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The Lagos State University on Monday matriculated 6,377 students into various Facilities and Schools in the University for the 2021/2022 academic session.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji Bello, during her address at the ceremony, assured the students that they are in for a worthwhile academic experience.
The former Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University, Professor Lateef Akanni Hussein is dead. According to a statement on the official LASU page on Facebook on Monday, Hussein died after a brief illness on Sunday, 31st July, 2022 aged 75.
Prof. Hussein, a professor of Physics was the sixth Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University; he served between 2005 and 2011. Hussein will be buried on Monday according to Islamic rites.
The Governing Council of Lagos State University, on Thursday, says it has approved the appointment of a new registrar, bursar, and Director of Internal Audit for the Institution.
According to a statement signed by the Coordinator, Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations, Ademola Adekoya, the council appointed Mr. Emmanuel Fanu as registrar, Mr. Said Babatunde Olayinka as the bursar, and Mrs. Margaret Ogunkoya as the Director of Internal Audit of the university.
The new registrar is a former acting Registrar of the University, and until his new appointment, the Deputy Registrar, Vice Chancellor’s Office.
The Bursar, Mr. Olayinka, FCA, is the current Bursar of the University, who will, by the new appointment, serve a second tenure of four years in the position, while Mrs. Ogunkoya, the new substantive Director, Internal Audit, until her appointment, occupied the same position, in acting capacity.
The two new principal officers would assume duty on Saturday, July 2, 2022.
The appointment of the officials follows the successful conclusion of an interview exercise that took place on Wednesday, June 22 and Thursday, June 23, 2022.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, congratulated the new appointees and wished them a successful tenure of office.
Popular Nigerian singer, Bella Shmurda has reacted to the appeal made by Lagos State University (LASU), to return to the institution and complete his degree programme.
Recall that the artiste had in a tweet ahead of his birthday revealed that he dropped out of the school because he failed some courses. The 25-yr-old also said that he does not regret leaving school for music.
In reaction to his post, LASU said it’s happy to have played a part in his story. The school, however, urged him to return to school.
”Happy birthday @fineboybella. Glad you have come this far pursuing your dream. Also glad @LASUOfficial played a part in your beautiful story because Univ. don’t make people rich, only incubate them to find and achieve purpose. BTW, please come back to class and earn your degree,” it tweeted.
Days after the tweet went viral, Bella has now given a reaction suggesting that people should focus on making money than schooling.
He tweeted; ”Now playing: 4 years in @LASUOfficial is really nothing
Better get tha money! The economy is starving!”
The Lagos State University (LASU) on Thursday morning announced the appointment of Prof Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello as its ninth substantive Vice Chancellor.
Olatunji-Bello, a Professor of Physiology, had served as Acting Vice-Chancellor of the institution before her promotion.
It would be recalled that LASU witnessed some crises during the tenure of Olarewaju Fagbohun, the institution’s eighth VC, whose tenure expired on January 11.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos governor, had in January cancelled a previous appointment procedure, in response to petitions.
A few months later, the governor inaugurated a 13-member governing council for LASU following the report of a special panel constituted to resolve the crisis that marred the process for the appointment of the varsity’s 9th vice-chancellor.
But on Thursday morning Olatunji-Bello was named as LASU’s ninth substantive Vice-Chancellor.
She is married to Tunji Bello, a journalist and lawyer, and the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, and the former Secretary to Lagos State Government and they are blessed with 3 children.
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has appointed a former state’s Accountant- General, Mr. David Sunmoni, as chairman of the 13-member Governing Council of the Lagos State University (LASU).
The governor’s Special Adviser on Education, Tokunbo Wahab, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said the appointment was based on the report of the Special Visitation Panel on the appointment of the 9th Vice-Chancellor for the institution.
According to him, the visitation panel recommended the dissolution of the university’s previous governing council.
Other members of the council are – Prof. Amuwo Shaffudeen, Mr. Anuoluwa Eso, Mr. Tolani Sule, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, Mr. Karl Toriola, Mr. Adekunle Soname, Mrs. Foluke Abdul- Rasaq, Mrs. Moronke Williams, Adebayo Akinsanya, Mrs. Adenike Fasheun, Mrs. Mojisola Taiwo, and Dr. Hakeem Adetugbobo.
Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has been ranked second in the 2021 Emerging Economies University ranking.
The Coordinator of LASU Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations, Mr. Ademola Adekoya, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
Ripples Nigeria garnered that LASU was ranked among the best three Nigerian universities in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking in 2020.
According to the statement, LASU Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oyedamola Oke, received the news of the university’s new ranking on Tuesday.
Oke congratulated the staff and members of the university community on the feat.
The statement read: “The new status of the university is heart-warming and a further attestation to her quality teaching, research exploits, and robust service delivery.
“The Acting Vice-Chancellor applauds the invaluable and immeasurable contributions of all stakeholders including; the Lagos State Government, members of staff, and our world-class students towards the newest ranking of the institution.
“Without the unwavering support and commitment of all stakeholders to the LASU project, the feat would have been unattainable.”
The governor of Lagos state , Sanwo-Olu revealed the news via his Twitter page;
Today, as part of our promise to reward academic excellence in Lagos State, I presented cheques of N5 million each to the best graduating students of the Undergraduate and Masters programmes of the Lagos State University.
Shotunde Oladimeji Idris, the best graduating student was also offered automatic employment into the state’s civil service as we continue to improve the attractiveness of our civil service for the state’s best brains.
At the start of this administration, improving education in the state was highlighted as one of my biggest priorities, and we demonstrated commitment by increasing budgetary allocation to the sector as we work on improving the quality of our curriculums & welfare of our students.
Two days to exit of Professor Olanrewaju Fagbohun as the Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, having completed his five-year-single tenure, the students of the university have expressed their displeasure over the recent increment in school fees, demanding a reversal to the old fees within two weeks from today, Friday.
The students said they had been gravely disturbed since the fees were increased and consequently all along been engaging all relevant authorities in and outside the university to actualise a reversal of the fees with the efforts yielded no positive results till today.
They named those they had engaged to include the management team led by the outgoing vice-chancellor, the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Education, Mr Wahab Tokunbo and the Chairman, Lagos House Committee on Education, Mr Olayinka Ogundimu among others.
The university was on Friday, December 11, announced the increment of its tuition fees from N25, 000 to N67, 048.50 (representing 168 per cent increment) and to be applicable only to fresh students and those to be admitted subsequently.
However, the students under the aegis of Students’ Union Government and in a statement signed by their President AbdulBasit Ashade and Public Relations Officer, Zeenab Adams, said the union is primarily concerned about the welfare of members and would continue to project same for actualisation in a peaceful manner.
The students said they quite understood the economic pressure the fees hike would have on the parents, guardians as well as the students themselves, especially as regards the already harsh economic effects of COVID-19 that people are still grappling with.
They vowed that the union would stop at nothing in ensuring the increment is properly reviewed as this is a very challenging time in the country and that “we must be sensitive not to compound this burden on indigenes and residents of Lagos State.”
The students said the primary purpose of establishing LASU is to impact and impart value in indigenes and residents of the state for a better Lagos and therefore the authorities should reverse the fees within 14 days from today, January 8, 2020, to an old fee.
The students said pending expiration of 14 days, it is expected that the management team, members of the governing council, state government officials and other relevant stakeholders would have met to proffer solution to the increment.
The union, therefore, said “Payment of school fees by newly admitted students should be suspended and portal for payment closed until a resolution is jointly reached by all parties and also directive is given by the Students’ Union body to continue the payment of their school fees.
Reacting to the matter, the school management said the university had no option than to increase the fees as it had done because of what it called the increasing huge financial responsibilities before it.
The Coordinator of Centre for Information Press and Public Relations of the university, Mr Ademola Adekoya, who reacted on behalf of the university via a statement made available to newsmen, insisted that the increment was a decision jointly taken by all the stakeholders in the university including the students and various staff unions and that the increment is applicable only to newly admitted students for the 2020\2021 and those that would come after them.
He said the increment became necessary for the university to be able to meet the increasing financial obligations that would further lead to its progress.
LASU is currently the second-best university in Nigeria queuing behind the University of Ibadan as rated by the Times Higher Education in its latest world universities ranking and the university is also one of the universities in the country that have highest numbers of candidates seeking university admission.
Adekoya said the state government as the proprietor could not all alone raise enough funds to sustain let alone improve the quality of services being delivered by the university and that has earned it second-best university status in the country.
He said the university had maintained the old fees for many years and would not be able to cope again on its mandates satisfactorily should it retain the old fees.
He said every student of LASU irrespective of course of study is now being engaged in rigorous training on one entrepreneurial skill or the other that would equip them to stand on their own economically even before graduation.
“So, the increment is inevitable and therefore should be seen as a necessary step to further consolidate the quality of education being offered by the university,” he stressed