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  • Sanwo-Olu approves new Governing Councils for LASU, LASPOTECH, others (Full list)

    Sanwo-Olu approves new Governing Councils for LASU, LASPOTECH, others (Full list)

    Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the appointment of Chairmen and Governing Council members for the four State-owned Tertiary Institutions.

    The institutions are: Lagos State University (LASU), Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Lagos State Polytechnic and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED).

    In a statement signed by the Lagos State Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri- Okunola, the Governor said the tenure of Office of the newly appointed Governing Council members would take effect from 1st August 2020, following the expiration of the tenures of the former Governing Councils. The tenure of Office of the Institutions’ Chief Executive Officers shall remain as provided in relevant Laws.

    Importantly, the Head of Service noted that the tenure of the newly appointed Chancellor of the Lagos State University, Professor Gbolahan Elias, SAN, would become effective from 16 September 2020 when the tenure of the incumbent Chancellor, His Excellency Honourable Justice George Oguntade would have expired.

    Governor Sanwo-Olu thanked members of the outgoing Governing Councils for their commitment and meritorious service to the State.

    While congratulating the newly appointed Governing Councils members, he expressed his appreciation and delight at the willingness of the new appointees to serve the State and help build on the achievements of the outgoing Councils.

    He maintained that the newly appointed Governing Council Members had been carefully identified based on their individual track records in their respective professional fields, adding that he had no doubts about their capacity to move tertiary education in Lagos State to Greater Heights.

    The newly appointed Governing Council Members are:

    LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY (LASU)

    1. Professor Gbolahan Elias, SAN – Chancellor

    2. Prof. Adebayo Ninalowo – Pro-Chancellor/ Chairman

    3. Professor Shafiudeen Amuwo – Member

    4. Mrs. Adenike Yomi-Faseun – Member

    5. Dr. Adetugbobo Hakeem – Member

    6. Mrs. Sule Tolani – Member

    7. Mrs. Folasade Adesoye – Member

    8. Mr. Karl Tokun Toriola – Member

    9. Mr. Kunle Soname – Member

    10. Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii – Member

    11. Mr. Adebayo Akinsanya – Member

    12. Mrs. Mojisola Tolagbe Taiwo – Member

    13. Mrs. Morenike Williams – Member

    14. Mr. Anuoluwapo Esho – Member

    15. Mrs. Foluke Abdul-razaq – Member

    LAGOS STATE POLYTECHNIC

    1. Professor Rasheed Kola Ojikutu – Chairman

    2. Dr. (Mrs.) Awonuga, Abiola Olawunmi – Member

    3. Bldr. Saabi Olakunle Alaba – Member

    4. Mr. Habeeb Aileru – Member

    5. Prince Olusegun Ogunlewe – Member

    6. Mrs. Iyabo Kuteyi – Member

    ADENIRAN OGUNSANYA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (AOCOED)

    1. Prof. Nuru Olasupo – Chairman

    2. Mrs. Riskat Akiode – Member

    3. Dr. Olaolu Mudashiru – Member

    4. Mr. Wole Ajifowoke – Member

    MICHAEL OTEDOLA COLLEGE OF PRIMARY EDUCATION (MOCPED)

    1. Alhaja Sekinat Yusuf – Chairman

    2. Mrs. Victoria Mopelola Perigrino – Member

    3. Mrs. Folashade Agbalajobi – Member

    4. Hon. Toun Adediran – Member

    5. Mr. Johnbull Adebanjo – Member

    6. Dr. Waliu A. Ipaye – Member

  • Lockdown: LASU VC urges students to study online

    Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun (SAN), Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo has urged students of the institution to keep learning during the lockdown period by studying online.

    Fagbohun, who made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos, said that the university was putting in place online platforms for use by the students.

    He said that the platforms would include whatsapp, drop box, static pages on the varsity’s website, Google classroom and free conferences, among others.

    “Recently, LASU management had a meeting online with all deans of faculties, Provost of the LASU College of Medicine and the Dean, Post-Graduate School to agree on the modality for online lectures for our students.

    “We agreed that the final year students should be assigned their project work so that their supervisors can engage them while they are at home.

    “We also have a LASU assignment portal designed by LASU Computer Science Department for students and a Whatsapp platform to conduct tutorials for all the lecturers who will be engaged in the online teaching.

    “Tomorrow (April 10), we are having another meeting with all faculties on how far they have gone with the online lectures,” he said.

    Fagbohun said that the idea was to continually engage LASU students and keep them learning until school reopened.

    He was optimistic many of the students would engage the different platforms.

    The VC urged Nigerian students to abide by efforts of the federal and state governments to contain COVID-19 spread.

  • Just In: LASU postpones convocation indefinitely

    The 24th convocation ceremony of the Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo has been postponed indefinitely.

    The decision was in response to the rampaging coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19).

    It was taken at an emergency management meeting on Thursday.

    A top member of the university management told online medium PREMIUM TIMES, the school took the decision at about 1 pm on Thursday.

    The source was quoted as saying: “Yes, that is the final decision. The management meeting is still on but a conclusion has been reached on the convocation which is indefinite postponement.

    “The truth is that if we had decided to continue with our programmes, who would have loved to take the risk to attend among both the graduands and the dignitaries?

    “Thank God we have not recorded any case with a link to the university as at now, so the best thing to avoid it is to observe all the cautionary measures.”

  • Man who jumped into Lagos lagoon not our graduate – LASU

    Man who jumped into Lagos lagoon not our graduate – LASU

    The management of Lagos State University (LASU) has debunked reports that the deadDaibo Davies who jumped into Lagos lagoon was a graduate of the institution as reported by some media.

    The institution’s Coordinator, Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations, Mr. Ademola Adekoya addressed the misconception in a statement in Lagos on Thursday.
    According to him, the institution LASU does not currently run a programme in Quantity Surveying, the programme which the now late Davies reportedly studied.
    He said; “The attention of the management has been drawn to media reports stating that the young man, who jumped into the lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos recently, was a fresh graduate of Quantity Surveying from the Lagos State University.
    “While the university sympathises with the family and relations of the Davies on the unfortunate incident, we find it pertinent to correct the media reports crediting his studentship to LASU.
    “We enjoin the media to exercise more diligence in gathering their facts before publishing reports to avoid misleading the public,” Adekoya added.

  • BIZARRE! Boyfriend connived with mum, killed, ate LASU 400-level student

    A 400 level Theatre Arts student of Lagos State University (LASU), Favour Seun Daley Oladele, who was declared missing since the 8th of December 2019, has been found dead at Ikoyi Ile in Ikire, Osun state.

    Suspected to have conspired to kill Favour are her boyfriend Owolabi Adeeko, his mother Mrs. Adeeko and a Cherubim and Serephim prophet Segun Philips.

    They have all been arrested by the police.

    According to reports, the victim was first drugged by mother and son, before they took her to the prophet’s church.

    A pestle, wielded by Owolabi, was then used to smash an already weak Favour in the head thrice.

    The ‘prophet’ then proceeded to slit her throat, and opened up her body to remove the heart, tongue and other parts to perform money-making rituals for the Adeekos.

    Prophet Segun PHILLIP also admitted in his statement that he caught her open ,removed her heart and certain parts of Favours body to cook native stew for OWOLABI ADEEKO’S mother.

    The ‘prophet’ had charged N250000 for his service.

    Favour, sources said, had visited her parents that fateful weekend and was billed to return to school on the evening of Sunday, December 8 when she received telephone calls from Adeeko, her boyfriend of about two months, requesting that they should meet at an undisclosed location.

    Favour told her parents that she would stop to see a friend on her way to school and would call them on returning to school to prepare for her exams.

    When no phone calls came from her as she promised, the parents began to try her line.

    In vain, they tried to reach her for two days.

    They soon grew agitated and decided to physically visit her in school to be assured that all was well with her.

    But they were shocked when they were told at the university that she had not been seen.

    They were advised to report to the police immediately.

    They headed to the Mowe Police Station where the process to locate her started.

    The police began by tracking her phone.

    A source said: “The police located her phone around Oyo and Osun States. By then, her SIM card had been removed and another card inserted in the phone.

    “A C&S prophet Segun Philips was the one using the phone. His church is located at Ikoyi Ile near Ikire, Osun State.

    “So, the police from Mowe moved there on December 24; he was arrested and he confessed that Owolabi Adeeko and his mother brought Favour to be used for rituals.

    “The prophet also confessed that Owolabi had been staying with him for the past 17 days and he gave information on the whereabouts of the man who the police also arrested that same day.”

  • Badagry youths protest against sack of lecturer at LASU

    Badagry youths protest against sack of lecturer at LASU

    Some youths, under the auspices of the Voice Movement of the Masses (VMM), an NGO, on Friday staged a peaceful protest in Badagry against the sacked of Dr Tony Dansu, an indigene, from the Lagos State University, Ojo.

    They staged the protest, in their hundreds, at the popular Badagry Roundabout, carrying placards of various inscriptions, including: “Badagrians Demand Immediate Recall of Dr Tony Dansu and others.

    “We Stand with Dr Tony Dansu. LASG Reinstate Dr Tony Dansu.”

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Dr Anthony Dansu, Department of Human Kinetics, Sports and Health Education, Faculty of Education, was among the eight academic staff members sacked by the institution’s authorities.

    NAN reports that the LASU Governing Council had at its 122nd meeting on Sept. 12, promoted 31 academic Staff, 346 non-academic staff and also dismissed eight academic staff members, including the ASUU-LASU Secretary, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer.

    The council also approved the dismissal of three non-academic staff on issues bordering on absence from duty, certificate falsification, theft of confidential documents, sale of marks, among others.

    The NGO President, Mr Samuel Salome, said that the protest was to express their sadness over the sack of Dr Tony Dansu, whom they claimed, was their role model in Badagry.

    “We are here to protest the sacked of son of Badadgry, Dr Tony Dansu, and we are using this opportunity to appeal to the Lagos State Government to set up an independent panel to revisit the matter.

    “We are also appealing to the Lagos State House of Assembly to intervene in the matter so that justice will be done.

    “Youths in Badagry look toward recall of the sacked lecturer; we believe that if the injustice is left unaddressed, this will kill morale of other people of Badagry who plan to go into lecturing after completion of their education.

    “We are also very sad about the development, and this is the reason we came to protest the unjustified dismissal of our own,” he said.

    Also, Mr Ayodele Hunpevi, the Secretary of VMM, said that youth in the town were sad to find out that it was one of the town’s indigenes headed the panel that sacked the lecturer.

    “It is sad to know that our Dansu was not sacked because of embezzlement, sex for mark or molestation.

    “The panel set up did not find him wanting in all these offences, and they still went ahead to sack him at this period when it is hard for people to feed themselves.

    “We want our amiable Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to look into the matter by setting up an independent panel to investigate the matter again,” he said.

    Commenting, Mr Taseyon Solomon, the VMM Public Relations Officer, said that the organisation stood for peace and believed that LASG would do justice by recalling the sack lecturers.

    Solomon said all the sacked lecturers by LASU management should be recalled, adding that the management was trying to cover up issues by sacking the lecturers.

  • LASU suspends three students over cultism, rape

    Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU) has approved the indefinite suspension of two final year students, Oloyede Akanbi and Tobiloba Olutade over cultism related activities.

    The university said on Wednesday in Lagos that Akanbi and Olutade were 400 level students of the Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management and Department of Accounting, respectively.

    “The Students’ Affairs Division received information on a fracas that happened on June 20, 2019, on the campus involving some students and non -students.

    “Our preliminary investigation revealed that the fracas which started at the Faculty of Management Sciences was between two cult groups.

    “ With the prompt reaction of the Security Department, those who were involved ran out of the campus and some of them were eventually apprehended and later handed over to the Police,” Fagbohun said in a statement.

    He said said that the outcome of its investigation revealed that the two affected students were involved in the incidents.

    In a related development, the university also approved the indefinite suspension of Afeez Ogunbowale of the Department of Chemistry Education over an alleged rape case.

    It said Ogunbowale was reported to have carried out the act on April 18, 2018 and was apprehended on September 13, 2018.

    According to the university, the case was subsequently transferred to the Festac Police Station, since it was a criminal offense.

    The university’s management, however, said that it was aware of the pressure being mounted on the Students’ Union and Faculty Associations leadership by students who would want the platforms to be used to shield offenders and perpetrators of criminality from justice.

    “For the avoidance of doubt, the university will not condone harassment and blackmail of students’ leaders by unscrupulous elements even as it encourages the union leaders to always pursue legitimate means in championing the interest of the students,” the statement said.

  • LASU student gets 6 months’ jail term for internet fraud

    LASU student gets 6 months’ jail term for internet fraud

    A third year student of the Lagos State University (LASU), Shuaib Abdulmujeed, on Wednesday got six months’ jail term for engaging in internet fraud.

    “The defendant shall be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment as proposed in the plea bargain agreement because of the passionate plea of the defence counsel.

    “The sentence shall start from Dec. 5, 2018, which is the day he was arrested,” Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court held.

    Taiwo, who did not give the student a fine option, said that incidence of cyber crime in the country was becoming alarming.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abdulmujeed had pleaded guilty to a three-count charge in a plea bargain agreement with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

    The defendant pleaded guilty for possessing of documents containing false information and indicating false pretences, contrary to Sections 1(3), 6 and 8 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act.

    His counsel, Mr Shina Makinde, had prayed the court to temper justice with mercy, blaming his action on strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

    “The defendant went into cyber crime as a result of strike embarked on by ASUU,” Makinde told the court.

    The defence counsel said that Abdulmujeed was academically gifted but fell victim of peer pressure during the strike.

    “The computer recovered from him was bought by his father for his school project, his action is still a mystery to his father and his entire family.

    “He has a strong 2.1 (second class upper) student, he is a very brilliant scholar, it is an unfortunate thing that he got into trouble as a result of peer pressure.

    “Prison is not a reformative place, I ask my lord to show judicial empathy,” Makinde prayed.

    He added that Abdulmujeed had not wasted the time of the court by deciding to enter into a plea bargain agreement.

    EFCC counsel, Mrs Anita Imo, had said that the student committed the offences in December 2018 in Ikeja.

    “On Dec. 7, 2018, he had in his possession, an email correspondence with the title ‘No subject’, printed from his email address reithgracia@gmail.com and linked to his phone number.

    “On Dec. 13, 2018, he had in his possession, documents titled ‘Personal info and privacy’, ‘Hangout with Patricia Appel’ and ‘My Day’, which were printed from his email address scotteastwood964@gmail.com which were linked to his phone number.

    “On Dec. 13, 2018, he also had in his possession, an email correspondence titled ‘Yahoo’, ‘Re: Money for Scott’, ‘Hello Madam (Flight Agent)’ and ‘Hello Scott’.

    “These documents were printed from his email address agentsforsafetrip01@yahoo.com which he knew contained false information,” Imo said.

  • No plans to increase tuition – LASU

    The Lagos State University (LASU) on Monday said there was no iota of truth in the rumour being circulated that it planned to increase its tuition soon.

    The unisversity’s spokesman, Mr Ademola Adekoya, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the rumour was the handiwork of mischief
    makers.
    “The story is not correct. No iota of truth on the increase of school fees,” Adekoya said.

    He said the university’s Governing Council also had not made any recommendation for the increase of school fees.

    According to him, the governing council only recently approved an increase on the amount paid on certificates, transcript and other sundry charges as recommended by the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the university.

    NAN reports that at 6.30 a.m. on Monday, the university also posted on its official twitter handle @LASUOfficial — “Kindly disregard any information suggesting an increase in the school fees of LASU. School Fees remains unchanged, please.”

    NAN also reports that former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, had on June 11, 2014 announced the reversal of LASU fee which ranged from N197,000 to N350,000 for medical students to the old rate of N25,000 across board.

    Fashola had in 2011 increased the fee from N25,000 to N197,000 for Arts and Humanities’ students, and N350,000 for medical students .

    But following several protest by students and civil society groups, Fashola effected a reversal of the fee.

    LASU’s tuition was increased in 2005 from N250 to N25,000 under former Gov. Bola Tinubu’s regime.

  • ASUU strike: Disregard resumption fake notice, LASU tells students

    The Lagos State University (LASU) has urged its students to disregard any notice directing them to resume for lectures amidst the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

    Spokesman of the university, Mr Ademola Adekoya told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the information was a lie and handwork of mischief makers.

    “Similar information was released for Ladoke Akintola university students some days ago. Kindly disregard the information as it did not emanate from the office of the LASU Registrar,’’ he said.

    NAN reports that a notice had gone viral on the social media recently directing all students of the university to resume for academic activities on January 8.

    The notice had claimed that the management of the university at its meeting of January 3, said all students be notified of the commencement of academic activities including course registration and lectures.

    NAN also reports that ASUU had on November 4, 2018 embarked on what it described as a ‘total, comprehensive and indefinite strike’ to demand action from the Federal Government on challenges affecting universities.