The Lagos State University (LASU) has been selected as a Centre of Excellence for Innovative and Transformative STEM Education (CITSE) by the World Bank, among other 16 universities across Nigeria.
Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, Vice – Chancellor of the University made the disclosure on Friday at the maiden Long Service Award for Teaching and non-teaching staff who had served the university for 20 years and above.
A total of 543 staff members of the university received the award.
Fagbohun said the Africa Centre of Excellence (ACE) 3 project is aimed at supporting more policy harmonisation initiatives in higher education across the African region.
He said that LASU would get a minimum of 7 Million dollars as a Centre for the project, which is renewable after four years following impressive output and performance.
” I will start my remark on a high note. I am proud to announce to you that LASU is now an African Centre Of Excellence
” We were chosen from about 154 Universities that applied for the centre, and after several rounds of assessment and screening, we were selected as the only state university in the round.
“We are going to be attracting foreign students and foreign faculties, so, we cannot afford to go on strike or allow any crisis.
“It is not about me, it is about all of us, as LASU will become what we all make it to become, ” he said .
Fagbohun urged the staff to collaborate with the university management in strategically managing the institution and sustaining it when the centre of excellence commences.
He lauded the recipients of the long service award and other staff members of the institution for their contribution toward making LASU great .
According to him, the staff members are being celebrated and appreciated for their investment into the LASU project with the hope that they would be motivated to do more.
Prof. Adebayo Ninalowo, Chairman, Governing Council, LASU, said the happenings in LASU within the past three years was different from what it used to be , as happiness was now the order of the day.
Ninalowo said the award was geared toward celebrating hard work and motivating the staff to be more productive.
