through to health statistics.
His interest in Sierra Leone started in 1981 where he was the "swamp development officer" for the Magbosi Integrated Agricultural Development Project until 1984. Immediately after the signing of the peace deal in 2002 he was able to win funds from the Darwin Initiative for a two year "technology transfer" project teaching the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems and Remote Sensing using satellite imagery to staff and graduate students at Fourah Bay College. Most of this teaching was based on the book he co-authored with Jo Treweek titled "GIS for Ecologists". After nearly 20 years with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, including 15 as head of the GIS section and as acting as biometrician he took an "early voluntary exit" in November 2011 and moved to Sierra Leone as an Adjunct Professor at Njala University. While based at Njala he has been successful with a third proposal to the Darwin Initiative (alternative livelihoods for communities affected by the new marine Protected Areas), from the German Ministry of Agriculture (on under-utilized species) and EPSRC (on "renewable energy for food processing"). He has also contributed to several shorter-term projects on the environment (land use mapping, biodiversity assessments), health (blood pressure among undergraduates), nutrient sensitive agriculture and renewable energy. He co-supervised Dr Okoni-Williams in his PhD on biodiversity and nutrient cycling in the bush-fallow ecosystem and am currently co-supervising several PhD students; John Koroma on the sustainability (or otherwise) of the charcoal business in Sierra Leone, Ibrahim Bakarr and Jonathan Johnney on biodiversity (rodents and bats) and Janatu Saidu on indigenous technical knowledge and the genetics of cassava. Using my own resources. He is attempting to restore two badly degraded sites at Masiaka (upland) and Mafuntha (lowland).
He has co-authored 45 journal papers, a book on Geographic Information Systems and many contract reports; according to Google Scholar my h* = 24 https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=9IW6pBIAAAAJ
Wadsworth R.A., Collingham Y.C., Willis S.G., Huntley B & Hulme P.E. 2000. Simulating the spread and management of alien riparian weeds: are they out of control? Journal of Applied Ecology 37 28-38 (cited by 162)
Comber A.J., Fisher P.F. & Wadsworth R.A. 2005. What is land cover? Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 32(2) 199 - 209 (cited 126)
Gerard, F., Bugar, G., Gregir, M., Halada, L., Hazeu, G., Huitu, H., Kohler, R., Kolar, J., Luque, S., …, Wadsworth, R.A., Ziese H., 2010. Land cover change in Europe between 1950 to 2000 determined employing aerial photography. Progress in Physical Geography, 34(2) 183-205 (cited by 88)
Comber A.J., Fisher P.F. & Wadsworth R.A. 2004. Integrating land-cover data with different ontologies: identifying change from inconsistency International Journal of Geographic Information Science 18(7), 691-708 (cited by 85)
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- Head of Department - Agricultural Economics
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- Research Centre ( SLURC )