Professor Folasade Ogunsola has
secured the highest number of votes in the election held by members of the
University of Lagos Senate to choose an acting Vice-Chancellor.
She was the Deputy
Vice-Chancellor, Development Services at the UNILAG before her emergence.
The result of the election
obtained by one of our correspondents showed that she secured 135 of 167 votes.
Prof. Ben Ogbojafor, who was also
considered for the post by members of the Senate, secured 31 votes.
One void vote was recorded.
They were nominated at the senate
meeting held on Monday.
The meeting was attended by 167
professors.
Chairman of the Senate Emergency
Committee, Prof. Chioma Agomo, also announced the result to journalists after
the election.
NigerianEye earlier reported that
the Federal Government last week directed the varsity’s Pro-Chancellor and
Chairman of Council, Wale Babalakin, and Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin
Ogundipe, to recuse themselves from official duties, pending the outcome of the
Special Visitation Panel set up by the President, Major General Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.).
FG had also asked UNILAG Senate
to reconvene to appoint an acting VC.
According to her Wiki citation,
Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola was born in 1958. She is a professor of medical
microbiology who specializes in disease control, particularly HIV/AIDS.
Ogunsola was also an ex-provost
of College of Medicine, University of Lagos and is reputed as being the first woman
to occupy the position.
She became the Deputy Vice
Chancellor (Development Services) of the institution since 2017.
“Her research areas have been
centered on the regulation and management of viral diseases, particularly HIV.
“She is the principal investigator
at AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria (APIN) at the University of Lagos.
“She has also been the chairman
of Infection Control Committee of Lagos University Teaching Hospital.
Additionally, she is the chairman of the National Association of Colleges of
Medicine in Nigeria.
“In 2018, she expressed concern
on disease prevention and control in Nigeria. She identified poor hygiene and
overuse of antibiotics as practices that foster antimicrobial-drug resistance.
“Providing a solution, she
maintained that sustained Infection Prevention and Control infrastructure and
programmes should be built around a set of core components which include
guidelines, training, surveillance, multimodal strategies for implementing IPC,
monitoring and evaluation among others,” the citation added.
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