Following the suspension of the warring parties at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari that the Senate of the university to meet and appoint a Vice Chancellor in acting capacity to oversee the running of the institution, information reaching our newsroom has it the UNILAG Senate has elected Prof. Folasade Ogunsola as Acting Vice Chancellor.
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development Services) polled 135 votes compared to Prof. Ben Oghojafor’s 31 votes. It was gathered one vote was declared void. A total of 167 Professors were at the Senate meeting. Oghojafor is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Management Services. Ogunsola who is now the acting VC was also the first woman to be the Provost, College of Medicine University of Lagos before she became deputy vice chancellor.