1. Welcome Address by the HOD
The introduction of economics as a teaching subject at the Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo will go a long way in building skilled manpower that will help the entire citizenry of the nation in enhancing the growth and development of Nigeria’s economy. The Department therefore strives to achieve four key objectives as stipulated in the NCE Minimum Standards (2020 edition) and in line with the teaching of economics in secondary schools. These objectives are to prepare recipients for good citizenship, provide intellectual training which would create critical thinking, prepare recipients for vocation, and acquisition of economic competence.
It is in this delight that the HOD welcomes all our prospective and stale students, parents, the College community and other stakeholders to our Department, and seeks the cooperation of all and sundry in the realization of the aforementioned objectives.
2. About the Department
The Department is located within the serene environment of the School of Secondary Education (Arts and Social Sciences Programmes) of the Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria. Some of the core activities or primary assignment that take place in the Department include teaching of various courses as stipulated in the 2020 revised minimum standard of NCCE, conducting researches, supervising examinations, teaching practice and students’ projects, and engaging in community services. The Department offers courses such as principles of economics (I and II), mathematics for economics, micro and macro economics, public finance, etc, for its NCE programme. In addition, the Department also engages in sandwich degree programme in affiliation with Lagos State University (LASU) since 2018. We are delighted to make it known that the Department is blessed with qualified and friendly academic scholars endowed in different areas of economics and non-teaching staffs, who are imbued with the fear of God and ready to render their maximum supports. There is no doubt that our students will experience a life-changing impact while on Campus here.
3. History of the Department
The Department of Economics of the Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo was established on the 6th of November, 2008. The Department started with two eminent academic scholars namely, Mr Issa Wahab and Dr. Agbolade Babatunde Giwa, seventy-two NCE I students and fifty pre-NCE students. The Department got its approval from the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) on 16th September 2010 and respectively produced its first, second and third sets of graduates in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013, and has never failed in rolling out its graduates every academic year. The Department gained its first full accreditation by NCCE in 2015 with the second one in the year 2020 while preparing for the third one this year 2025. At present, the Department boasts of sixteen eminently qualified academic staffs while the total students’ population is over three hundred and twenty (320).
4. Philosophy:
Economics is a subject that is desired by all citizens either as producers or as consumers so that they would acquire knowledge of the economic system and how to work. The insight derivable from the study of economics not only frees the minds of the recipients from the shackles of destiny and chance events but also equips them with solutions to the problems of our country. Furthermore, it enables the development of critical thinking required for making logical contribution towards economic growth and development.
Vision Statement: The Department of Economics will be a community of choice and the regional leader in the acquisition, study and application of economics, and recognizes for academic excellence and for contributing to overall development.
Mission Statement: The primary aim of the Department of Economics is to provide high quality NCE graduates of economics.
5. Administration
The Department is headed by the Head of Department (H.O.D), currently Dr. W.O. Abimbola, while other staff and officers assist in coordinating one assignment or the other. The organogram below illustrates the hierarchy of the leadership, administration and the line of communication in the Department:
6. Academic Information
i. Programmes Offered: The Department currently engages in NCE programme issuing NCE certificate at the end of the three-year programme. It also hopes to start B.Ed (Economics) programme starting from September 2025 with the recently approved dual mandate programme granted all Federal Colleges of Education in Nigeria.
ii. Admission Requirements: The requirements for admission into the NCE programme of the Department are as stated in the NCE minimum standards (2020 edition). That is, a Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) or G.C.E ‘O’ level with nothing less than credit passes in five subjects including Mathematics, English Language and Economics which must be at not more than two sittings. In addition, all candidates to be considered for admission must fulfill the selection examination criteria by an accredited body such as the UTME by JAMB. The UTME cut-offs are as always stipulated by JAMB in conjunction with the College Management every admission period.
For the B.Ed (Economics) commencing in September 2025, the requirements are as stated by the NUC guidelines.
iii. Curriculum/Course Structure
The minimum credits required for graduation are:
a. Education – 30 credits
b. General Studies courses - 18 credits
c. Teaching Practice – 06 Credits
d. Economics Courses – 32 credits
e. Project (EDU 323) - 06 Credits
Economics as a single major may be combined with any of the following special area courses: CBD, SGT, SHI, SID, SLD, SPH, SRE or SVI.
iv. Grading and Assessment Policies
All courses are graded in a scale of 100% scores in total with 0-39 marks for F (Fail), 40-44 marks for “E” (Pass). 45-49 marks for “D” (Pass), 50-59 marks for “C” (Pass), 60-69 for a “B” (Pass) while 70 marks and above is for “A”. The total of 100% scores for each of the courses is broken down into 40% for Continuous Assessment (CA) with attendance carrying 10% of this 40% CA, another 10% for assignment with 20% for tests while the remaining 60% of the total 100% is for examination conducted at the end of each semester.
7. Others
i. Academic Staff: As stated earlier, the Department has about 16 well trained and professionally certified academic staffs from assistant lecturers to chief lecturers whose areas of specialization cut across different fields of economics. The staff list as at May 2025 is as listed in the table below:
S/N NAME RANK SEX QUALIFICATIONS
1. Dr. A.B. Giwa Chief Lecturer M PhD, M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), FCA, PGDE,TRCN
2. Dr. S.A. Rauff Principal Lecturer M PhD, M.Phil, M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), PGDE, TRCN, Diploma in Computer
3. Dr. K.F. Osundahunsi Principal Lecturer M PhD, M.Sc, B.Sc Ed (Economics), NCE, TRCN
4. Dr. W.O. Abimbola Senior Lecturer M PhD, M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), PDE, TRCN, NIM, Diploma in Computer, Comptia+
5. Dr. A.D. Odejide Senior Lecturer M PhD, M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), PDE, TRCN
6. Dr. O. Odeniyi Lecturer I F PhD, B.Ed (Economics), TRCN, Computer Literacy
7. N.A. Sheu Lecturer I M M.Sc, B.Sc Ed (Economics), NCE, TRCN
8. Dr. M.A. Ezeudo Lecturer I M PhD, M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), PGDE, TRCN
9. S.K. Adedeji Lecturer I M M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), PDE, TRCN
10 N.A. Lawal Lecturer I M M.Sc, B.Sc Ed, NCE (Economics), TRCN, Computer Literacy
11 A.D. Mustapha Lecturer II M B.Sc (Economics), PDE, TRCN, Diploma in Computer
12. O.A. Biose Lecturer II M B.Sc (Economics), TRCN
13. S.B. Oladejo Lecturer III M B.A Ed (Economics), TRCN
14 S.B. Oyekola Lecturer III M M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), ND, PDE, TRCN
15 I.A. Akangbe Assistant Lecturer M B.Sc Ed (Economics), NCE, TRCN
16. S.O. Adebimpe Assistant Lecturer M B.Sc Ed (Economics), ND (Statistics), TRCN
ii. Non-Academic Staff: In addition to the above strength of academic staff mentioned, the Department also boasts of some non-teaching staffs.
iii. Facilities and Resources
The Department has the following classroom structures within the Complex:
• The ETF Lecture Hall (Old Eco Hall) which accommodates about one hundred and seventy-five (175) students.
• New Economics Lecture Hall with capacity of about three hundred and thirty students (330) students.
• One Economics Resource Room with capacity of about thirty students at once, equipped with facilities such as computers, analytical packages for economic research and analyses, and others.
• The Department also has an administrative building housing the HOD and the secretary’s office.
• In addition, the department has about 11 staff offices and several conveniences for both staffs and students.
iv. Announcements:
• The Department is glad to announce the exciting news of commencing bachelor’s degree as from September, 2025, in accordance with the Federal Government’s dual mode directive.
• It is interesting to announce that our students are having their NESA elections in the month of June, 2025.
v. Upcoming Events:
All 100 and 200 level students are commencing their departmental tests from Wednesday 28th May to Thursday 5th June, 2025; and immediately starting their CBT and examinations the same month of June, 2025 while marking and recording commence thereafter.
vi. Contact Information
Please direct all enquiries to the HOD on +2348033570898
The introduction of economics as a teaching subject at the Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo will go a long way in building skilled manpower that will help the entire citizenry of the nation in enhancing the growth and development of Nigeria’s economy. The Department therefore strives to achieve four key objectives as stipulated in the NCE Minimum Standards (2020 edition) and in line with the teaching of economics in secondary schools. These objectives are to prepare recipients for good citizenship, provide intellectual training which would create critical thinking, prepare recipients for vocation, and acquisition of economic competence.
It is in this delight that the HOD welcomes all our prospective and stale students, parents, the College community and other stakeholders to our Department, and seeks the cooperation of all and sundry in the realization of the aforementioned objectives.
2. About the Department
The Department is located within the serene environment of the School of Secondary Education (Arts and Social Sciences Programmes) of the Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria. Some of the core activities or primary assignment that take place in the Department include teaching of various courses as stipulated in the 2020 revised minimum standard of NCCE, conducting researches, supervising examinations, teaching practice and students’ projects, and engaging in community services. The Department offers courses such as principles of economics (I and II), mathematics for economics, micro and macro economics, public finance, etc, for its NCE programme. In addition, the Department also engages in sandwich degree programme in affiliation with Lagos State University (LASU) since 2018. We are delighted to make it known that the Department is blessed with qualified and friendly academic scholars endowed in different areas of economics and non-teaching staffs, who are imbued with the fear of God and ready to render their maximum supports. There is no doubt that our students will experience a life-changing impact while on Campus here.
3. History of the Department
The Department of Economics of the Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo was established on the 6th of November, 2008. The Department started with two eminent academic scholars namely, Mr Issa Wahab and Dr. Agbolade Babatunde Giwa, seventy-two NCE I students and fifty pre-NCE students. The Department got its approval from the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) on 16th September 2010 and respectively produced its first, second and third sets of graduates in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013, and has never failed in rolling out its graduates every academic year. The Department gained its first full accreditation by NCCE in 2015 with the second one in the year 2020 while preparing for the third one this year 2025. At present, the Department boasts of sixteen eminently qualified academic staffs while the total students’ population is over three hundred and twenty (320).
4. Philosophy:
Economics is a subject that is desired by all citizens either as producers or as consumers so that they would acquire knowledge of the economic system and how to work. The insight derivable from the study of economics not only frees the minds of the recipients from the shackles of destiny and chance events but also equips them with solutions to the problems of our country. Furthermore, it enables the development of critical thinking required for making logical contribution towards economic growth and development.
Vision Statement: The Department of Economics will be a community of choice and the regional leader in the acquisition, study and application of economics, and recognizes for academic excellence and for contributing to overall development.
Mission Statement: The primary aim of the Department of Economics is to provide high quality NCE graduates of economics.
5. Administration
The Department is headed by the Head of Department (H.O.D), currently Dr. W.O. Abimbola, while other staff and officers assist in coordinating one assignment or the other. The organogram below illustrates the hierarchy of the leadership, administration and the line of communication in the Department:
6. Academic Information
i. Programmes Offered: The Department currently engages in NCE programme issuing NCE certificate at the end of the three-year programme. It also hopes to start B.Ed (Economics) programme starting from September 2025 with the recently approved dual mandate programme granted all Federal Colleges of Education in Nigeria.
ii. Admission Requirements: The requirements for admission into the NCE programme of the Department are as stated in the NCE minimum standards (2020 edition). That is, a Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) or G.C.E ‘O’ level with nothing less than credit passes in five subjects including Mathematics, English Language and Economics which must be at not more than two sittings. In addition, all candidates to be considered for admission must fulfill the selection examination criteria by an accredited body such as the UTME by JAMB. The UTME cut-offs are as always stipulated by JAMB in conjunction with the College Management every admission period.
For the B.Ed (Economics) commencing in September 2025, the requirements are as stated by the NUC guidelines.
iii. Curriculum/Course Structure
The minimum credits required for graduation are:
a. Education – 30 credits
b. General Studies courses - 18 credits
c. Teaching Practice – 06 Credits
d. Economics Courses – 32 credits
e. Project (EDU 323) - 06 Credits
Economics as a single major may be combined with any of the following special area courses: CBD, SGT, SHI, SID, SLD, SPH, SRE or SVI.
iv. Grading and Assessment Policies
All courses are graded in a scale of 100% scores in total with 0-39 marks for F (Fail), 40-44 marks for “E” (Pass). 45-49 marks for “D” (Pass), 50-59 marks for “C” (Pass), 60-69 for a “B” (Pass) while 70 marks and above is for “A”. The total of 100% scores for each of the courses is broken down into 40% for Continuous Assessment (CA) with attendance carrying 10% of this 40% CA, another 10% for assignment with 20% for tests while the remaining 60% of the total 100% is for examination conducted at the end of each semester.
7. Others
i. Academic Staff: As stated earlier, the Department has about 16 well trained and professionally certified academic staffs from assistant lecturers to chief lecturers whose areas of specialization cut across different fields of economics. The staff list as at May 2025 is as listed in the table below:
S/N NAME RANK SEX QUALIFICATIONS
1. Dr. A.B. Giwa Chief Lecturer M PhD, M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), FCA, PGDE,TRCN
2. Dr. S.A. Rauff Principal Lecturer M PhD, M.Phil, M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), PGDE, TRCN, Diploma in Computer
3. Dr. K.F. Osundahunsi Principal Lecturer M PhD, M.Sc, B.Sc Ed (Economics), NCE, TRCN
4. Dr. W.O. Abimbola Senior Lecturer M PhD, M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), PDE, TRCN, NIM, Diploma in Computer, Comptia+
5. Dr. A.D. Odejide Senior Lecturer M PhD, M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), PDE, TRCN
6. Dr. O. Odeniyi Lecturer I F PhD, B.Ed (Economics), TRCN, Computer Literacy
7. N.A. Sheu Lecturer I M M.Sc, B.Sc Ed (Economics), NCE, TRCN
8. Dr. M.A. Ezeudo Lecturer I M PhD, M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), PGDE, TRCN
9. S.K. Adedeji Lecturer I M M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), PDE, TRCN
10 N.A. Lawal Lecturer I M M.Sc, B.Sc Ed, NCE (Economics), TRCN, Computer Literacy
11 A.D. Mustapha Lecturer II M B.Sc (Economics), PDE, TRCN, Diploma in Computer
12. O.A. Biose Lecturer II M B.Sc (Economics), TRCN
13. S.B. Oladejo Lecturer III M B.A Ed (Economics), TRCN
14 S.B. Oyekola Lecturer III M M.Sc, B.Sc (Economics), ND, PDE, TRCN
15 I.A. Akangbe Assistant Lecturer M B.Sc Ed (Economics), NCE, TRCN
16. S.O. Adebimpe Assistant Lecturer M B.Sc Ed (Economics), ND (Statistics), TRCN
ii. Non-Academic Staff: In addition to the above strength of academic staff mentioned, the Department also boasts of some non-teaching staffs.
iii. Facilities and Resources
The Department has the following classroom structures within the Complex:
• The ETF Lecture Hall (Old Eco Hall) which accommodates about one hundred and seventy-five (175) students.
• New Economics Lecture Hall with capacity of about three hundred and thirty students (330) students.
• One Economics Resource Room with capacity of about thirty students at once, equipped with facilities such as computers, analytical packages for economic research and analyses, and others.
• The Department also has an administrative building housing the HOD and the secretary’s office.
• In addition, the department has about 11 staff offices and several conveniences for both staffs and students.
iv. Announcements:
• The Department is glad to announce the exciting news of commencing bachelor’s degree as from September, 2025, in accordance with the Federal Government’s dual mode directive.
• It is interesting to announce that our students are having their NESA elections in the month of June, 2025.
v. Upcoming Events:
All 100 and 200 level students are commencing their departmental tests from Wednesday 28th May to Thursday 5th June, 2025; and immediately starting their CBT and examinations the same month of June, 2025 while marking and recording commence thereafter.
vi. Contact Information
Please direct all enquiries to the HOD on +2348033570898