The Federal Ministry of Education has confirmed the appointment of Chief John Momoh, Chairman of Channels Television as the acting Chairman of Board of Council of the University of Lagos.

Director of Press and Information in the ministry, Bem Goong, who made the confirmation today while replying to the enquiry, said that Momoh has been named the acting Chairman of the school as he said, “It is confirmed, John Momoh is now Acting Council Chair.”

 The acting chairman, who is the President of the UNILAG Alumni Association, has been a member of the council representing the association and he is taking over from Dr. Wale Babalakin whom the federal government had asked to recuse himself along with the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, following the setting up of Special Visitation Panel to look into the crisis rocking the ivory tower.

In a letter addressed to the leading broadcaster dating August 21, 2020, and signed by the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, Mr Momoh was directed to organize an emergency meeting of the council to “consider and if found suitable, approve the senate nomination of the acting Vice-Chancellor for University of Lagos, in line with the enabling Act.”

The letter which is referenced; FME/PS/606/C.I/III/129, is titled; “Emergency Meeting of the Governing Council of the University of Lagos,” stated that Mr Momoh is to preside at the meeting in the absence of the substantive pro-chancellor/chairman of council who had recused himself in line with the visitor’s directive. It partly read,

“You are to also submit a report on the decision of the council to the visitor through the honourable minister of education immediately thereafter.”

Meanwhile, an emergency governing council meeting will hold on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday’s planned inauguration of the visitation panel to the university earlier set up by the visitor, President Muhammadu Buhari.