No fewer than 16 Professors from different areas of specialisations and institutions are jostling to emerge as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan, The Nation learnt on Saturday. The new VC, when elected, will assume office for a single tenure of five years. A Town-Hall meeting organised by the UI Community Forum tagged “The Voice of … Read more
Randy Vice-Chancellor threatens to withdraw student-girlfriends from school if they disclose his name in an investigation. The Vice-chancellor of the Umaru Musa Yar’dua University, Katsina State, Professor Sanusi Mamman, has reportedly threatened to withdraw his girlfriend from the university if she discloses that she had ever known him, EkohotBlog reports. The ‘randy’ VC, who is … Read more
“It is not a witch-hunting exercise. It is normal and expected and definitely…” EKOHOTBLOG reports that the governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has concluded plans to set up a Visitation Panel to look into the affairs of the Lagos State University (LASU) from 2009 till date The move to probe the … Read more
A new Vice-Chancellor of LASU has been appointed. EKOHOTBLOG reports that Prof Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello has been appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU). The new LASU VC, EKOHOTBLOG reports, is the wife of the Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tunji Bello. Ibiyemi, a Professor of Physiology, had … Read more
LASU Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, says the pioneer Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University, Prof. Folabi Olumide, is dead. Prof. Fagbohun, who confirmed this on Friday in a press statement, added that he died at 81. The statement was titled, ‘LASU announces the passing away of its Pioneer Vice-Chancellor, professor Folabi Olumide at 81 years’. … Read more
The University of Lagos Governing Council, led by the interim chairman, Dr John Momoh, has confirmed Prof. Folasade Ogunsola as the acting Vice-Chancellor of the institution. Her nomination was approved in a virtual meeting organized by the Governing Council on Tuesday, August 25. The inauguration of the visitor’s panel will hold in Abuja on Wednesday. … Read more
The embattled Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, (UNILAG) Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has headed for the court over his removal from office by the university governing board. It was gathered that Ogundipe briefed leading constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN, to head to court and challenge his alleged illegal removal … Read more
The attention of the University of Lagos (Unilag) management has been drawn to the ‘Notice to the General Public on the Removal of the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos’; dated August 12, 2020 and signed by Oladejo Azeez, Esq, Registrar and Secretary to Council, stating that the current Vice Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin T. Ogundipe, FAS … Read more
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has fired the Vice-Chancellor of the Kogi State University, Ayangba, Prof Mohammed Abdulkadir. A statement by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Folasade Ayoade in Lokoja on Tuesday, also announced the removal of Professor Mohammed Atureta as the Rector of the Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja. Both Abdulkadir and … Read more
The Vice Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU) in Abia State, Prof Francis Otunta has landed in trouble after a member of the Governing Council accused of impregnating a 300 level Accounting student of MOUAU The accuser, Dr Nelson O’Amanze Udenze revealed this accusation via a petition to The Honourable Minister for … Read more