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Olatunji-Bello, four others in final race for LASU VC
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By Adesina Wahab
Five professors, including the wife of the Commissioner for Environment, Mr Tunji Bello, Professor Mrs Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, are in the final race to succeed Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun SAN as the ninth substantive Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo.
Other contenders are Prof Olumuyiwa Odusanya, Prof Senapon Bakre, Prof Kabir Akinyemi, and Prof. Muyiwa Awofolu.
Olatunji-Bello and Odusanya are from the College of Medicine, Bakre and Akinyemi are from the Faculty of Science, while Awofolu is from the Namibian University of Science and Technology.
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The tenure of the 8
th substantive Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU), Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun, will end on 11
th January, 2021. However, there are a number of Professors who have been shortlisted for interview, which is scheduled to take place on Monday 21
st December, 2020. Among the five already shortlisted candidates, there are clear two frontrunners, Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello and Professor Olumuyiwa Odusanya both of the College of Medicine, Lagos State University. The other three contestants are not pushovers. They include Professor Senapon Bakre and Professor Kabir Akinyemi, both of the Faculty of Science, Lagos State University, and Professor Muyiwa Awofolu, Namibian University of Science and Technology.
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Dissecting the Politics of LASU’s 9th Vice-Chancellor: Who will wear the crown?
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The tenure of the 8th substantive Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU), Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun, will end on 11th January 2021.
However, there are a number of Professors who have been shortlisted for an interview, which is scheduled to take place on Monday 21st December 2020.
Among the five already shortlisted candidates, there are clearly two frontrunners, Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello and Professor Olumuyiwa Odusanya both of the College of Medicine, Lagos State University.
The other three contestants are not pushovers. They include Professor Senapon Bakre and Professor Kabir Akinyemi, both of the Faculty of Science, Lagos State University, and Professor Muyiwa Awofolu, Namibian University of Science and Technology.
There are feelers among University staff that the inexplicable exclusion of those who have become professors, but without PhDs, was as a result of the outgoing vice-chancellor’s desire to have Odusanya as his successor. The question, however, is whether a university that is currently flushing out some of its academics without PhDs on account of the lack of academic progress can afford to have a vice-chancellor who does not possess a PhD.
The tenure of the eighth substantive vice-chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU), Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun, will end on January 11, 2021. However, there are a number of professors who have been shortlisted for interview for the position of the ninth vace chancellor of LASU, which is scheduled to take place on Monday, December 21. Among the five already shortlisted candidates, there are clear two frontrunners, Professors Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello and Olumuyiwa Odusanya, both of the College of Medicine, Lagos State University. The othe