Prof. Mobolaji Ebenezer Aluko is a Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the pioneer Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. He was appointed to the position in February 2011 and completed a single five-year term successfully in February 2016. During that period, he presided over the growth of the university from virgin territory (200 hectares) to two campuses (a Main Campus and a Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Center), over sixty new completed and ongoing buildings, almost two-thousand students and over one thousand five-hundred staff, with all twelve initial academic programmes being accredited by the National Universities Commission in November 2015.