Hours after saying it has removed Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as the vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos, the school’s governing council said it has appointed Theophilus Soyombo in acting capacity.over allegations of infractions and gross misconduct., saying his “purported removal” was a “mischievous disinformation” as “the extant provisions of the law were not complied with” by the council..
But checks by this newspaper on the said section talks about how the deputy vice-chancellor can be removed, not the vice-chancellor.stands. It then announcedTheophilus Soyombo as the interim head of the university.
Now a professor of sociology, he teaches the course at the University of Lagos sociology department, where he specialises in, among other areas, the sociology of deviant behaviour in youths. The union’s chairman, Dele Ashiru, insisted Mr Ogundipe remained the university’s recognised head, accusing Mr Babalakin of having vested interest.