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- ItemOpen AccessMinutes of the first meeting of the senate held in the office of the Dean of Commerce and Business Administration in the temporary site of the University at Idi-Araba(1962-11) Wolf, S.KThe Senate received Senate Paper No. 1 containing the composition ani functions of Senate as in Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the University of Lagos Act, 1962. In reply to an enquiry about academic appcdrrtmerrtaj the Chairma~ said that the Provisional Council had delegated authori~ for making appointments to non-professorial posts to the Senate. For the posts of Registrar, Librarian, professors, and heads of academic departments, the po~er to appoint was delegated to a joint committee of the Senate and the Council. For senior administrative posts, the appointing body is a Council Committeeto uhich appropriate Universi~ staff are ,co-opted as necessary.
- ItemOpen AccessUniversity of Lagos Convocation Speeches(The Information Unit, University of Lagos, Akoka, 1983-01) Adesola, A.OFull papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessUniversity of Lagos Convocation Speeches(The Information Unit, University of Lagos, Akoka, 1985-01) Mbanefo, A.CFull papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessUniversity of Lagos Convocation Speeches(The Information Unit, University of Lagos, Akoka, 1986-01) Mbanefo, A.CFull papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessUniversity of Lagos Convocation Speeches(The Information Unit, University of Lagos, Akoka, 1987-01-14) Adesola, A.OFull papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessBrief Statement of the University Vice Chancellor's Address to the Special Senate to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the 1st Senat Sitting on November 13, 2002(University of lagos, Akoka, 2002-11-13) Ibidapo-Obe, O.It is my pleasure and privilege to welcome you all to the Special Senate Meeting to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the 1st sitting of this Senate. In 40 years, this Senate has grown from a population of 5 to 248. This ceremony therefore forms a most significant aspect of our 40th Anniversary celebrations - the Senate is the nucleus of all University activities; it is a non-variant indicator of the health of the University. We are determined to restore Senate to its full glory, conscious at all times to its responsibilities and duties to ensure that the quality of our products is second to none.
- ItemOpen AccessHistory and Society(University of Lagos Press, 2004-12-07) Ade Ajayi, J.F.My aim in this lecture, is to urge that we take a moment to analyse what is really wrong with our society and to suggest what we can and should be doing about it. The degree of violence and instability in our society is intolerable. It is no longer strange to hear that a number of students have used matchets to kill fellow students of the same institution on campus. There are always rumours that some people sacrifice their children in the search for wealth. And the number of corpses that turn up at shrines may be proof of this. Armed robbery and political assassinations are rampant. Business enterprises collapse because no one trusts any other, not even his brother or sister, to play fair. There is such instability and unpredictability that it becomes very difficult to initiate policies that could be sustained for a year or two before "unforeseen circumstances" necessitate a revision, if not reversion. The IMF prescribed Structural Adjustment. We tried it and the present regime goes from one reform agenda to another, but we remain ill at ease
- ItemOpen AccessUniversity of Lagos, VC's Report for NUC University System: Annual Review Meeting 2005(University of Lagos Press, Akoka, 2005-10)Full papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessUNILAG Vice-Chancellor’s Report for NUC University System Annual Review Meeting 2007(University of Lagos Press, Akoka, 2007-07) Vice, ChancellorFull papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessHealth Research for Improved Health Care in Nigeria: Matters Arising(UNILAG Press, 2008-01-22) Salako, L.I feel greatly honoured to be considered worthy of being invit by this great university to give its Convocation Lecture for thi year. An occasion like this can be used by the lecturer to review his own contribution to society on one or more of his fields of endeavour. It can also be used to assess societal situation in the lecturer's areas of interest and proffer opinions on preferred future directions. I have chosen something in between. Having spent most of my working life in the field of health research, it occurred to me that I might use the opportunity afforded by this occasion to reflect on health research in our country, the successes and failures, the satisfactions and disappointments, the pleasures and problems, the lessons we have learnt and how we might proceed from where we are now.
- ItemOpen AccessUNILAG Vice-Chancellor’s Report for NUC University System Annual Review Meeting 2009(University of Lagos Press, Akoka, 2009-08) Vice, ChancellorFull papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessA Dream Come True, not a Nightmare(University of Lagos Press, Akoka, 2010-01-10) Odugbemi, TFull papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessVice Chancellor’s Report for NUC University System Annual Review Meeting 2010(University of Lagos Press, Akoka, 2010-08) Vice, ChancellorFull Papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessUnilag and University Missions: Past, Future and the Globe(UNILAG Press, 2011-01-13) Alao, N.O.This lecture is designed to serve three purposes. The first is to advocate a more balance reflection on the achievement of this great institution by urging a new focus upon its mission and a placement in appropriate international institutional cohorts. The second is to argue that the current administration's concern with the institution's global ranking is well-placed and to suggest useful internal assessment schemes that may be helpful. Those who think that our first generation universities are mere local champions need to be reminded that today's global champions were themselves local champions for a long time and that being a local champion in a competitive situation involving more than one hundred higher institutions is no mean achievement. The third is hopefully to stimulate university-wide 'conversations' about subtler aspects of our mission by raising questions but giving only tantalizingly incomplete answers and by describing possible future paths. I am not asking for debates. I am rather asking for conversations. Rhetoricians and polemicists can win debates even while they fail to win the truth.
- ItemOpen AccessRemarks of Professor Rahamon A. Bello at his investiture ceremony as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Nigeria(Unilag Press & Bookshop, 2013-02) Bello, R.A.Full texts attached
- ItemOpen AccessRemarks of Professor Rahamon A. Bello FAEng at his Investiture Ceremony as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Nigeria(2013-02-05) Bello, R.AFull paper attached.
- ItemOpen AccessNigerian Higher Education: Agenda for Reform(2013-02-05) Jibril, M.The occasion of the celebration of half a century since the establishment of the first Federal University in Nigeria, the University of First Choice and the University of Laureates, the University of Lagos, is an appropriate forum in which to evaluate the .current state of affairs of the Nigerian higher education landscape and reflect on how it may be over-hauled to meet the challenges of the present and the future, hence the title of this lecture. It is an indication of the high quality of teaching and learning in the University of Lagos that ithas produced, from the ranks of its lecturers and former students, more laureates in both Science and Literature in the Nigeria LNG Prize than any other University. Nigerian higher education includes all post-secondary education leading to a Diploma or degree. The higher education institutions include all universities, polytechnics, monotechnics, colleges of education and even professional health training institutions. It will be argued in this lecture that urgent policy reforms are required to reposition Nigeria for the challenges of the twenty-first century knowledge economy. The 2006 population census revealed that only about 8.7% of the population aged 6 above had received higher education by 2006. By comparison, 17.78% had received secondary education. Sadly, up to 37.63 had received no education at all. Over 2.5 million students are enrolled in over 500 such institutions and prograrnrnes in Nigerian higher education. In 2012, there were 106 colleges of education, 74 polytechnics, and 125 universities, with a total estimated enrolment of 2.5 million students. In addition, there were 113 mono technics (i.e. technical colleges specializing in one area of study such as agriculture or health technology) and about 100 schools of nursing and midwifery and other professional training institutions, with an estimated enrolment of over 120,000 students. Given Nigeria'S estimated population of 158.423 million in 2010, the total estimated enrolment in higher education of2,500,000 represents GOLDEN JUBILEE CONVOCATION LECTURE UNILAG 1 a gross enrolment ratio of only 11.29% f~r ~8-t? 25-year-olds (whose population was estimated to be 22.137 million m 2.010). In the ease of universities, although some 40% of them are pnvately owned, the share of enrolment of the private universities is less than 10% of the total. In terms of graduate education, less than 10% of all Nigerian stu?ents are engaged in postgraduate study, and.most oft?ese tend to be m the humanities and especially the SOCIalSCIences,WIthvery ~e:, gra~ua~e students enrolled in the sciences, engineering, or medicine (Jibril, 2003). Indeed, in some universities more than 50% of the graduate students are enrolled in business administration and related courses, responding to the needs of the labour market. Overall, :,hile Ni~eria's higher education sector is among the largest on the Afncan contme~t, reforms are urgently needed-as thi~ lecture ~dl demonstrate-particularly in terms of curnculum, funding, governance, and access.
- ItemOpen AccessWelcome Remarks of the Vice-Chancellor Professor Rahamon A.Bello FAEng at the Special Black History Month Lecture for Youth by US Ambassador Walter Carrington(2013-02-14) Bello, R.AFull paper attached.
- ItemOpen AccessWelcome Address of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Rahamon A. Bello, FAEng at the 2013 First Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) Winners’ Lecture(2013-05-08) Bello, R.AFull paper attached.
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