Former Vice Chancellor of LASU, Lateef Hussein, dies at 75

Lateef Hussein, a former Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojoo, died at the age of 75 after a brief illness.

Lateef Hussein, a former Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojoo, died at the age of 75 after a brief illness.

Hussein, who was a professor of Physics and worked as a lecturer at the University of Ibadan until his retirement, died on Sunday evening, July 31.

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The announcement of his death was issued through the university’s statement and posted on its official Facebook page.

While reacting to the news on Monday, August 1, Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, the university’s vice-chancellor, was said to have voiced her deep shock at the demise of her former boss.

Mrs Olatunji-Bello worked under Lateef Hussein as a deputy vice-chancellor before being appointed acting vice-chancellor.

The Physics professor served as the 6th substantive vice-chancellor of the university in 2005 to 2011.

After his appointment in 2005 under the former Governor Bola Tinubu’s administration, Hussein finished his first tenure of four years in 2009 and was re-elected for another four-year term in 2009.

But, the ex-vice-chancellor, like his substantive successor, Oladapo Obafunwa, fronted several challenges with the workers’ union on the campus regarding the issues of welfare and allegation of victimisation.

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However, he was chased out of the university in 2011, resulting in an abrupt end to his term midway through the second term.

Among the then deputy VC and now the substantive vice-chancellor, Mrs Olatunji-Bello was elected in an acting capacity.

Obafunwa was then appointed as a substantive replacement in 2011, but he suffered from the same situation with the university workers at the tail end of his administration when he was pelted with sachet water and chased out of the Ojo main campus.

Though Obafunwa desired to come back to the university for a second tenure, a professor of Law, Olanrewaju Fagbohun, was elected in 2016 for a five-year single tenure of office.

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