Professor Folashade Ogunsola
The Senate of the University of Lagos, Akoka in Lagos has elected Professor Folasade Ogunsola as Acting Vice Chancellor of the institution.
She is the first female to be so appointed in the history of the 58-year-old ivory institution.
Her emergence followed presidential directive to the Senate to appoint an Acting Vice Chancellor pending the conclusion of investigations by the Visitation Panel to resolve the leadership crisis in the institution.
Mrs. Ogunsola, a professor of medical microbiology and first child of Nigeria’s first professor of Geography, Akin Mabogunje, was also the first female provost of the university’s college of medicine, Idi-Araba.
She defeated her opponent and a deputy vice-chancellor in charge of management services, Ben Oghojafor, with a wide margin. She scored 135 votes as against Oghojafor’s 31 among the senate members.
A total of 167 professors were accredited for voting while one vote was voided.
Ogunsola is the first woman to be the Provost College of Medicine University of Lagos before she became DVC.