UNILAG DVC Urges Clinical Sciences Faculty to Reconnect Science with African Realities
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Management Services), University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Muyiwa Falaiye, has stressed the need for academic leadership to go beyond routine administration to embrace courage, vision and a commitment to solving problems that directly affect the communities universities serve. Professor Falaiye made the call on Saturday, August 29, 2026, while delivering the keynote address at the Second Faculty Retreat of the Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos (CMUL), held […]
From 1962 to The Present: Prof. Okanlawon Chronicles UNILAG’s Journey in Three-Volume Work
The University of Lagos, Nigeria has a long memory. It is a memory built over decades by its scholars, students, administrators, and alumni; by the achievements that have made the institution proud, and by the difficult moments that have tested its resilience. For Professor Abayomi Okanlawon, that memory deserves to be preserved. That conviction has produced Discovering the University of Lagos: One Day at a Time, a three-volume chronicle of the University’s journey from its […]
When Inclusion Became Innovation: Team Omega Triumphs at AFRETEC-UNILAG Challenge 3.0
Inclusion was not merely a theme at the 2026 AFRETEC-UNILAG Inclusive Education Innovation Challenge Grand Finale. It was brought to life. Perhaps nowhere was this more powerfully demonstrated than in the story of Team Omega of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), which emerged as the overall winner of the competition with 71 points after a four-month intensive innovation journey. At the heart of the winning team was a woman living with disability, Miss Oluwakemi Aladesanmi, […]
UNILAG Sends Off Pioneer Greenstem Scholar, Celebrates African Research collaboration
The University of Lagos (UNILAG), through its Office of Global Engagement and Strategic Partnerships (OGESP), on Monday, August 24, 2026, hosted a send-off ceremony to mark the completion of the six-month GreenSTEM Intra-Africa Horizontal Mobility Programme by Mr. Senakpon Tcheton of the Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Held at the OGESP Board Room, the ceremony brought together GreenSTEM scholars, supervisors, and staff, alongside participants who joined virtually from Nigeria and abroad. […]
Professor Obidi Delivers 20th Inaugural Lecture, September 2
The 20th Inaugural Lecture of the 2025/2026 Academic Session of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) will hold on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 4:00p.m. (Guests are to be seated by 3:45p.m.) at the J. F. Ade. Ajayi (Main) Auditorium, UNILAG. The lecture entitled: “From Micro to Nano: The Colourful Voyage of an Industrial Microbiologist,” will be delivered by Professor Olayide Folashade Obidi of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, under the Chairmanship of […]
