 Following the expiration of a five-year single term of the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adifemi Bello has been appointed the Acting Vice-Chancellor designate of the Ocean State University. The announcement of Professor Bello was announced by the institution's Pro-Chancellor Malam Yusuf Ali at the Sheba campus of the institution. Yusuf Ali said the emergence of Professor Adifemi Bello as the acting VC was unanimously consented to by the institution's the governing council. Priority is emergence as the acting VC, Professor Adifemi Bello, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration and Development. When he was informed, addressed the council for a long time to recount personal reasons why you will not be able to accept the assignment. He therefore declined the appointment right on the floor of the council. Upon the occurrence of these unexpected tone of events, the council then appointed Professor Adifemi Adifemi Bello, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration and Development as the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University, effective from Friday 15 November 2021.