Professor Olufemi Peters

Professor Olufemi Peters  

Fellow of the Chemical Society of Nigeria and first Vice President of the African Council for Distance Education (ACDE).

Professor Olufemi Peters is a graduate of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria and the Victoria University of Manchester (UMIST), England respectively. He started his teaching career at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria as an Assistant Lecturer from where he joined the services of the National Open University of Nigeria in 2003. He became a Professor of Chemistry in 2006.

Dr Peters’s teaching career has spanned over 35 years with broad experiences and expertise in degradation and stabilization of polymeric materials and environmental assessment of degradable plastics. He served as External Examiner in Chemistry for a number of Doctoral thesis and was at various times, panel member for Accreditation exercises for the educational regulatory bodies in Nigeria at all levels of study. At the National Open University of Nigeria, Peters has developed responsibilities for Quality Assurance processes, Policy development and enactments, and emerging technologies for content delivery.

He has led several study teams from NOUN to ODL Institutions such as, the UNISA, International College Group and Western Cape Learning Centre (Parrow), Cape Town, Indira Ghandi National Open University, New Delhi, National Institute for Open Schooling (NIOS), India and the University of London. Professor Peters has served as Lead Consultant for the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver, Canada to many universities wishing to dualise mode of teaching and learning in their respective institutions.

Aside from the ODL landscape, Peters also served a tenured appointment as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stored Product Research Institute, (NSPRI), Ilorin, an agency of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Nigeria for 5 years where he led a team of researchers to design and construct a 5-tonne parabolic solar dryer for grains, fruits, and vegetables. At NSPRI, he also led the processes that patented two of the institution's research findings, one of which is NSPRIDUST®, a Diatomaceous Earth (DE) useful as a non-toxic grain 16-month protectant. Professor Olufemi Peters is a member of a number of professional bodies and a Fellow of the Chemical Society of Nigeria and first Vice President, of the African Council for Distance Education (ACDE).