The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has inducted its first female vice chancellor Folashade Ogunsola.
The investiture is part of the 53rd Convocation ceremony held on the university campus.
On Friday, October 27, 2022, the governing council of the University of Lagos received report of the selection board and approved Professor Folashade Ogunsola as the 13th Vice Chancellor for a 5-year term with effect from November 12 2022.
Immediately after her investiture, she spoke on her agenda for the university community themed Future ready.
She highlighted the need for universities across the country to provide human capital to drive sustained economic growth.
Mrs Ogunsola said “The university mandate is to produce thinkers and change mindsets. The core products of universities are new knowledge, innovation, discoveries and fit for purpose human capital.
“If we want to develop a firstclass workforce with the right attitudes and values, we can, if we work together, the university, the government, the private sector, all of us sharing one vision that university education should become our pride”.
After the investiture, it was time for the lecture delivered by Chineye Mba-Uzoukwu titled Finding the boundaries of the possible, venturing beyond.
The guest lecturer stressed the need for technology to be deployed for 21st century learning.
He said “A study has been published that says it posits that about 8% of your population needs to have university degrees before they can significantly impact your GDP.
“We have to solve that problem by rapidly expanding our capacity. We maintain that we will never build enough classrooms. We also maintain that we may never have enough teachers, particularly at a basic education level, and certainly not enough teachers with the capacity and the capability that we need. So we need to find another way, another way to catalyze, another way to multiply, another way to accelerate access to quality education. And there is only one way that exists today.
“Only one phenomena has that capability, and that phenomena is technology”.
It was concluded at the event that there is a need for universities across the country to provide human capital to drive sustained economic growth.
Prof. Ogunsola took over from incumbent Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, who served for five years, on November 11, 2022.
Mrs Ogunsola will be the first female to hold this position in the nearly 60-year history of the university and its 13th Vice Chancellor.
She emerged the preferred person to be VC out of seven shortlisted candidates that went through a very keen selection process.
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