COVID-19: UNILAG shuts staff club
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The management has, therefore, ordered that its Staff Club should be closed immediately.
Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the Vice Chancellor, gave the directive.
“The directive is necessitated to curb the spread of COVID-19 as a result of a second wave of the pandemic”, the information read.
Ogundipe told The Nation that the closure was in compliance with the Lagos State Government’s instruction.
“It’s just to obey the directive from the government about the closure of club houses,” he said.
UNILAG is in a mourning mood after losing two Professors.
Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, a former VC, and Duro Ajeyalemi, ex-Registrar, Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board, died within three days.
Ibidapo-Obe highly dependable, utterly reliable, says Afe Babalola
Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti
THE founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola, said on Wednesday that the late former Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, was highly dependable and utterly reliable while alive.
Babalola, who is a former UNILAG Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, said, “Apart from being academically sound, Prof. Ibidapo-Obe was a professional to the core.
“I have seen him at work and I have also seen him at play. I found him to be ever so cool, collected, respectful, cheerful, kind, selfless, committed and incorruptible.”
LUTH worries over increasing severe cases of covid-19
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Management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, yesterday, raised the alarm over the upsurge of severe cases of Covid-19 new infections in the hospital, even as it expressed worry that most of the patients were on oxygen, while many others come in when they are in critical condition.
From February 27 to May 11, 2020, Nigeria recorded a total of 4,641 cases. The average daily death from the virus within the period was three as against the average of six daily recorded within the first five days of this year.
Lagos, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria, has continued to record more cases and deaths as the state governor and medical experts cautioned residents to adhere to safety protocols to stop further spread and possible imposition of another lockdown.
The University of Lagos (UNILAG), on Wednesday, lost another prominent professor, Duro Ajeyalemi, to the dreaded COVID-19 virus.
It was gathered that Professor Ajeyalemi died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) isolation centre.
Crawford University mourns Pro-Chancellor, Ibidapo-Obe
The vice-chancellor described the late professor emeritus as a philanthropist and warm-hearted man who had contributed immensely to the growth of Crawford University.
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The Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State, on Wednesday described the death of its third Pro-Chancellor and member of the Board of Trustees, Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe as a rude shock.
Mr Ibidapo-Obe, a professor of Systems Engineering, was appointed Pro-Chancellor of the 15-year-old faith-based university owned by the Apostolic Faith Mission, West and Central Africa (WECA) on August 23, 2018.
The Vice-Chancellor, Crawford University, Reuben Kolo, in a statement, said the institution had been thrown into deep mourning with the news of the death of the 71-year-old ebullient academic.