Tag: Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe

Six Professors Jostle As UNILAG Names New VC Friday

Abibat Babalola

New Vice-Chancellor for the University of Lagos (UNILAG) is to be announced this week. This came as six Professors are in race for the exalted position at the University community. The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council and the university, Dr Olanrewaju Tejuosho, gave the hint Monday at an event to commence the 60th Anniversary of the University, at the College of Medicine of the University at Idi- Araba. The new Don is to succeed the outgoing VC, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, a Professor of Botany and the 12th vice-chancellor of…

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UNILAG Plunged Into Darkness As EKEDC Disconnected Varsity Over ₦200m Debt

Tade Salako

THE Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has thrown the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka, Yaba, Lagos into darkness over unpaid debt of about N200 million it billed the university for electricity consumption. The university authorities, however said that the institution has dutifully never failed to settle its electricity bill on a monthly basis, claiming it has paid up to June 2021. READ ALSO: COVID-19: UNILAG shuts student hostels indefinitely Meet Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika, UNILAG first female Professor of Mass Comm Nigerian Doctors begin nationwide ‘total, indefinite’ strike Monday According to the…

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University of Lagos Test-Runs Home-Made Zero Emission Vehicle + PHOTO

Gbenga Adeoti

  The University of Lagos  is test-running its Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) it initiated  in 2018. The institution’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, (Academics and Research), Prof. Oluwole Familoni, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. According to him, the production is an invaluable addition to the university’s efforts at preventing release of toxic emissions to the environment. He said that the initiative was also to encourage indigenous engineering innovation. According to Familoni, UNILAG ZEV is a 63 per cent hardware and 100 per cent  software home-made (Akoka content) mechatronics…

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