Professor Uju Clara Umo is a professor of Language Education in the Department of Arts Education, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria. Her research interests include skills for effective public speech, use of games in teaching and learning of indigenous Language, and Issues in Language Education.
As an integral part of the administrative arm of the University, its history is subsumed in the history of the University. To this extent the birth of the University marked the inception of the Bursary Department.