LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 21-year-old undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Chidinma Ojukwu, has narrated how she stabbed the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, to death in the Lekki area of Lagos State. She spoke at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja on Thursday after she was paraded as a…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A novel, Ifewumi, The Travails of Inulayewa, written by the scion of foremost Yoruba novelist, D.O. Fagunwa, was launched at the University of Lagos, June 8. Written by Dipo Fagunwa, son of the legendary Yoruba novelist, Ifewumi is a narrative follow-up of Aditu Olodumare, the 1961 novel written in Yoruba language by…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Patients about to undergo elective surgery are a high risk group for COVID-19 infection, Prof. Adesoji Ademuyiwa of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, has said. Prof. Ademuyiwa is the Nigeria lead in a study conducted by 15,000 surgeons and anaesthetists from across 116 countries. The study was commissioned by the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-University of Lagos has opened its library service to its students using what it calls e-Learning Environment. This was disclosed by the institution’s Acting Director, CITS, Dr (Mrs) Florence Oladeji. Using the link: https://unilag.edu.ng/?p=7857, the institution said the platform was dedicated to helping students and faculty in the e-learning environment. The Director…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A student of the University of Lagos, John Akinwale, has landed in the hospital after a power-drunk policeman tortured him to a coma in the Mosafejo, Oshodi area of Lagos State. SaharaReporters learnt that Akinwale was arrested on Monday around 2 pm, after he bought fuel at a filling station, by police…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspended Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has been reinstated. This was contained in a statement from the Ministry of Education’s Director Press and Public Relations, Ben-Bem Goong, on Wednesday. The statement was titled, ‘Re: Report of special visitation panel to UNILAG’. It read in part, “President Muhammadu…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Ministry of Education has confirmed that Chief John Momoh, Chairman of Channels Television, has been named as the acting Chairman of the Governing Council, University of Lagos, UNILAG. Mr Momoh will take over from Dr. Wale Babalakin who had been asked to recuse himself along with the University’s embattled Vice-Chancellor,…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has directed the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Wale Babalakin, to recuse himself from official duties relating to the institution. Spokesman of the Ministry of Education, Ben Goong, who broke the news in a statement yesterday, said Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe was also directed…