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LASU VC Appointment: Sanwo-Olu dissolves governing council
PREMIUM TIMES had exclusively hinted of this on May 11, a day after the report was submitted by the panel. 3 min read
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has endorsed the recommendations of the visitation panel to the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, including the dissolution of the institution’s Adebayo Ninalowo-led governing council.
PREMIUM TIMES had exclusively hinted of this on May 11, a day after the report was submitted by the panel.
Mr Sanwo-Olu, who had been in dilemma since the panel, headed by the Pro-Chancellor of the Ekiti State University and former Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Bamitale Omole, submitted its report on May 10, took the decision on Friday.
LASU: Panel recommendations’ll be implemented, says Sanwo-Olu
Published 11 May 2021
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the report of the special visitation panel on the appointment of the 9th substantive Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University, Ojo, will be fully implemented.
Sanwo-Olu made this known on Monday while receiving the report from the six-member panel.
The panel was chaired by former VC of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Bamitale Omole.
Recall that three weeks ago, the Lagos State Government constituted a special visitation panel to look into the issues surrounding the appointment of the 9th VC of the LASU, especially the remote and the immediate causes of the impasse into the selection process.
EXCLUSIVE: LASU VC Appointment: Visitation panel recommends new selection process
The panel has also recommended the engagement of consultants to join a new joint council and senate selection committee to be inaugurated by the university’s governing council.
The controversies over the appointment of 9th substantive vice-chancellor at the
Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, may yet be far from being over as the visitation panel appointed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has recommended jettisoning of the report of the second selection process,
The panel, headed by the Pro-Chancellor of the Ekiti State University and former Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Bamitale Omole, on Monday submitted a three-volume report to Mr Sanwo-Olu containing its recommendations on ways towards resolving the lingering crisis over the appointment, among other pertinent issues.
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According to the most recent estimates, from 2016, of both deaths per age group and overall population size, 2.8% of children under five died in that year.
The United Nations estimated that in 2019 the mortality rate for Nigerian children under five was 117.2 per 1,000 live births, with mortality rates for boys higher than for girls.
Public health experts reiterated that the under-five mortality rate in Nigeria was still unacceptably high, because of a weak health system and poverty, among other factors. x
To mark World Health Day in April 2021, Nigerian non-profit organisation Connected Development made an alarming claim about child mortality.“In commemoration of #WorldHealthDay2021, we are reminded that annually, Nigeria loses over 99% of children below the age of five due to dilapidated health care services,” the organisation tweeted.