Tag: UNILAG Crisis

UNILAG Crisis: Babalakin resigns as Pro-Chancellor, accuses FG’s visitation panel of bias

Ishaku Yohanna

Dr. Wale Babalakin, Pro-Chancellor, University of Lagos, UNILAG has stepped down from the position citing bias from the Federal Government’s Visitation Panel. Babalakin-led Governing Council had sacked the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe from office over alleged corruption and others. Ogundipe took the matter to court and the Federal Government had to wade in by setting up a Visitation Panel to look into the crisis rocking the institution. The panel has submitted its report. But Babalakin resigned his appointment as Pro-Chancellor, thanking President Muhammadu Buhari for giving him the opportunity…

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UNILAG Crisis: FG suspends Babalakin as Pro Chancellor, ask Ogundipe to recuse self as VC

Ishaku Yohanna

The Federal Government has directed the Pro-Chancellor/Chairman of Council of the University of Lagos, Dr. Wale Babalakin, and the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin T.Ogundipe, to step aside from their official duties pending the outcome of the Special Visitation Panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari. The information was announced in a press statement signed by the Federal Ministry of Education spokesman, Ben Goong. “Government also directs the Senate of the University of Lagos to immediately convene to nominate an acting Vice-Chancellor from amongst its members for confirmation by the Governing…

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UNILAG Crisis: University Senate won’t recognise acting Vice Chancellor, says committee of VCs

Ishaku Yohanna

The Committee of Vice Chancellors of Universities (CVC) has condemned the removal of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (Unilag), Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, without due process. The committee also condemned appointment of an acting vice chancellor for the university outside the university’s three deputy Vice-Chancellors. Prof. Yakubu Ochefu, Secretary-General, CVC, expressed the view of the committee while fielding questions from newsmen on Friday in Abuja. “The chairman of the council knows that the tenure of two members of the council has expired, so he waited for the members not…

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UNILAG Crisis: Sacked VC heads to court, as Senate wants council dissolved

Ishaku Yohanna

The sacked Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, (UNILAG) Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has engaged a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, to file a suit to challenge his removal from office. Ogundipe stated in the letter that the act of the Governing Council of the university “purportedly removing” him from office was “illegal and unconstitutional”, adding that it was “carried out without due process and contrary to the University Act and other extant laws governing discipline, suspension and removal of the Vice-Chancellor of the university.”  “I hereby formally brief you…

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