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  • BREAKING: Suspended Ogundipe returns as UNILAG VC

    BREAKING: Suspended Ogundipe returns as UNILAG VC

    The suspended Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe has been reinstated.

    Reliable sources confirmed that Ogundipe was reinstated on Wednesday.

    The governing council of UNILAG had removed Ogundipe as the vice-chancellor of the institution.

    He was accused of financial impropriety and gross misconduct.

    He was removed at the council meeting held at the headquarters of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Abuja.

    His removal was criticised by the university community prompting the Federal Government to direct the Pro-Chancellor/Chairman of Council, University of Lagos, Dr. Wale Babalakin and the sacked Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe to step aside from their official duties pending the outcome of a Special Visitation Panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to resolve the crisis rocking the institution.

    The President, as visitor to the University also removed Prof. Theophilus Soyombo, the Acting Vice Chancellor appointed by Babalakin and appointed Prof Folashade Ogunsola to act as the VC pending the report of the visitation committee.

    Babalakin has since resigned his position as the chairman of council.

    Although the Ministry of Education has not officially confirmed the story, Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, is expected to brief the media on the outcome of the UNILAG visitation panel on Wednesday.

  • NITDA partners UNILAG to boost ICT lawyers

    The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Lagos (UNILAG) to increase the number of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) lawyers in the country.

    Speaking during the signing on Thursday in Lagos, the Director-General of NITDA, Dr Ali Pantami said that the partnership was to ensure the implementation and enforcement of ICT policies and laws in Nigeria.

    Pantami said that with the policies on ICT on ground since 2006, there were no enforcement, due to insufficiency of ICT lawyers.

    He said that if the country focused on producing ICT lawyers, policies will be implemented easier.

    “What we are targeting is to get substantial number of ICT lawyers that can understand and regulate the ICT sector.

    “We are looking for people who will enforce our policies and laws.

    “We are agitating for local content, and the patronage of local content cannot be enforced without ICT laws and ICT lawyers.

    “NITDA has the mandate to regulate IT and develop IT; and one of the ways to implement this is by sponsoring students in the area of IT,’’ the director-general said.

    The Vice Chancellor of UNILAG, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, said that the partnership was a landmark step for the country.

    Ogundipe called on other agencies to partner with the institution to ensure the development of the economy.

    He said that the university would do everything possible to ensure that the ICT Law programme was known, not only locally but internationally.