The Adekunle Ajasin University in Ondo State has reduced tuition fees of students three years after it increased it by over 300 percent. The university said that Governor Akeredolu directed that the fees should be reduced considering the economic effect of COVID-19 on parents and students. The move by Akeredolu is coming few weeks before he contests in an election for a second term. Governor Akeredolu had in 2018, approved the increase of tuition fees...

A Special Visitation panel set up by the Federal government to investigate the crisis at the top management of the University of Lagos is expected to submit its report in the next two weeks following its inauguration in Abuja on Wednesday. The Minister of Education Mallam Adamu Adamu, who inaugurated the panel on behalf of President Buhari explained that the government had to set up the panel to look into the crisis because other interventions...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Channels Television, Mr. John Momoh, as the acting chairman of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Governing Council. The is contained in a letter dated August 21, 2020, and signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono. The letter which is titled, ‘Emergency Meeting of the Governing Council of University of Lagos’ with reference number FME/PS/606/C.1/III/129, charged Momoh to convene an...

The Federal government has waded into the crisis between the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Toyin Ogundipe and the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the institution’s Governing Council, Dr. Wale Babalakin. The Governing Council had sacked Professor Ogundipe over allegations of abuse of office and financial misconduct. Ogundipe denied the allegations and accused the Governing Council of removing him unfairly. He was replaced with Professor Theophilus Soyombo, who has since resumed. In a...

The acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Theophilus Soyombo, said on Wednesday when he resumed duty, that it was important for members of staff to leave the university better than they met it. Professor Soyombo had been appointed as the acting VC following the sack of Professor Ogundipe by the Governing Council last week over alleged abuse of office and financial misconduct. At the Senate building, the VC addressed some workers who...