Sanwo Olu, others hail outgoing UNILAG VC

Distinguished Nigerians together with the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Ooni of Ife, Enitan Ogunwunsi; Akarigbo of Remo Land, Babatunde Ajayi; Chairwoman of Entry Financial institution Plc, Ajoritsedere Awosika; Chief Govt Officer of Troyka Holdings Restricted, Biodun Shobanjo; Chairman of the Governing Council of College of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Lanre Tejuoso, and the Founding father of Trinity Home, Ituah Ighodalo, amongst others, had been readily available at Eko Resorts and Suites in Lagos on Thursday in honour of the outgoing twelfth substantive Vice-Chancellor of UNILAG, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.

It was lower than 48 hours to the tip of Mr Ogundipe’s “turbulent” five-year tenure because the college’s helmsman, and the dignitaries had assembled to launch a ebook written to chronicle his scorecard and the occasions that characterised the turbulence that nearly value him his workplace.

The general public presentation of the ebook titled: “The Captain, Steering the Ship Above Murky Waters,” was chaired by the instant previous Chairperson of the Governing Council of Obafemi Awolowo College (OAU), Ile-Ife, Yemi Ogunbiyi, who counseled Mr Ogundipe for the excellence recorded regardless of the disaster his administration witnessed.

Mr Ogunbiyi in his welcome remarks, mentioned: “I do know there’s a lot discuss the truth that he had a turbulent 5 years. Let’s overlook the previous.

“Let’s take a look at what he did within the quick time frame he was there as vice-chancellor. He excelled and that’s what issues. Let’s put the challenges he confronted behind us. Let’s take a look at what he achieved inside that quick time frame.

“All I need to say to him is that you simply stay your self, there’s life after being a vice-chancellor, stay your self, stay the type of individual you might be, humble, form and conscious of others’ wants.”

Sanwo-Olu speaks

In his comment, the governor of Lagos State, Mr Sanwo-Olu hailed Mr Ogundipe for placing “the college on a platform that’s now the envy of not solely in Nigeria, in Africa and certainly on this planet”.

“To start to focus on the stewardship, the management because the twelfth vice-chancellor of the College of Lagos is starting to think about what has been his journey within the final 5 years.

“As an alumna of the college myself, I can attest firsthand that in his tenure, we’ve seen large strides, significant impacts, purposeful governance, administration par excellence of this man,” he mentioned.

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He mentioned the ebook will highlight his administration on the college as “he held his head up as a captain, because the chief of this establishment within the final 5 years and has been capable of step even with stormy water, dangerous climate, and with a totally unpredictable final result.”

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“And we can not however surprise, a person that grew to become a professor on the younger age of 42, to a person that left science and obtained all of his diploma in Enterprise Administration, and different areas that others wouldn’t have ventured in. And I say to you that you simply had been properly ready. And God gave you the enablement. Not solely are you a person of God, however you might be additionally a servant of God and all of those complimentary issues are the issues which have helped you to have come out with none blemish, with none stain and your head raised up excessive at this very tough time of the nation,” the governor added.

Mr Sanwo-Olu additionally famous that the ebook would reveal and showcase the stewardship and all the issues that he has gone by way of.

“I’m certain it would make a great learn, will probably be one thing that every one of us will take classes from that can form our lives in higher kind,” he mentioned.

Extra accolades

The Chairman of the organising committee for the occasion and a longstanding buddy of Mr Ogundipe, Lekan Ajisafe, mentioned: “The ebook is a superb murals that showcases the life and achievement of an incredible icon. I’m grateful that we are able to rejoice him whereas he’s with us and present the world how a lot his gentle has radiated folks’s lives.

“All of us can attest to the truth that highway of life isn’t a clean one. It comes with its ups and downs, even in the intervening time after we least count on it.”

Mr Ajisafe mentioned solely the robust and resilient can get to the tip of the tunnel in life “with God by their facet”.

“I do know that at one level or the opposite God has given Professor Ogundipe limes, however one sure factor I learn about him is that he’s obtained that capacity to make lemonade out of that lime. I guarantee you that you’ll study so much from the lifetime of the captain himself,” he added.

The ebook

The reviewer of the ebook, one other longstanding buddy of the celebrator, Kolawole Kassim, a professor, famous that “the ebook is an account of the five-year stewardship of Mr Ogundipe, and a useful resource materials “for individuals who are prepared to faucet from the immense expertise of a quintessential administrator.”

He mentioned: “The ebook is a 210-page photograph ebook authored by Mr Ogundipe, supported by seven different cerebral contributors. It’s a six chapters photograph ebook designed to current in pictorial kind the a number of tasks, actions or stripes taken by Mr Vice Chancellor and his crew to reposition the College of Lagos because the College of first alternative in Nigeria.

“In contrast to the standard personal enterprise setting association the place the organisation will set the milestone to be achieved by the potential supervisor, Mr Vice Chancellor, on his personal and by himself was answerable for setting the milestone.

“Photobooks are a good way to show your photographs and can help you inform the tales.”

Mr Kazeem, the instant previous Provost of the Osun State School of Training, Ilesa, added that the writer recognized six cardinal factors with a deal with his five-year plan within the chapters, which he famous embody “uncompromising tutorial requirements and glorious analysis output, networking globally, and bettering the college funds,” amongst others.

About Ogundipe

Mr Ogundipe was born on 31 Might 1960. He attended Obafemi Awolowo College (OAU), the place he obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Botany.

He additionally holds a Grasp’s in Botany from OAU and a doctorate (PhD) from the identical college.

He proceeded to the College of Lagos to acquire a Grasp’s in Enterprise Administration.

Mr Ogundipe started his tutorial profession on the College of Lagos as a lecturer 1 the place he rose to the rank of professor of Botany in 2002.

He was appointed because the vice-chancellor of the College of Lagos in November 2017. Till his appointment, he was the deputy vice-chancellor on the campus.

Mr Ogundipe was eliminated because the Vice-Chancellor of the College of Lagos by the college’s governing council following accusations of monetary impropriety and gross misconduct. He was, nevertheless, reinstated by President Muhammadu Buhari based mostly on the advice of an investigative panel which discovered that the removing didn’t observe due course of.