Mr. Adewale Bakare is an experienced human resource professional, skilled in team-building and harnessing human resources for operational efficiency to achieve corporate objectives.

He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree B. A. Education (Economics) in 1999 from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Educational Administration and Planning at Nasarawa State University, Keffi.

He was inducted as a Doctoral Fellow by the Chartered Institute of Human Resource Management.

Mr. Bakare joined the services of the National Universities Commission on 13th February 2002 as Personnel Officer II and was deployed to the Establishment Division of the then Department of Finance and Administration. For the next two (2) years, his engagements included liaising with the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation for advice on the Public Service Rules and Regulations, processing staff postings and staff requests for conversion, confirmation, and resignation of appointment, as well as transfer of service to other organisations.

Mr. Bakare’s job duties and engagements became higher between June 2004 – August 2005, as Personnel Officer II/Departmental Personnel Officer (Finance & Administration), where he was saddled with the responsibility of processing personnel matters such as promotion, confirmation of appointment, annual leave, and casual leave, providing secretarial services at Departmental meetings, coordinating Departmental reports to the Management Committee, as well as processing monthly cash imprest for the maintenance of official vehicles.

To his credit, as an astute administrator, Mr. Bakare, between August 2006 – December 2008, as Personnel Officer I, SERVICOM, he was appointed as Personal Assistant to the then Executive Secretary, Professor Julius A. Okojie, OON, scheduling appointments for the Executive Secretary, drafting responses to routine correspondences, facilitating the Chief Executive’s outreach efforts by contacting people and places, as well as handling all necessary arrangements for the Chief Executive’s attendance at official functions.

Similar engagements and many more were carried out by Mr. Bakare, between January 2009 – December 2011 as Senior Personnel Officer/Charter Desk Officer, SERVICOM, with multiple tasks of guiding the Departments in the formulation of their Local Service Charters, liaising with Departmental Desk Officers for their input while formulating the Integrated Service Charter for the Commission, liaising with the Service Improvement Desk Officer in monitoring the review of the NUC Service Charter, as well as coordinating the day-to-day itinerary of the Executive Secretary.

Mr. Bakare was promoted to Chief Personnel Officer in 2018 and subsequently posted to the Corporate Services Division. Since then, he has contributed meaningfully to the coordination and provision of secretarial services for meetings of the Executive Secretary, including Courtesy Visits, Roundtable with Directors, as well as meetings of the Management Committee and the Board of the Commission. While in this line of duty, he also supervised preparatory activities for official meetings within the Commission’s Secretariat, vetting draft Minutes and Reports of official meetings for consideration by the Head of Division, liaising with relevant directorates to provide logistics and other services.

In recognition of his dedication to the services of the Commission, Mr. Bakare was promoted to the rank of Deputy Director, Corporate Services Division in January, 2022 with responsibilities to among other things, manage the day-to-day operations of the Corporate Services Division, coordinate the provision of administrative and secretarial services for meetings of the Executive Secretary, the NUC Management Committee, NUC Management Steering Committee and the Board of the Commission.
He also ensured effective coverage of official engagements of the Executive Secretary with the Commission’s Strategic Partners, including Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities and Heads of Parastatals, as well as liaised with other Directorates in ensuring the effective coordination of tasks that might require synergy.

Mr. Bakare was appointed Acting Director, Directorate of the Executive Secretary’s Office on 28 November 2025. This comes with the full responsibility of managing the weekly itinerary of the Executive Secretary’s Office, coordinating preparatory activities leading to the successful implementation of the activities/projects of the Executive Secretary’s Office, while also coordinating activities of the Divisions for the successful execution of the routine administrative duties of the Executive Secretary, supervising the provision of secretarial services to the NUC Board and Management, including all Standing and Ad-hoc Committees of the Board and Management.

Further to his credit, Mr. Bakare has been in several high-powered committees of the Federal Government, including as the Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education’s Mahmud Yayale Ahmed-led Federal Government Tertiary Institutions Expanded Negotiation Committee; Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education Ministerial Committee on NELFUND for the Standardisation of Administrative & Other Charges to Achieve Uniformity in Transactions.

He is currently a representative of NUC in the Membership of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, Abuja; National Technical & Mirror Committee on Human Resources Management; McPherson University, Seriki, Sotayo, Ajebo, serving in the Governing Council Fact-finding Committee on Allegation of Denial of Promotion and also a Member of National Universities Commission’s
Committee on Staff Manning, among others.

The Acting Director, Office of the Executive Secretary, has attended many conferences both locally and internationally and has presented several papers at various trainings and workshops, including within the National Universities Commission, and has received many awards to his credit.

Mr. Bakare was formally inducted as a Doctoral Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Human Resource Management (CIHRM) on 13th December 2025.

Division is headed by Barr. Pascal Eruaga (Deputy Director)

Units

1. Solicitors Unit
2. Litigation/Insurance Unit
3. Legal Research Unit

Head of Division is Mr. Musa Iliyasu (Deputy Director)

Units

1. SERVICOM Unit
2. sensitisation and Advocacy Unit
3. Investigations and Reporting Unit

Division is Headed by Mr. Adamu Mohammed (Deputy Director)

Units

1. Inspection and Investigation Unit
2. Pre-payment Audit Unit

Division is Headed by Mr. Jubril Momoh (Deputy Director)

Units

1. Recurrent Procurement Unit
2. Capital Procurement Unit

Division is Headed by Ms. Chinyere Ekechukwu (Deputy Director)

Units

1. Executive Secretary’s Immediate Office Unit
2. Board Secretariat Unit
3. Management Secretariat Unit

Division is Headed by Engr Dr. Adetunji Sowunmi (Ag.)

Units

1. Infrastructure Development & Maintenance Unit
2. Campus Planning & Geographic and Information Systems (GIS)Unit

Division is Headed by Dr. Ayoteju Adetutu Ogun (Deputy Director)

 

Division is Headed by Dr. Abubakar Tanko Mohammed (Ag.)