The management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Wednesday directed the students of the institution to return to campus for the resumption of academic activities on January 25. The UNILAG’s Head of Media Unit, Mrs. Olufadeke Akinleye, who disclosed this in a statement, said the institution would commence online classes on that date. The
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The chairman of the federal government’s special Visitation Panel to probe the leadership crisis at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has on Thursday faulted the government’s decision to reinstate the embattled vice chancellor of the university, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe. It could be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari reinstated the embattled Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos
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The Suspended Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has been reinstated. It was gathered that there was a jubilation on the Akoka, Yaba campus of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) when news of the reinstatement of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as the institution’s Vice Chancellor filtered in last night. The Federal Government
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The University of Lagos UNILAG is to hold its 2020 post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) test for two weeks, beginning from Nov. 18, an official has said. The institution’s Registrar, Mr Oladejo Azeez, said in a statement on Thursday in Lagos that the aptitude test would end on Dec. 2. According to Azeez, online
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The Special Visitation Panel set up by the Federal Government to look into the management crisis at the University of Lagos has submitted a report of its findings . The government had set up the panel to look into the crisis rocking UNILAG , following the removal of its Vice -Chancellor , Prof . Oluwatoyin
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The Senate of the University of Lagos (Unilag) on Monday filed an application at the National Industrial Court to discontinue a suit challenging the removal of the university’s Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.Ogundipe was removed by the university’s Governing Council on Aug. 12.The council replaced him with Prof. Theophilus Soyombo as Acting VC.The defendants in
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President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council of University of Lagos, Dr Wale Babalakin, SAN and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, over the lingering crisis. The announcement was made on Friday night in a short statement signed by the spokesman of the Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Goong. Babalakin’s Governing
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Professor Theophilus Soyombo, the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, says he has resumed his new role. Recall that the Governing Council of the university had appointed Soyombo as the new VC on Thursday after Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe was sacked at its emergency meeting in Abuja, on Wednesday. But in an
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All staff unions in the University of Lagos on Thursday expressed their displeasure with the removal of the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, by the Governing Council of the school. The workers, under the aegis of the Joint Staff Union, JSU, made this known at a Congress they held to state their position on
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All the industrial unions in the University of Lagos, UNILAG, operating under the aegis of Joint Staff Union, JSU, are currently holding a Congress where the issue of the sack of the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, by the Governing Council is the main item on the agenda. Our correspondent, who was on the campus
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The embattled University of Lagos (UNILAG), Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe has described his removal from office as false. He maintained that he’s still the vice chancellor of the university. This was contained in a statement following the Registrar’s announcement of the Governing Council’s decision to sack him. Ogundipe insisted that his removal was a figment
Read moreProfessor Olawatoyin Ogundipe, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has been sacked by the governing council of the institution. It was learnt that his removal was announced during meeting of the Governing Council of the institution which held at the National Universities Commission (NUC) building in Abuja today. The meeting was presided over
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Justice was yesterday served on Akin Baruwa, a former ad-hoc lecturer of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), who was sentenced to 21-years imprisonment for raping an 18-year old female admission seeker. Ruling on the case, Justice Josephine Oyefeso of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja described the convict’s actions as heinous and that his incarceration should
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