Sanwo-Olu Approves Appointment Of LASU Vice-Chancellor

September 16, 2021
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LAGOS State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the appointment of Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello as the 9th substantive Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU).

Professor Bello was appointed following recommendation of LASU’s Council and Senate Joint Committee, in accordance with the university’s Law, Cap 169 Vol. 7, Laws of Lagos State.

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Bello became the First Professor of Physiology in LASU College of Medicine in October 2007 after rising through the ranks from Assistant Lecturer (1988 to 1991) to Associate Professor in 2005 at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Idi-Araba campus.

In 2012, she attended Course 34 of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, the highest policy advisory body of the Federal Government, as a nominee of the National Universities Commission.

She is a Member of the National Institute (mni), and was also appointed a Fellow of the Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Mitigation in the year 2019.

She has also bagged Fellowship Award of the Physiological Society of Nigeria.

The tenure of the 8th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun, ended on January 11, 2021.

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