The bill transmitting the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), in Ikorodu, Isolo and Surulere campuses to the University of Science and Technology as well as Adeniran Ogunsanya Colleges of Education (AOCED), Ijanikin and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Epe to Lagos State University of Education (LASUED), has been signed into law.
The signing ceremony took place at the Lagos House, Marina, on Wednesday by the state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and witnessed by Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, Special Adviser to the Governor on Education; Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice; members of the Governing Council and management staff of the tertiary institutions, among others.
Speaking after signing the bills, Governor Sanwo-Olu, said Lagos and its indigenes are now blessed with two additional universities to the existing Lagos State University (LASU), established in 1982 by the first Executive Governor of Lagos State, the late Alhaji Lateef Jakande.
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“We are doing this very quickly because we need to take this law to the National Universities Commission (NUC), that will do their due diligence and we are believing they will give us a timely approval when all of us will go and receive the certificates for the establishment of the two universities,” he said.
“We believe that the transmission will be smooth. We believe that the process would be without any hindrance. We believe that we will do a good job at ensuring that what is best is the only thing that we do for Lagos. I feel so delighted and proud of all of us creating history today and I believe that indeed, generations coming after us will remember this very bold, audacious decision that we have taken.
“The two institutions that have now been transmitted into universities are institutions that have produced professionals, students, lecturers among other notable men and women in our society. I feel what we have done is a proper thing for the existing staff, both academic and non-academic and more importantly for the students today and the future students that would be coming in to be able to recreate their future and be in a position that we are turning out the leaders of tomorrow.”
The two new institutions according to Wahab will solve issues relating to admission for Lagos State citizens.
He commended Governor Sanwo-Olu for putting his full weight behind the establishment of the new universities and appreciated the Lagos State House of Assembly led by Rt. Honourable Mudashiru Obasa for believing in the process.
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