PROFILE OF SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES, AND LIKELY VC FOR LASU.

The trio of Professor Lanre Fagbohun, Professor Hamidu Sanni, and Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji Bello were the three successful candidates in order of performance respectively after the screening was done.

Their profiles are given below.

1. Professor Lanre Fagbohun

Professor Olanrewaju Fagbohun, LL.B (Hons), LL.M, Ph.D, B.L

Prof. Lanre Fagbohun is the Director of Studies of International Law Association (ILA), Nigeria. In this capacity, he provides overall guidance and expert supervision to all scholarly reports and publications of the Branch.

Prof. Fagbohun is currently the Chike Idigbe Distinguished  Research Professor at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lagos. Prior to joining the Institute he taught Environmental Law and Policy and International Environmental Law at the Undergraduate and Post-graduate levels in the Faculty of Law of the Lagos State University.  His practice, research and writing has in the last 20 years focused on environmental litigation, indigenous rights and the law of pollution control and environmental restoration. 

Professor Fagbohun was at different times

• A member of Senate of the Lagos State University; 
• Head of Department of Business Law and later Department of Private and Property law; 
• Co-ordinator, Law Centre, Lagos State University;
•  Co-ordinator the Department of Environmental Law and Allied Disciplines of the Centre for Environment and Science Education of the Lagos State University; 
• Project Facilitator and Resource Person to the British Council, Committee on Ecology and Environment of the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, United Nations Development Programme, the National Judicial Council; 
• Environmental Rights Action & Friends of the Environment, Nigeria. 
• For several years he was the Editor-in-Chief of the LASU Law Journal; 
• Member, Journal of Nigerian Labour Law; and 
• Chairman, Editorial Board of the Petroleum, National Resources and Environmental Law Journal.  
• He is a member of the National Work-Group for the Streamlining of Environmental laws in Nigeria and Development of Environmental Law and Policy Curriculum for Nigerian Universities; 
• Member, LASEPA Technical Advisory Committee on Environmental Management and Control (Downstream Oil and Gas Sector); 
• Member, Expert Group for the development of Climate Change Policy and Legislation for the Federal Republic of Nigeria; and 
•  Director, Environmental Law Research Institute.  
• He is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminars.

Professor Fagbohun has published extensively in local and international journals in the area of environmental law, and co-edited several books among which is a 25 chapter book on “Environmental Law Policy”, and another 31 chapter book on “Development and Reforms; Nigeria’s Commercial Law”.  His latest work is an over 630-page book titled, “The Law of Oil Pollution and Environmental Restoration: A Comparative Review”

2. Professor Hamidu Sanni

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3. Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji Bello

Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello

Her highest position held in LASU was the acting Vice Chancellor of LASU between January 2011 and 31st October, 2011.

Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello has held several professional and administrative positions both at UNILAG and LASU. She was the

• Chairman, Biomedical Communications Management Committee, 2000-2003 
• Member, Medical Education Committee between 2001 and 2005. 
• An elected member of the Academic Board of the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos (CMUL) from 1999 to 2004. 
• Member, Medilag Consult of the College of Medicine, Unilag from June, 2001 to September 2007 
• Member, University of Lagos Women Society Nursery School Board, December 2000 to March 2005. 
• First female Deputy Vice Chancellor of LASU, she 
• First substantive Head of the Department of Physiology, LASUCOM.

Prof. Olatunji-Bello has obtained many academic fellowships and awards, some of them are:

• Travel Award by The Physiological Society to attend the Joint International Meeting of The Physiological Society and Federation of European Physiological Societies, University of Bristol, 20th to 23rd July 2005.
• Travel Award by SIDA (Swedish International Development Authority) to attend Pan-African Conference on Information Technology for the Advancement of Nutrition in Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, 21st to 25th July 2002.
• Part-sponsorship by Pfizer Specialties Ltd to attend Pan-African Conference on Information Technology for the Advancement of Nutrition in Africa in Nairobi Kenya, 21st July to 25th July 2002.
• Fellowship awarded by SIDA (Swedish International Development Authority) to participate in the Global Nutrition 2000 (Advanced  International Training Programme, Uppsala, Sweden.) at the Department of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Uppsala, Sweden, from February 28 to March 31,2000
• Follow-up in Kenya, October, 21st – 30th, 2000 for the award of a Certificate in Nutrition and Information Technology.
• Fellowship awarded by the Nigerian Government for staff enhancement under the World Bank Federal University Credit Facility in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, U. S. A. from April 12th to October 12th 1994.
• Awarded Second Best Teacher in the Physiology Department 1999/2000 session by the School of Basic Medical Sciences as adjudged by the 200 level students.
• Awarded a Research Grant with Prof. O. A. Sofola by the University of Lagos, 1993

She is a member of many professional bodies such as,

• Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, USA
• American Physiological Society
• New York Academy of Sciences
• The Physiological Society, UK
• She wass a two term Vice President, Physiological Society of Nigeria, and a former member, Lagos University Medical Society and
• member, Information Technology in the Advancement of Nutrition in Africa Group (ITANA GROUP)

Prof. Yemi Olatunji-Bello is happily married to Tunji Bello, a journalist and lawyer, and a two term Commissioner for the Environment, now secretary to Lagos State government, whom she met at the University of Ibadan in their undergraduate days. They are blessed with 3 children.

Academic positions:

September 1986 – August 1988: Part time Demonstrator in Physiology

1st September 1988 - 31st September 1991: Assistant Lecturer in Physiology

1st October 1991 - 31st September 1996: Lecturer II in Physiology

1st October 1996 – 31st September 1999: Lecturer I in Physiology

1st October, 1999 – 31st September, 2005: Senior Lecturer in Physiology

1st October 2005 – 1st October 2007: Associate Professor of Physiology

2nd October 2007 - date:Professor of Physiology, LASU.

Research interests:

Effects of Medicinal plants on physiologic functions, mainly endocrine.

Aging.