The News Agency of Nigeria reports that this is in line with a promise made by Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, when she assumed duty on Sept. 20, 2021, as the ninth substantive Vice-Chancellor of LASU.
The VC announced the scholarship awards to 556 beneficiaries at a public lecture on the first anniversary of her assumption of office on Tuesday, in Lagos.Olatunji-Bello said that within a year, the administration, with the support of all stakeholders in LASU, had added three new faculties of science and a school.
Another is to “make the university a research, innovation and development hub for Lagos State and national development”. Olatunji-Bello reaffirmed the university’s commitment to providing a platform that engenders intellectual debates and proffers workable solutions to the deplorable state of education in Nigeria.“Indeed, given the dire state of higher education in the country today, no other discussion would have been more pressing.