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Share Students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, have kicked at a recent hike in tuition fees by the institution’s management, demanding a reversal to the old fees within two weeks beginning from last Friday, January 8. The students said they had been gravely disturbed over the hike in fees, and so had been engaging all relevant authorities in and outside the university for intervention on the issue, but said their efforts had not yielded positive results. They listed the management team of the immediate past vice-chancellor of the university, Professor Olanrewaju Fagbohun who left the office on Monday, the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Education, Mr Wahab Tokunbo and the Chairman, Lagos House Committee on Education, Mr Olayinka Ogundimu, among other authorities, whose intervention they had sought on the matter. ....
Share FORMER Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Peter Okebukola and a former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo, Professor Abisogun Leigh, have openly declared that the outgoing Vice-Chancellor of LASU, Professor Olanrewaju Fagbohun did better for LASU than any of his predecessors. They gave the remarks separately at a recent valedictory lecture delivered by Professor Fagbohun, who by next Monday, January 11 would bow out of the institution, having completed his five-year single tenure as the eighth substantive vice-chancellor of LASU. Professor Okebukola, who is currently the Director of Africa Centre of Excellence for Innovative and Transformative STEM Education at LASU was a former vice-chancellor of the university in acting capacity and was there briefly, while Professor Leigh was the vice chancellor from 2001 to 2005. ....