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  • FG appoints Prof. Ejikeme as UNIJOS acting Vice Chancellor

    The Federal Goverment has appointed Prof. Gray Ejikeme as acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos (UNIJOS) in Plateau.

    Mr Abdullahi Abdullahi, Deputy Registrar, Information and Publications of the university announced this in a statement on Tuesday in Jos.

    Abdullahi said the appointment of Ejikeme, the current Deputy Vice Chancellor, Administration, of the institution followed a recommendation by senate of the university.

    He said Ejikeme’s nomination took effect from June 23, after the completion of the five-year tenure of Prof. Sebastian Maimako, the ninth substantive Vice-Chancellor of the university.

    “The senate unanimously nominated Ejikeme to serve as Acting Vice-Chancellor, subject to the approval of the Minister of Education in the absence of a serving Governing Council for the university.

    “Ejikeme is to oversee activities of the university, pending the appointment of a substantive vice-chancellor by the university’s Governing Council.

    ” A letter to this effect signed by the Registrar of the university and Secretary to Senate, Chief Monday Danjem has been issued to Ejikeme,” Abdullahi said.

    Ejikeme, a professor of Clinical Psychology and Social Work, had his first degree at the University of Lagos.

    He later bagged an M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology, a Master of Science Degree in Social Work (MSSW) and Ph.D, all from the University of Jos.

    A distinguished academic, Ejikeme got appointment with the university in 1986 teaching Psychologically- oriented Sociology and Social Work courses in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    He has held several academic and administrative positions including Head of Departments, Sociology, and General and Applied Psychology.

    Ejikeme also served as Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chairman, Committee of Deans and Directors, and Senate representative of the 13th Governing Council of the University, among others.

  • Crisis greets planned selection of new VC for University of Ibadan

    Crisis greets planned selection of new VC for University of Ibadan

    Just as the University of Ibadan is getting set to announce a new vice-chancellor on Wednesday, the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) are flexing muscles against the selection process.

    Members of the unions barricaded the varsity’s gate on Wednesday, carrying placards condemning the process. Some other members of the unions stormed the university’s Council chamber where the final selection is to be made.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that their grievance is that they have a fear that the selection committee was planning to impose one of the candidates on the university.

    The protest began also after the screening committee announced six finalists out of 18 professors eyeing the post.

    The university’s NASU Chairman, Mr Malachy Etim, told NAN that the unions decided to make its grievances known because “the process of selection of a vice-chancellor for the university has been very faulty from the beginning.

    “They want to impose a candidate on us through this faulty process and we are saying we cannot accept any imposition.

    “Yes, we have had internal crisis before, but the one that triggered today’s protest is the selection process.

    “We are holding our congress right away and shall come up with a position in the event that the committee announces the candidate we think it wants to impose on us,’’ he said.

    Chairman SSANU, Mr Wale Akinremi, also told NAN that members of the screening committee elected internally “got there through manipulated and fraudulent electoral process’’.

    “We will never work with the candidate they plan to impose on us. We have even locked the varsity’s gate,’’ he said.

    “We must restart the process. Prof. Idowu Olayinka, the sitting vice-chancellor, must hand over to an acting vice-chancellor,’’ he stressed.

    Five of the six finalists are professors of the University of Ibadan, while one is from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

    The six finalists were shortlisted after each of the 18 candidates made 15 minutes presentation before the screening committee comprising the entire Council members of the institution on Tuesday.

    Three of the finalists are Prof. Kayode Adebowale, Prof. Olusegun Ademowo and Prof. Ebenezer Farombi.

    The other three are Prof. Abideen Aderinto, Prof. Babatunde Salako and Prof. Femi Mimiko from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).

    The five-man screening panel is headed by the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Nde Joshua Waklek.

    Other members of the panel are two external representatives from the Federal Ministry of Education, Sir Ben Okoronkwo and Dr Uchena Uba.

    The two elected representatives of the Senate in the screening committee are Prof. Ezekiel Ayoola and Prof. Peter Olapegba

    When contacted, the university’s Director, Public Relations, Mr Tunji Oladejo, told NAN that he would not like to comment until the final announcement has been made.

    Whoever emerges as the new vice-chancellor is expected to assume office on Dec. 1.

  • BREAKING: UNILAG Governing Council sacks Vice-Chancellor

    BREAKING: UNILAG Governing Council sacks Vice-Chancellor

    The Vice-Chancellor of University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Olawatoyin Ogundipe, has been sacked by the governing council of the institution.

    His removal was announced during a meeting of the Governing Council of the institution which held at the National Universities Commission (NUC) building in Abuja on Wednesday.

    Seven members voted for the removal of Ogundipe (UNILAG Vice-Chancellor) while four voted against. One of the members voted that he should rather be placed on suspension.

    The meeting was presided over by its Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN).

    A statement by the Registrar and Secretary to Council, Mr. Oladejo Azeez titled: Notice to the General Public on the removal of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos” based the decision on gross misconduct, financial recklessness among others.

    It reads: “The general public is hereby notified that at an emergency meeting held on Wednesday 12 August 2020 and in accordance with the statutory power vested in it by law, the Governing Council of the University of Lagos removed Prof. Oluwatoyin T. Ogundipe, FAS from office as Vice-Chancellor of the University with immediate effect.

    “The decision was based on the Council’s investigation of serious acts of wrongdoing, gross misconduct, financial recklessness, and abuse of office against Professor Oluwatoyin T. Ogundipe.”

  • #BBNaija: Nina will undergo moral rehabilitation– IMSU Vice Chancellor

    #BBNaija: Nina will undergo moral rehabilitation– IMSU Vice Chancellor

    Big Brother Naija 2018 housemate, Nina has been slammed on countless occasions over the indecent and immoral attitude displayed by her in the BBNaija house.

    A certain viral report has been credited to the Vice-Chancellor of Imo State University, IMSU, Prof Adaobi Obasi. The Vice Chancellor noted that Nina, who happens to be a student of the university, will undergo moral rehabilitation when she returns from the BBNaija show.

    According to the report, the Vice Chancellor allegedly told some Owerri based journalists that the measure is to forestall and foreclose any of the bad influences being transmitted to her while she was on the show.

    She said:”As we have a lot to do, you too have a lot to do. One of my students is now in Big Brother Naija. It is not the type of thing I am saying because I don’t see the need. I am talking of something positive; something that will help. We are praying, I told some people that this lady, whatever influence that she has, does not affect my other students here, my daughters here.

    “We give something that will yield something. I never know what that BBN, the morals it is teaching. Maybe I am the only one out there. I don’t know what it is teaching us. Is it to have sex in the public? So, this is my own opinion and I hold onto it. Can you imagine my student telling them that she will sort us out here. We are waiting for her to come and sort us out

     

    “Didn’t you listen to her, that she would sort us out. When she finishes, let her come home and sort us out. If this girl comes back, I will watch her and make sure she has dropped those influences. I know I sent out some girls to America for leadership training. I allowed them upon return to teach others. This is the type of thing I want us to do. I will watch her and I will make sure she has dropped that influence” she revealed.

     

     

  • UNILAG appoints Ogundipe as new Vice Chancellor

    The University of Lagos has appointed Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, a professor of botany, as its new vice-chancellor.

    He becomes the 12th vice-chancellor of the university and will succeed Prof. Rahamon Bello.

    Prof. Ogundipe is currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics and Research, UNILAG.

    When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the school, Toyin Adebule, confirmed Ogundipe’s appointment.

    “He has been appointed; he is our new VC,” he said.

    Apart from Ogundipe, other shortlisted candidates for the position included: Prof. Ben Oghojafor, who is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Management Services; the university’s immediate past Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Management Services, Prof. Duro Oni; a former Provost of the College of Medicine, UNILAG and former National President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Oluwole Atoyebi.

    Others were a former Dean of Students’ Affairs and now Director of Distance Learning Institute of the university, Prof. Olukayode Amund; Dean of Postgraduate School, Ajewole Moses; former Dean of UNILAG’s Faculty of Pharmacy, Odukoya Olukemi; and a former Vice-Chancellor of Caleb University, Imota, Lagos State, Prof. Ayodeji Olukoju.

  • UNILORIN gets new Vice Chancellor

    UNILORIN gets new Vice Chancellor

    The management of the University of Ilorin has appointed Sulyman Abdulkareem as its new Vice-Chancellor.

    The university’s Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of council, Abdullahi Oyekan, announced the appointment on Monday.

    Mr. Oyekan said the institution reached the decision after a meeting of the council in accordance with the provisions of the Universities Amendment Act.

    According to him, the appointment will take effect from October 16 while the tenure of the outgoing vice chancellor, AbdulGaniyu Ambali, will end on October 15.

    Mr. Abdulkareem, a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering is the institutions’s 10th Vice-chancellor.

    He was once vice chancellor of the Alhikmah University, Ilorin.

    He was born in 1954 at Oro, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara.

    He schooled at the University of Detroit in 1980 where he earned a degree in Chemical Engineering and also at the University of Louisville, in 1988 where he earned a Ph.D in the same discipline.

    His area of specialization is Heterogeneous Catalysis/Reaction Engineering.

  • Unilorin has not experienced strikes in the last 17 years- Vice Chancellor

    The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, on Tuesday, said the university had not experienced workers’ strikes or students’ unrest in the last 17 years.

    The Vice Chancellor stated this at an interactive session with newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara.

    He admitted that this was one of the reasons why the University had remained the most sought after by admission seekers for more than four years consecutively.

    Ambali, however, said that the university had continued to have its fair share of challenges and “we are tackling them.

    “January 2017, will be the 17th year that the University of Ilorin will continue to be consistent in opening its doors to students”.

    The Vice Chancellor recounted some of the challenges his management had faced since October 2012 when he assumed office, saying there is no road that is smooth or trouble-free.

    “The road to heaven is not easy; you have to work for it.

    “If you are a Muslim, you have to pray five times daily; you have to fast and you have to, in fact, abide by the five pillars of Islam.

    “If you are a Christian, it has its own protocol. It is not easy to achieve what the protocol states,” he said.

    The Vice Chancellor used the occasion to clarify what he called the current misinformation about changes in the costs and delays in the delivery of the PC tablets to the students.

    “To start with, the tablet project started four years ago when we conceived the idea to make University of Ilorin’s graduates well-equipped for the challenges of the outside world which they will soon face when they leave here,” he said,

    Ambali said that until sometimes in 2015 when the naira began to depreciate significantly in value, the project was smooth and trouble-free.

    The Vice Chancellor added that most operations in the university were digital, adding that the business of the university’s Senate was paperless.

    “You will not see professors and senate members of the university carrying lots of pamphlets in their hands going to the senate chambers.

    “Unilorin was the first to start the Computer-Based Test (CBT) in the country. We started it more than 10 years ago,” he said.

    He said that for the university to be having a paperless Senate, having cashless environment, the teaching and learning on the campus have to be ICT-based.

    He said it was heart-warming to hear laudable achievements from students of the university at their various NYSC camps and the offices where they were employed.

  • LASU: Vice Chancellor calls for maintenance of infrastructure

    The Lagos State University (LASU) on Thursday urged members of its community to conform to acceptable global practices in the use and maintenance of infrastructure and facilities in the campus.

    The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, gave the advice in a statement he signed in Lagos.

    Fagbohun said that one of the things that made the university tick was the quality of its infrastructure and facilities‎.

    He said the institution was renovating its facilities and thorough job must be done to prolong their life span. ‎ ‎
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    “As I have always emphasized, the LASU of our dream is that of a university that can compete favourably in all ramifications against the very best in the world. ‎
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    “‎We will continue to aggressively work on these facilities in the weeks and months ahead.

    “The efforts of our very respected Deans, Heads of Departments, ‎Director of Academic Planning and her team and other members of staff must also be commended,’’ he said.

    According to him, the sustainability of the management’s efforts lies in the hands of the students.

    The vice-chancellor cautioned the students against turning their desks to the chairs by sitting on them or defacing them with posters. ‎

    “In coming months, we do not want to have to replace the new ones we just purchased, but rather add to them and embark on new developmental projects,’’ the don said.‎

    Fagbohun said he would constantly engage with the Students’ Union leaders as well as faculty and departmental students’ representatives, to ensure the success of his vision.