Faculty & Academic Members
Acrest Online Education classes are universal and are led by leading practitioners in their fields to provide students with real-world skills, enable critical thinking, and advance innovation.
Our faculty team has over 100 years of combined teaching, mentoring, and coaching experience and develops the course, guides and supervises students, and ensures that our students have an excellent learning experience.
Late Prof Samuel Abdullahi Booth
Founding Director
Omotayo Daud’ Alabi
Director & Head of International Programmes
PhD International Agribusiness and Value Chain Management (Candidate), Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Certificate in Business Sustainability Management. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
MSc Programme and Project Management, University of Chester, United Kingdom
PGC Sustainable Development, University of Exeter , United Kingdom.
Agriculture Extension and Management, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria.
Programme Curriculum & Quality Directorate
Our programs and courses go through extensive planning procedures and are assessed against cutting-edge academic curricula. Heads of schools, industry experts, and key personnel from the quality assurance division make up this directorate. Additionally, the directorate makes sure that our course satisfies the requirements stated by our accrediting organisations.
Prof. Johnson Otun
Member of Curriculum & Quality Control
Prof. Dele Abdurrahman Alabi
Head of School of Engineering
-Associate Professor. Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria. -PhD -Mechanical Engineering Universiti Putra Malaysia. -MSc. Mechanical Engineering Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria. -BSc. Mechanical Engineering Ahmadu Bello University Nigeri
Dr. Abdul – Rahman Sowa
Head of Business School
-Ph.D. in Public Administration, Njala University (Candidate)
-Doctor of Business Administration SMCU, Zurich, Switzerland
-Master of Science (MSc) in Development Studies with a bias in Development Economics
-Master of Education (M. Ed) bias in M&E- University of Sierra Leone
-Post Graduate Diploma in Education bias in Psychology and Child Development, University of Sierra Leone
-BSc (Hons) Chemistry- University of Sierra Leone
Femi Adeshina Bankole
Chief Accounting Officer
-MSc Financial Management. Kaduna State University, Nigeria. -BSc equivalent Pest Management. Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria. -Diploma in General Agriculture. Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria.
Dr. Lamin Kamara
Head of Development School
-PhD Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Reading, UK. -MSc Agriculture and Development. University of Reading, UK. -BSc (Hons) Agricultural Extension Njala University Sierra Leone. -Certificate, Contemporary Climate Change. University of Oxford, UK. -Certificate, Statistics. University of Reading
David Suale
Agribusiness & Agro Ecology
-MSc Soil Science, Njala University, Sierra Leone. -BSc (Hons) Agriculture, Njala University, Sierra Leone
Charles Hopkins
Project & NGO Management
-Master of Arts in International Relations and Diplomatic Studies, International Relations and Affairs. Kampala International University Uganda. -BSc. Sociology Methodist University Liberia. -Senior Resilience Advisor Tufts University Karamoja Resilience Support Unit
Vandi Sheriff
Project Management & Head of Agcrest Development Centre
-MSc Project Management, KROK University of Economics and Laws, Kyiv, Ukraine.
-Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Environment and Development, Njala University, Sierra Leone
PETEMAA .A. SHERIFF
Outreach and Investments
Bachelor of Arts (B.A) Fouray Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.
M.B.A. Impact Entrepreneurship, University of Makeni/Catholic University of Milan, Italy.
Gloria Uduak Ekpo
Adult Education & Gender
-M.Ed Adult Education. University of Lagos, Nigeria. -Postgraduate Diploma In Environmental Education. University Of Calabar -Nigeria. -B.A. (Hon) English/ Curriculum And Teaching. University Of Calabar, Nigeria
Dr. Pio Deng Soil Science
Professor at Upper Nile University South Sudan
PhD. Soil Science, MSc. Soil Science & B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture
Dr. Solomon Celso Kumudan Loya
Research Method & Agriculture
-PhD Crop Production, University of Khartoum, Khartoum Sudan. -MSc Crop Production, University of Gezira, Sudan. -BSc Crop Production, University of Khartoum, Sudan