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  BREAKING: UNILAG Senate appoints new Acting Vice Chancellor August 24, 2020 Mojeed Alabi Unilag senate house [PHOTO CREDIT: unilag.edu.ng ] The Senate of the  University of Lagos   (UNILAG), Akoka, has elected the deputy vice-chancellor in charge of development services, Folasade Ogunsola, as the institution’s acting vice-chancellor. She is the first female to be so appointed in the history of the 58-year-old ivory institution. Mrs Ogunsola, a professor of medical microbiology and first child of Nigeria’s first professor of Geography, Akin Mabogunje, was also the first female provost of the university’s college of medicine, Idi-Araba. She defeated her opponent and a deputy vice-chancellor in charge of management services, Ben Oghojafor, with a wide margin. She scored 135 votes as against Oghojafor’s 31 among the senate members. A total of 167 professors were accredited for voting while one vote was voided, PREMIUM TIMES learnt. This newspaper earlier reported that the s...

UNILAG: Illegalities of Visitation Panel and Its Terms of Reference August 24, 2020 Yunus Abdulsalam The University of Lagos saga began with the removal of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe on Tuesday, the 12th of August. There was uproar in various sections of the community that due process was not followed in the removal of the said Vice-Chancellor. The allegations made against the Vice-Chancellor were so grave and totally unbecoming of the head of any institution in Nigeria, not to talk of the Vice-Chancellor of a University that is responsible for moulding the character of students in the University. Of very great importance is that the Vice- Chancellor has not made any issue of the allegations by the Governing Council namely: (a) he allegedly withdrew N112million to renovate his house and those of his accomplices, (b) that he allegedly forged documents in the process of appointing the Vice-Chancellor, (c) That he collected security votes in the University of Lagos, or...

  Orji Kalu commends FG for establishing ultra-modern diagnostic centre in Umuahia By NAN |   21 August 2020   |   11:17 am   Orji Kalu Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr Orji Kalu, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the establishment of an ultra-modern diagnostic centre at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Abia. Kalu in a letter of appreciation to the President, said that the newly commissioned project would reduce medical tourism by providing access to quality healthcare services. Advertisement Advertisement He said that the project funded by the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) was expected to provide real-time diagnostic services to patients in the South East and South South regions. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the 5.5 million-dollar centre was virtually commissioned on Tuesday to raise the bar in the quality and standard of diagnostic services in the two regions for the benefit of Nigerians. Describing it as a legacy pr...