Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has splashed huge sum of ₦20 million on each of the two overall best graduating students for both 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 academic sessions of the Lagos State University, Ojo
The recipients who were presented with the cash award in recognition of their excellence performances on Wednesday during the grand-finale of the combined 29th and 30th Convocation Ceremonies, included Ayilara Lawal Olawale of the Project Management Department with
CGPA: 4.96 ( 2024/2025) and Adebanjo Samuel Oluolamide of Aerospace Engineering Department with CGPA: 4.97 (2025/2026 )
Africa's richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, GCON*, joined the ranks of LASU’s honorary doctorate recipients, with the distinguished honour received on his behalf by his daughter, Ms Fatima Dangote alongside two others, Mrs Harriet-Ann Omobola(Bola) Adesola and
Mr Akin A. Kekere-Ekun, OFR who were conferred with the Honorary degree
Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Ibilola Olatunji-Bello who will be leaving office in the next four weeks, says LASU has sustained its rich tradition of academic excellence and witnessed an improved infrastructural growth in the past five years under her leadership
"Five years ago, I inherited a university of strong potential. In about four Weeks from now, I will be leaving a university of proven excellence, the most subscribed in Nigeria, the most digitally advanced among our peers, and a name that now commands respect across Africa's higher education landscape", she stated
The outgoing Vice-Chancellor revealed that her administration was able to secure full accreditation for 31 of the 37 programmes which represented a 96% success rate
The achievement according to her, remains, to date, an unprecedented first-year achievement for any sitting Vice-Chancellor in LASU.
"All our professional programmes achieved full accreditation. By 2023, we had extended that success further, securing full accreditation for 43 of 44 courses presented and in 2026 17 new programmes received full accreditation by the National Universities Commission through resource assessment"
"In October 2025, we had the honour of inaugurating under your leadership, the Babajide Sanwo-Olu Library Complex now the largest and most digitalised university library building anywhere in West Africa, providing an infrastructure that supports our drive for academic excellence".
"Also worthy of mention is our establishment of four new faculties and two schools housing more than 30 new in-demand courses, to provide more educational opportunities for the teeming population of Lagosians, marking the boldest expansion of academic offerings by a single administration in LASU's recent history"
"We instituted a ₦5 million internal research grant to reward scholarly inquiry. Our researchers went on to win ₦29 million in Lagos State Research and Innovation Council grants, and we secured full membership of the prestigious Association of Commonwealth Universities, amidst several a cumulative of several millions won in grants by our researchers", she revealed
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