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UNILAG: Buhari Hailed For Removing VC Ogundipe, Babalakin

August 23, 2020 10:01 am

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his decision on the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

On Friday, Buhari ordered the Governing Council Chairman, Wale Babalakin and the Vice Chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, to vacate their positions.

CACOL Director of Administration, Tola Oresanwo, in a statement on Sunday, said this would calm frayed nerves at the institution.

CACOL stressed that the presidential directive was needed to stop the crisis from getting out of control.

Read Also: UNILAG: Buhari Orders VC Ogundipe, Babalakin To Step Aside

“We have always believed in the principle of University Autonomy

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UNILAG Council Followed Due Process To Remove VC – Babalakin

August 15, 2020 4:52 am

Pro-chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and chairman of governing council Wale Babalakin has said that due process was followed in the removal of Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as vice-chancellor of the institution.

Since Ogundipe’s removal was announced on Wednesday, several bodies have condemned the method used in removing the vice-chancellor.

Read Also: UNILAG Senate, Staff Unions, Reject New VC

Mr Babalakin however told journalists at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja on Friday that the “focal minority” opposed to Ogundipe’s removal benefitted from the alleged corruption under him.

“The confusion is that most people don’t how governing council operates. There

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UNILAG Senate, Staff Unions, Reject New VC

August 14, 2020 7:58 am

The Senate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, and all its four staff unions, on Thursday, jointly kicked against the appointment of a new vice-chancellor for the university, saying the office is not vacant.

They also called on President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the visitor to the university to prevail on the chairman of the governing council, Dr Wale Babalakin, on the matter, so as not to degenerate to chaos nor breakdown of law and order in the university.

They said vice-chancellor of UNILAG and any other university in a sane society could not just be removed from …

UNILAG Constitutes Probe Panel On Sexual Harassment Cases

UNILAG Announces Acting Vice-Chancellor

August 13, 2020 7:08 am

The management of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, has announced that Professor Theophilus Omololu Soyombo of the Faculty of Social Sciences has been appointed as the acting the Vice-Chancellor of the University.

This is coming after the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olawatoyin Ogundipe, was sacked by the governing council of the institution during a meeting which was presided over by its Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Dr. Wale Babalakin on Wednesday.

Following the development, Ogundipe in a terse statement, had declared that the council’s decision “is untrue and a figment of its imagination.”

He also insisted that he remains the Vice-Chancellor of …

UNILAG: How Fake Lecturer Collected ₦250,000 For Admission

January 3, 2020 11:17 am

The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned a 39-year-old fake lecturer, Isaac Obi, in an Ojo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

Obi is charged with three counts of false pretence, fraud and stealing, NAN reports.

The prosecutor, Insp. Simon Uche, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Nov. 1, 2019 in Lagos.

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He alleged that the defendant presented himself as lecturer from the University of Lagos to one Lucky Ikeduba.

The prosecution also alleged that the accused lied to Ikeduba that he can secure admission into the university.

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UNILAG Constitutes Probe Panel On Sexual Harassment Cases

October 10, 2019 2:56 am

The University of Lagos, Akoka, has set up a panel to investigate two of its lecturers accused of sexually harassing undercover reporters purportedly seeking admission and change the course of study in the institution.

Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Languages and Integrated Studies, Faculty of Arts, and Dr Samuel Oladipo of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, were caught on video in a British Broadcasting Corporation documentary sexually harassing undercover reporters, who sought favour from them.

The institution had announced the suspension of Igbeneghu on Monday, while Oladipo was suspended on Tuesday.

The UNILAG …

BBC ‘SexforGrades’ UNILAG Cold Room Full Video Is Out

October 9, 2019 7:48 am

SexForGrades The BBC report is part of a year-long investigation into sexual harassment by professors at the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana.

The University of Lagos which says it has a zero-tolerance policy toward sexual harassment has suspended Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu following the allegation against him.

A statement signed by Principal Assistant Registrar (Communication Unit), Mrs. Taiwo Oloyede said the university “dissociates itself totally from this act(s) and any inappropriate behaviour of staff with female students and vice versa.”

“As a reputable Institution and one of the foremost Universities in Nigeria and sub-Sahara Africa, we are highly …

Two Unilag scholars attract €1,200,000 research grant

September 1, 2019 1:00 am

Two scholars from the University of Lagos have attracted a total of €1200,000, pounds (N540,000,000 million) for research.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the grants were from the United Kingdom Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund.

The scholars are Dr Sunday Adebisi, Director, African Research Universities Alliance ARUA Centre of Excellence in Unemployment and Skills Development, and Prof. Timothy Nubi, Director, Centre for Urbanisation and Habitable Cities.

Adebisi secured the grant for Partnership, Research and Capacity Building for Youth Unemployment Solutions in Africa while Nubi got the grant for African Research Network for Urbanisation and Habitable …

Court to hear demolition suit against UNILAG on Sept. 30

July 4, 2019 12:07 am

Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed September 30, for hearing in a suit against the University of Lagos, (UNILAG) and two others, over the alleged wrongful seizure of property and rights’ infringement.

The applicant in the suit before Justice Mohammed Liman, is Mr Emmanuel Ofoegbu, a Lagos-based lawyer.

Joined as respondents are; Dr Yemi Oke, UNILAG, and one Mr Oluwafemi Adetiba.

The applicant filed the suit through his counsel Ogedi Ogu, claiming the sum of N50 million against respondents, as compensation for alleged forceful seizure of property of his law office at 366, Murtala Mohammed Way, Yaba.

The applicant …