UNILAG Gets New Acting Vice-Chancellor

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has named Prof Theophilus Omololu Soyombo as the acting the Vice-Chancellor of the institution.
It follows the removal of Prof Olawatoyin Ogundipe on Wednesday over “serious acts of wrongdoing, gross misconduct, financial recklessness and abuse of office”.
The governing council of the institution said it sacked him during a meeting presided over by the University’s Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Dr Wale Babalakin.
However, Prof Ogundipe, reacting to his removal said it was an “illegality” and urged the public to disregard “the mischievous disinformation”.
“Assuming without conceding, that the purported removal is true, the extant provisions of the law have not been complied with,” Prof Ogundipe said in a statement.
Prof Ogundipe insists he remains the Vice-Chancellor of the University.
In response, the council in a statement released on Thursday by its Registrar and Secretary, Esq. Oladejo Azeez maintained that Ogundipe has been removed as the Vice-chancellor of the University.
“The position remains that he was lawfully removed by the Governing Council at a meeting fully attended by all Council members.
“I also wish to use the opportunity to inform members of the public that Council at the said meeting duly appointed Professor Theophilus Omololu Soyomboof the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos as Vice Chancellor of the University in an Acting Capacity,” the statement read.