BREAKING: Tight Security At UNILAG As Senate Meets

• Senate meets at Ade Ajayi Main auditorium to discuss the removal of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as Vice Chancellor by the Governing Council in Abuja on Wednesday.

Tight Security around the Senate building of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) as its Senate meets to discuss the sudden removal of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as Vice Chancellor by the Governing Council in Abuja on Wednesday, Ekohotblog reports

Our correspondent learned that the meeting is currently held at the Ade Ajayi Main auditorium

Prof Theophilus Soyombo of the Faculty of Science was announced Acting Vice Chancellor in the wee hours of Thursday by the Registrar and Secretary to Council, Mr. Oladejo Azeez.

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Ekohotblog learned that access to the Senate Building, the administrative hub of the University, housing the offices of the Vice Chancellor, other principal officers as well as the Senate Chamber, was restricted.

Visitors and members of staff without offices in the building were not allowed in.

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are also scheduled to hold a Congress to debate Ogundipe’s removal.

Our correspondent learned that ASUU warned Soyombo not to resume as VC.

But a source said Soyombo described his appointment as a “call to service”.

 

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