After the sack of the incumbent vice chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), the Governing Council on Thursday August 13, appointed Prof. Theophilus Omololu Soyombo as the Acting Vice Chancellor of the institution.

This was contained in a statement by the Registrar/ Secretary to the Council, Oladejo Azeez, stating that the Council made the appointment at a meeting held in the early hours of Thursday in Abuja.

The statement urged the public to disregard the claim by Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe that he remains the substantive Vice Chancellor of UNILAG.

The institution governing Council, headed by Dr Wale Babalakin, SAN, had on Wednesday removed Ogundipe as the VC of the school.

The development was as a result of the face-off between Babalakin and Ogundipe which led to the school’s chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, declaring Babalakin an unwanted visitor to the university.

This prevented the Council from sitting on campus and had to shift its sitting to Abuja where a meeting was convened and Ogundipo removed as the school's VC.