Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, Tuesday, signed a bill into
law converting the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, to a residential
institution, as well as approving 70 years retirement age for professors
of the institution.
Lagos State University
The law, LASU (Amendment) Bill 2015, also approved a five-year single term for the Vice Chancellor of the institution.
Over the last few years, there has been a running battle between the
institution’s chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,
with the immediate-past Vice Chancellor, Prof. John Obafunwa, over
demands that the school approves 70 years as retirement age for
professors, single term of five years for Vice Chancellor, among others.
Signing the bill into law at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest
Nigeria on Tuesday, Ambode said the amended law is aimed at raising the
standard of the school to an enviable position and a school that people
would be proud of.