The Deputy
Vice-Chancellor (Development Services) polled 135 votes compared to Prof Ben
Oghojafor’s 31 votes.
Prof Folasade
Ogunsola has been elected as the Acting Vice Chancellor of the University of
Lagos, UNILAG.
She was
elected among 167 professors at the Senate meeting, who voted to find
replacement for the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olutoyin Ogundipe who was asked to
step down as the Federal Government inaugurated a panel to look into the crisis
rocking the institution.
It was
gathered one vote was declared void.
Ogunsola,
born in 1958, is a Nigerian professor of medical microbiology. She specialises
in disease control, particularly HIV/AIDS. Ogunsola is also the immediate past
provost of College of Medicine, University of Lagos and is reputed as being the
first woman to occupy the position.
She obtained
her first degree from University of Ife. She got a master’s degree from College
of Medicine, University of Lagos, then proceeded for her doctorate at University
of Wales between 1992–97.
Ogunsola was
the provost of College of Medicine, University of Lagos. 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 (APIN) at University of Lagos. She has also been the
chairman of 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 over use of antibiotics as practices that foster
antimicrobial-drug resistance. Providing a solution, she maintained that
“sustained Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) infrastructure and programs
should be built around a set of core components which includes guidelines,
training, surveillance, multi-modal strategies for implementing IPC, monitoring
and evaluation among others.”
Speaking during
a session with the media, she explained that the solution to reducing the 58%
unemployment rate was for Nigerian graduates to begin innovating ideas that
will enhance human life. She also noted that knowledge in itself isn’t
sufficient, but its application in an appropriate manner to better mankind and
enhance livelihood of others is what youths should be concerned about.
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