JUST IN: UNILAG lecturers protest against Babalakin over convocation...

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Led by the union’s chairman, Dele Ashiru, the lecturers, who were armed with leaves and placards, said they had passed a vote of no confidence in Mr Babalakin. But Mr Babalakin has denied that he travelled to UK for any ceremony. He said he is currently on medical trip to Germany. Mr Babalakin in his series of letters to the university management, said the council only approved the budget of N70 million presented for the ceremony but that the list of the three beneficiaries of honourary awards and the series of programmes lined up for the ceremony were not approved by the council.In its first reaction to the development, ASUU condemned the postponement, describing it as “unfair, insensitive and overbearing.

“Otherwise, how else can one explain the role of the pro-chancellor in the calamitous postponement of a convocation ceremony without any consideration for the psychological trauma this may cause the graduands, their parents, relatives, the image and reputation of the university? This is apart from the huge human, material and financial resources that have been committed to planning the ceremony.

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