UNILAG crisis: FG removes Babalakin, Ogundipe, constitutes Visitation Panel, orders Senate to appoint Acting VC

President Muhammadu Buhari, as Visitor to the University of Lagos, has constituted a Visitation Panel to look into the crisis in the university.

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On Friday, the President took the following additional decisions:

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1. The Panel is to submit its report within two weeks.

LIST OF APPLICATIONS FOR REGULARISATION OF AREA COUNCIL LAND DOCUMENTS NULLIFIED/CANCELLED BY THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF FCT

2. The Pro-Chancellor, Dr Wale Babalakin, SAN and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, have been suspended from office as they are both to recuse themselves from performing their functions in office during the period of the Visitation.

3. The Senate is to convene urgently and appoint an Acting Vice-Chancellor for the university.
With this decision, the President has sacked the Acting Vice-Chancellor purportedly appointed by the Babalakin-led Council.