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Former UNILAG VC Oye Ibidapo-Obe dies of COVID-19 at 71

03 January 2021 at 21:58
Ibidapo-Obe was the Vice Chancellor of UNILAG from 2000 to 2007.
Prof Oye Ibidapo-Obe was a distinguished Professor of Systems Engineering and a former Vice-Chancellor (2000 – 2007) of the University of Lagos (The nation).
Prof Oye Ibidapo-Obe was a distinguished Professor of Systems Engineering and a former Vice-Chancellor (2000 – 2007) of the University of Lagos (The nation).

Prof Oye Ibidapo-Obe, the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), has died at the age of 71.

According to Punch, Prof Ibidapo-Obe died of COVID-19 in Lagos on Sunday, January 3, 2020.

While confirming the ex VC's death, ASUU-UNILAG chairman, Dr Dele Ashiru, described the deceased as a quintessential academic that would "greatly be missed in the education sector".

“Yes, he is dead. We got the sad news this evening. He is a distinguished scholar, a seasoned university administrator whose death remains a very big loss to the Nigerian university system and indeed the Nigerian society,” Ashiru told Punch.

Ibidapo-Obe was a professor of Systems Engineering and a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos from 2000 to 2007.

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