The convocation ceremony was held at the popular J.F. Ade Ajayi Auditorium. When the auditorium was being built, General Yakubu Gowon, as the Head of State of Nigeria and Visitor to UNILAG, had arranged for Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia to be conferred with an honorary doctorate degree during his 1972 State Visit to Nigeria. The auditorium was named after the Emperor and the Library of the University of Lagos was named after his host as Yakubu Gowon Library.
Haile Selassie mediated, without success, during the Nigerian Civil War. He had played a pivotal role in realising the May 25, 1963 creation of the Organisation of African Unity , the precursor to the African Union .
The auditorium was full, and the ceremony was presided over by Alhaji Abubakar Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, the Shehu of Bornu, in his capacity as the chancellor of Unilag. The pro-chancellor and chairman of the Council of UNILAG, Prince Dr Olanrewaju Adeyemi Tejuoso, , was there with the registrar of the university, Oladejo Azeez, Esq., who also as a Great Akokite constantly reminded us of our being in the best university in the universe.
There were many other side shows, with one being the conferment of a PhD in Engineering on 70-year-old George Asuelinmen, a retiree. There was a lot of excitement about this stellar achievement which, goes to show that it’s better late than never. Almost all on the chancellor’s first row stood up in recognition of Dr George Asuelinmen and had photographs with a role model that would, in saner climes, have been conferred with a national honour.
I am on the side of due process and appreciate the Federal Government’s intervention that confirmed the violation of due process and rightly restored Professor Toyin Ogundipe as vice-chancellor. The visitor needs to urgently release the findings of the Panel of inquiry and vindicate Professor Ogundipe or confirm the several allegations on his management of the University of Lagos.
We all know that Nigeria is worse off than when President Buhari came to power in 2015. There is general apathy in the presidentP’s fight against corruption. Compliance with the UN’s Convention Against Corruption that we signed on to has been thrown overboard by his Attorney-General, who has acted like his predecessor on that issue. Of course, I know he would tell me he set up a committee on implementing UNCAC in 2017.
Nigeria's performance on TI 's corruption_index has just been announced as worse. MBuhari thinks we are fools when he told the world at unilag that he has done well on anti-CORRUPTION fight. amehuniversal ChidiOdinkalu RealBanjo aina_akin bunmimakinwa Yadeyemi
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