The Registrar of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State, David Awoyemi, has been directed to announce the reopening of the institution as soon as possible.
The school has been under lock and key due to appointment of a new Vice Chancellor, which some members of staff of the university kicked against.
According to reports, both administrative and academic activities may resume at OAU this week because of President Muhammadu Buhari’s intervention.
It was learnt that the President has asked the university’s members of the Senate to recommend one of them, who is capable of running the institution as a Vice-Chancellor in acting capacity, for Federal Government’s approval.
In a letter addressed to the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, through the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, the President directed the Senate not to consider any of the candidates who earlier contested for the position.
Authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, have shutdown the institution following protests by workers of the school over appointment of the institution’s new Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ayobami Salami. The university was closed on Wednesday indefinitely less than two days to the expiration of the tenure of the…
An Acting Vice Chancellor has been named for the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State. He is Professor Anthony Elujoba. Elujoba, 68, is a professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy. He defeated his colleague in the same department of the institution, Adebayo Lamikanra, to clinch the exalted position. Elujoba…
The Governor of Lagos State and the Visitor to the Lagos State University (LASU), Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the immediate dissolution of the Lagos State University Governing Council and a fresh process for the selection of the ninth substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University. The Lagos State Commissioner of Information,…
