Yusuf achieved an outstanding CGPA of 5.00, earning a First Class Honours degree.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, disclosed this information during the convocation press conference held on Wednesday.

The event will also commemorate the institution’s 40th anniversary, established in 1983.

Additionally, Olatunji-Bello announced that Divine Lopez, from the Department of Physiology at the Lagos State University College of Medicine, achieved a CGPA of 4.91 and was recognized as the best graduating student for the 2020/2021 academic session, also earning a First Class Honours degree.

The convocation ceremony, scheduled for June 20, 2023, will feature a lecture titled ‘The impact of digitisation on higher education in the digital age,’ delivered by Mr. Sonny Echono, the Executive Secretary of the Trust Fund.

Furthermore, the Vice-Chancellor revealed that eight distinguished Nigerians would be awarded honorary doctorate degrees during the convocation.

The recipients include former Governor Babatunde Fashola, Oba Alayeluwa Ademola Elegushi, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Chief of Staff Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, Oba Suleiman Ashade, and Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire.

Additionally, the management gave lecturers instructions to make sure that no pupils are dressed indecently and are not admitted into the classrooms.

The University cautioned that it is no longer satisfied with the students’ on-campus persistent contempt for its laws and regulations regarding the manner of clothing in a statement released by Olaniyi Jeariogbe, temporary head of the Centre for Information.

The statement said the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, had informed the College Provost, Deans of Faculties and Heads of Departments, as well as faculty officers both in the main and satellite campuses to join hands to enforce the new dressing rules.

The fifteen indecent dressing codes outlined by the Institution include wearing transparent dresses, dirty jeans with holes or obscene subliminal messages, mini and skimpy skirts/dresses, and other clothes revealing sensitive parts of the body, particularly by ladies, tattered clothes, “baggy”, “saggy”, “yansh”, “ass level”, and all other forms of indecent trousers.

Others are shirts and tops with obscene write-ups, tight-fitting apparel, rolling of sleeves or flying of shirt collars, obnoxious or seductive inscription; improperly buttoned shirts dresses, shirts without buttons, complete covering of faces (very dark glasses) or wearing of face caps; piercing of body and tattooing; wearing of necklace and earrings by male students, wearing of very big dropping earrings, wearing of necklaces and nose ring by students.

The school management also warned against distractive knocking of shoes like stiletto heels to the library and lecture rooms, plaiting, weaving or bonding of hair by male students. Lousy slippers, unkempt, brightly tinted hair/eyelashes/brown, extremely bogus hair or coloured artificial hair, artificial dreadlocks, fixing of long nails as well as fixing of long eyelashes.

He said the initiative would be an autonomous funding mechanism that would keep all three Lagos tertiary institutions on the path of sustainability.

Sanwo-Olu made the announcement when he received members of the Visitation Panel to LASU led by the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Abdulrahman Bello, at the State House, Marina.

This was contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, titled, ‘Sanwo-Olu floats autonomous financing channel for Lagos’ tertiary schools, sets up dedicated trust fund’.

According to Sanwo-Olu, the move will creatively revolutionise the model for the funding of tertiary education in the country.

Sanwo-Olu said the need to create an independent funding channel for the state’s tertiary institutions became pertinent, given the nature of disputes characterising the national university system which had led to the perennial staff strikes and closure of campuses across the country.

The governor said the fund would be a pragmatic strategy to meet the schools’ requirements.

Sanwo-Olu, however, directed the Attorney General, Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN, and the Special Adviser on Education, Hon. Tokunbo Wahab, to fashion out the statutory framework that will give legal approval to the Fund.

He said: “Now that we have three universities in Lagos, I believe there is a need for us to set up Lagos State Tertiary Education Trust Fund, which, in our view, will create a sustainable model and the funding that is required, both internally and externally, to strengthen academic research, learning and all that is necessary to keep these universities on track of their mission.

“This is an idea whose time has come at the appropriate period many schools are under closure due to industrial disputes. I am issuing the responsibility to Attorney General and Special Adviser on Education to create the legal framework for the birth of the Trust Fund. This will be another legacy initiative our Government is bringing to sustain education in our State. This will create a financial model that will ensure sustainability of these schools.”

Sanwo-Olu said the Trust Fund would create an additional funding source to the three universities, aside the monthly subventions and intervention funds from federal education agencies, including Tertiary Education Trust Fund.

He was aged 75

According to a statement posted on its official LASU Facebook page on Monday, Hussein died after a brief illness in the evening of Sunday, July,31, 2022.

Hussein,  a professor of Physics was the sixth Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University; he served between 2005 and 2011.

The deceased is expected to be buried today,  Monday, August 1,2022, according to Islamic rites.

President of the Student Union Government, LASU, Comrade Oladipupo Uthman Badmus, said this when the governor visited the school on Thursday.

Sanwo-Olu who inaugurated a new Students’ Arcade at the school was welcomed by the SUG President, Speaker of the Students Union Representatives, Rt. Hon. Mustapha Adejuwon, and hundreds of students

The students who commended Sanwo-Olu’s giant strides in the state, especially in the education sector, said they would embark on the walk with the governor for peace and prosperity of the state

The Walk of Peace which, according to Sanwo-Olu, will “herald the healing of the land,” will likely have in attendance some notable members and activists of the EndSARS campaign.

The Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu and Commander of Rapid Response Squad, CSP Yinka Egbeyemi, will also embark on the walk.

Olatunji-Bello has served as Acting Vice-Chancellor of the institution before her elevation. She is the wife of the Secretary to the Lagos State government, Tunji Bello.

Born in Lagos on the 23 of April 1964 into the family of Chief and Mrs Eniola Ibidapo, from Owo in Ondo State, Olatunji-Bello had her primary education at the Anglican Girls Primary School and secondary education at the Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School both in Surulere and Lagos State College of Science and Technology.

She proceeded to the University of Ibadan where she bagged a BSc in Physiology.

Ibiyemi took up a job as a lecturer and rose through the ranks in the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Idiaraba. She assumed duty as the first Professor of Physiology in Lagos State University College of Medicine on October 2, 2007.

She is happily married to Tunji Bello, a journalist and lawyer, and the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, and the former Secretary to Lagos State Government. They are blessed with 3 children.

The new VC is the Area Pastor in charge of the Testimony Chapel, an area under Lagos Province 1 of the Redeemed Christian Church of God(RCCG).

Ogunbowale who has been suspended by LASU over the case reportedly committed the offence alongside others who are at large, on April 18, 2018, at Okokomaiko area of Lagos.

Testifying in court on November 4, 2019, the two rape victims revealed that they lost their virginities to the attack. The victims who disclosed they were robbed of their phones, power bank, earpiece, gold chain and N1, 200 by five men but raped by two members of the gang, Ogunbowale and another who is at large, said they were able to identify the convict who is in the same faculty with them through Facebook.

Though it was alleged that the suspect confessed to the crime and prostrated to beg for forgiveness when confronted at the police station, he however denied involvement in the crime and gave an alibi to the court. He claimed he was in school preparing for an examination which was to begin in May 2018 on the night of the attack.

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of Ikeja Special Offences Court who passed judgement on the case on Tuesday, June 29, said Ogunbowale was found guilty of conspiracy, rape and armed robbery.

Taiwo held that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt and further noted that the testimony of the victims was compelling.

Special Adviser to the Governor on Education announced this via Twitter post on Friday.

“Flash: Lagos State government reduces tuition fee for students of Lagos,” the tweet read.

The reduction comes in a time when the country is going through economic challenges due to the impact of COVID-19 .

Flash: Lagos State government reduces tuition fee for students of Lagos State University @LASUOfficial. @jidesanwoolu@TokunboWahab@gboyegaakosile@Mr_JAGs#Education #ForAGreaterLagos pic.twitter.com/RF5sxJrvmw

— SA Education (@osaelagos) January 29, 2021

This was contained in a statement on Thursday by the Coordinator, Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations, Lagos State University (LASU), Ademola Adekoya.

Adekoya announced that roommates and associates of the three students have been isolated and would also be tested for the virus.

The statement read in part: “All students of the college have been advised to proceed home to self-isolate for the next fourteen days from where their health status will be monitored by the college through phone calls.

“The hostel facilities have been closed immediately for decontamination and contact tracing have commenced.”

LASU also advised students who show COVID-19 symptoms at home to contact the college through dedicated lines for assistance and treatment.

“The college is also providing psychological support for the three students who tested positive and their roommates.

“Parents, guardians and the general public are assured that the safety of all staff and students is a top priority,” the statement added.

Adekoya said that LASU management would continue to enforce compliance with COVID-19 guidelines and advised everyone to observe all health guidelines.

This followed a meeting held with leaders of the staff unions in the institutions by officials of the state government in Ikeja on Tuesday.

This was disclosed in a statement by the Special Adviser on Education to the Governor, Mr Tokunbo Wahab.

According to him, the state government said the payment was part of its efforts to maintain peace on the campuses.

Wahab reiterated the commitment of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to according education and workers welfare top priority.

Among the tertiary institutions whose workers will benefit from the development are Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, the Lagos State Polytechnic, LASPOTECH, Ikorodu, the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, ACOED, Ijanikin, the Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Epe among others.

Recall that the staff unions of the institutions had on Monday protested the non-payment of N30,000 monthly minimum wage to their members and locked the gates to the instructions.

The Vice-Chancellor of LASU, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, SAN, was among top management staff of LASU not allowed into the campus by the protesting workers on Monday.

The staff unions involved are the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT.

Others are the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics, SSANIP and the College of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU among others.