Members of the University of Lagos Senate on Monday elected Professor Folasade Ogunsola as the acting Vice-Chancellor of the school.
Professor Folasade Ogunsola emerged the acting VC after securing 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 UNILAG before her emergence.
She vied for the position alongside another Deputy Vice-Chancellors from Management Services.
Out of the 167 senate members who voted at the exercise, 135 voted for DVC Development Services while DVC Management Services got 31 votes, one voided vote was recorded.
The Senate Emergency Committee Chairman, Professor Chioma Agomo who spoke after the election said due process was followed in electing the new acting VC as directed by the Federal Government.
This election follows the Federal Government’s directive that the University’s Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Wale Babalakin, and Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, recuse themselves from official duties, pending the outcome of the panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari.
FG had also asked UNILAG Senate to reconvene to appoint an acting VC.
According to a Wiki citation, Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola was born in 1958. She is a professor of medical microbiology who specialises in disease control, particularly HIV/AIDS.
Ogunsola was also an ex-provost of the 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 in 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 at the University of Lagos.
“She has also been the chairman of the 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.