In the compendium of 340 pages, edited by some scholars ably lead by the University of Lagos Deputy Vice Chancellor , Professor L.O. Chukwu, there is a story. In the anthology to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Professor Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe, ‘OTO’ as he is fondly called, you will read a lot of remarkable things about the 12th Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos.
The book takes you through OTO’s fulfilled mission and vision for what they would like to call the University of First Choice, and the Nation’s Pride as the chief executive officer. You will enjoy a chronicle of a significant life of a retired soldier’s son who may not have been prominent in the media, but quite significant as Rick Warren, author of a classic, The Purpose Driven Life would have described him.
The audacity of Toyin’s resilience is quite remarkable in a way. The simple man who set out to study Pharmacy at the University of Ife was offered admission to study Botany, a course he actually did not apply to study. He attempted to change to Pharmacy in year two, but at the 11th hour, the Professor who was to facilitate the change died.
Sooner or later, you will read in the book that when OTO decided to become an academic, he first submitted his application to another university, outside Akoka. But fate blew him to the University of Lagos. He got appointment in 1990 as a Lecturer I instead of Lecturer II he has steadily risen through the ranks to become a full Professor in 2002.
You will read in this subset another background of OTO: Having learned the rudiments of scientific research through his undergraduate project, Ogundipe went on to serve his motherland and gave back to the society by serving as Senior Science Teacher under the Rivers State Teaching Service Commission, between 1984 and 1985. The experience instilled in him the desire to make academics his career.
Moreover, what Nigerian universities need most are excellence centres to collate worldwide research, not research itself because Nigerians neither have the finance nor the ingenuity to conduct worthwhile research in the modern world. Israel with a population of 9.4 million people boasts of 14 Nobel laureates, while Nigeria with 200 million people has only one Nobel Prize winner.
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