Outgoing Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, has unveiled two books published by Prof Yunus Dauda to mark her exit from the school.
She unveiled the books during the send-off organised by Momentus Men and Women of the Learning Association in the University (MOWLAS and MOMLAS), at the LASU campus, Ojo.
The books are titled: ‘University Governance and Academic Staff Militancy and Global Poverty and Human Development’.
Dauda is a professor of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management.
He is the director, Lagos State University School of Basic and Advanced Studies (LASUSBAS), Badagry.
The former VC called on union leaders in higher institutions to get the books for their usage.
She said the books noted that the repeated strikes and crises affecting universities could not be explained simply as the result of union militancy.
Olatunji-Bello urged students and union leaders at higher institutions in Lagos to have a copy of the book, to enable them have more knowledge of campus governance.
On her exit from LASU, she advised members of staff of the institution to be men and women of integrity.
She urged them to discipline themselves and be focused.
She enjoined them to believe in themselves, saying they had the potential and would get to the top.
Dauda said public universities had been embroiled in conflict between Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and successive governments.
He said the books would give a deeper understanding of the evolving university management and governance and their impact on university service delivery and academic staff militancy.
Dauda said they were published with a view to promoting a university system that could effectively prepare the future generations of leaders and to promote national development.
On the ex-LASU VC, he said during her tenure, she created an enabling environment that allowed academic, social and cultural activities to thrive and blossom in the last five years.
Prof Waidi Akingbade, a lecturer at the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, LASU, reviewed the books.
He said the author presented ASUU’s activities largely as a legitimate and non-violent response to government neglect, administrative injustice, and the decline in the quality of university education.
‘The author draws from her experience as an ASUU-LASU member, trade unionist and researcher in employment relations,’ he said.
Members of MOWLAS and MOMLAS at higher institutions in Lagos presented awards to the former LASU VC.