UNILAG Council chooses Professor Ołuwatoyin Ogundipe as twelfth Vice-Chancellor

University of Lagos Council has designated Professor Ołuwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe the twelfth substantive Vice-Chancellor of the establishment.

Professor Ołuwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe

This came toward the finish of the University Governing Council's meeting yesterday, Friday, 27th, where the Council affirmed his arrangement of as UNILAG Vice-Chancellor.

In a discharge by the school's data unit, the three competitors that challenged were: Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, Professor Olukayode Amund, and Professor Ayodeji Olukoju.

Among the three hopefuls, Ogundipe incidentally scored the most astounding imprint in the activity to rose the substantive Vice-Chancellor of UNILAG.

Educator Ołuwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe until his arrangement, was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics and Research) of the college.

He is a Professor in the Department of Botany and furthermore the Director of Academic Planning at the University of Lagos. He was conceived on May 31, 1960. He is hitched and favored with three kids.

Ogundipe was named educator 2002, and gave his inaugural address in 2005 six months after the declaration of his residency titled Botany: Root in the Past, Route to the Future, conveyed on the December 21, 2005, at the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.

Ogundipe is an individual from numerous logical associations. He is a Life part, International Society of Plant Morphologist, Fellow of Cohort 9 of the Leadership for Environment and Development, and the Linnaean Society, London. He is an analyst for some logical scholastic diaries and outer inspector to numerous colleges including University of Johannesburg. He has been on the accreditation group to numerous colleges in Nigeria and Ghana. He is a Professorial Assessor to numerous colleges including University of Ghana.

He has distributed more than 70 explore articles in different prominent companion audited diaries both locally and universally and has co-wrote six investigated books. He is a three-time co-beneficiary of the University of Lagos, Faculty of Science Best Researcher Award.

He was an Adjunct Professor to the Department of Biology, Central Michigan University, Michigan. In the vicinity of 2004 and 2006, he appreciated Royal Society of London, Lennoix-Boyd Memorial Trust and Bentham-Moxon Trust sponsorship to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K. He has taken an interest in a few ecological counseling ventures with oil organizations. The synopsis of Professor Ogundipe's exploration is in conveying biodiversity information to the world, and the utilization of dust and spore proof to understanding examples of development.

Then, the active eleventh Vice-Chancellor, Professor Rahmon Bello is relied upon to abandon the eleventh floor office on the eleventh November, 2017, as Ogundipe expect office.