UNILAG Crisis: Governing Council rejects directive of education minister

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, and the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Wale Babalakin, are set on a collision course over the crisis in the institution.

This follows the rejection by the university’s Governing Council of a directive by the minister for it to pause the ongoing probe of the university’s management.

The Babalakin-led governing council has been on a warpath with UNILAG’s management over its decision to probe the university’s finances, probe the collapse of an uncompleted library, and investigate other alleged improprieties of the university’s vice-chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and other top officials of the institution.

Read more: PREMIUM TIMES, May 22, 2019

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