A recent protest by Lasu Undergraduates (photo credit: PremiumTimes)
In what might gladdens the hearts of past students (both in main and external campuses) of the Institution, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, new vice-chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU) has given a reassurance that the ivory tower will expedite action on backlog of outstanding degrees and certificates in in the next four months.
Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos recently, Fagbohun explained that a task force would be put in place to resolve the perennial issue of backlog of certificates at the university’s External System.
Prof Olanrewaju Fagbohun
According to him, the management is aware of the problems in the system and is making all efforts to resolving them.
“The task force will search for the profile of students, identify the problems and proffer a solution to them”, he said.
The VC said that he had met with representatives of students from all campuses of the institution for cooperation toward resolving the problem.
He explained that he was still using his office at the new faculty of science “because the building is central and as the VC, I can operate from anywhere”, pending the renovation at the Administrative Block.
Fagbohun told NAN that peace had returned to LASU because every member of the community was working together.
He said the nation had no reason to panic because of LASU. “The present administration is working assiduously to restore the lost glory of the institution.
LASU is an institution with staff and students full of potentials. It is an institution bubbling with students that have fantastic skills and ideas to be explored by the world”, the VC said.
NAN recalls that some students of the university’s External System (LASUES) had protested against non-release of their certificates for the past 10 years after graduation.
Some of them complained that they could not get jobs because they could not present their certificates.
Others, who were working, said they were sacked for their inability to produce their certificates.
Others claimed that they were not promoted by their employers because they could not prove their academic status.
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