The senate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has elected Folasade Ogunsola as acting vice chancellor, making her the first woman to hold the position. Ogunsola secured 135 votes to defeat Ben Ogbojafor, who polled 31 votes.
Until her election, Ogunsola was the institution’s deputy vice-chancellor for development services. She was also the former provost of the institution’s College of Medicine.
Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the suspended VC of the institution, was earlier removed by the varsity’s governing council during a meeting presided over by Wale Babalakin, its pro-chancellor and chairman.
The council had thereafter named Omololu Soyombo as the acting VC.
President Muhammadu Buhari had directed Ogundipe and Babalakin to step aside and allow the senate of the university to nominate a new acting vice-chancellor.
Reacting to the directive in a statement on Saturday, Soyombo said he had stepped down “with immediate effect” in obedience to the directive of the president.
UNILAG, one of the nation’s first generation universities was founded in 1962.
