The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ibidapo-Obe died on Jan. 3, from COVID-19 complications.
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Ogundipe made the appeal during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
In his address at the ceremony which was conducted virtually and physically, in Lagos, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, urged the new students to keep the flag of the institution flying, by aligning themselves to its vision.
He said Prof. Ibidapo-Obe, who died on Sunday at the age of 71, was one patriotic Nigerian who gave his best toward the development of his country.
Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the Vice-Chancellor of UNILAG, in a statement said Ibidapo-Obe exited the world at a time that his experience was in dire need for nation building.
Ogundipe disclosed this in an interview on the sidelines of a ceremony to hand over the vertical extension of the Faculty of Law of the institution on Wednesday in Lagos.
Ogundipe said this at a virtual/physical grand finale essay competition put together by the Lagos branch of the Organisation for Women in Science for Developing World in Lagos on Thursday.
A brief recap of the rumpus. On August 12, 2020, the UNILAG Governing Council, then under the headship of Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN), in a majority vote, at a decisive meeting of the body, relieved the just reinstated VC of his appointment (then), following allegations of abuse of office, financial recklessness and many infractions in award of contracts. This action, expectedly, did not go down well with Prof. Ogundipe and as such immediately headed to court to contest the Governing Council’s decision.
Ogundipe spoke shortly after his arrival from Abuja, to a jubilant crowd that had besieged the institution’s main gate.
The directive was handed down by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu in a statement signed by his Director of Press and Public Relations, Ben Goong and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Minister of Education, Professor Adamu Adamu, on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari on August 26 inaugurated the committee to look into the leadership crisis in the university.
The recipients are the first set of beneficiaries to be picked to benefit from the N250 million seed capital earmarked, last year, as Research and Innovation Fund by the State Government.
Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU National President, made the call while addressing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja
ASUU said this at a news conference by its National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in Abuja on Tuesday
The committee also condemned appointment of an acting vice chancellor for the university outside the university’s three deputy Vice-Chancellors.
This followed the removal of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe by the Governing Council earlier on Wednesday
The Governing Council of the University announced Ogundipe’s sack at its meeting held in Abuja in the premises of the National Universities Commission
The council insists on going ahead with its meeting, while ASUU has said Babalakin remains a persona non grata on the campus
he project, known as Unilag/LASRIC Ambuvalent, was sponsored by the Lagos State Science Research and Innovation Council
On Monday, UNILAG management had suspended Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Languages and Integrated Studies and banned him from the campus