Wale Babalakin
11 Nov 2020
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has reinstated Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as the vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG). "The removal of Professor Oluwatoyin T. Ogundipe as the Vice-Chancellor did not follow due process," spokesman to the education ministry Ben-Bem Goong said quoting Buhari in the report of the presidential visitation panel. "Mr. President after careful…
11 Nov 2020
The suspended Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, is set to return to his seat. This followed the recommendation of the panel set up by the Federal Government
9 Oct 2020
I read the tediously negative rejoinder titled “Rasheed Ojikutu: The mindset of a hatchet man at Unilag” by Mikail Mumuni, who claimed to be the media adviser to Dr. Wale Babalakin
5 Oct 2020
The article, titled Wale Babalakin: The pitiable angle, written by Rasheed Ojikutu, a professor in the Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Lagos and published...
24 Sep 2020
It is with great relief that one read the news about the resignation and exit of Wale Babalakin from his position as the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lagos. The birds on the sky of Akoka are chanting “Hallelujah while the trees in the garden of various faculties lurch left and right in a chorus…
18 Sep 2020
Another external member of the governing council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Bayo Adaralegbe, has tendered his resignation letter. Adaralegbe said his decision hinged on the crisis rocking the university and accused the substantive vice-chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, of falsifying the result of an interview conducted for applicants into the position of director of works…
4 Sep 2020
The suspended Chairman of University of Lagos (UNILAG) Governing Council, Dr. Wale Babalakin, yesterday, appeared before the visitation panel set up by the Federal Government to look into the leadership crisis rocking the institution.
3 Sep 2020
A professor of Sociology at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Lai Olurode has described the failure of internal mechanisms to resolve the conflict as well as the intervention of the Federal Government in the dispute as unfortunate and antithetic to the principle of university autonomy. Prof Olurode said the crisis should naturally have been…
22 Aug 2020
The Federal Government has directed the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Wale Babalakin, to recuse himself from official duties
22 Aug 2020
Embattled Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has filed a notice of discontinuance in a suit challenging his sack from the position.
20 Aug 2020
As of noon on August 14, 2020, the Senate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, rejected the removal of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as Vice Chancellor of the institution by the Governing Council.
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