The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Lagos
State University (LASU) chapter, has urged that professors
in the university be allowed to retire at the age of 70 instead of the current age of 65 that operates in the school.
Speaking during a Stakeholders’ Forum to consider A Bill For A Law To Amend The LASU Law, 2004 and other Connected Purposes’ organised by the Lagos State House of Assembly, the Chairman of ASUU-LASU chapter, Dr. Adekunle Idris, said that most of the professors leave the university for private universities and others in the country to seek greener pasture and work till age 70 after retiring in LASU at age 65.
According to him, some of the professors that are retiring
from the university use their students to conduct
researches and they end up short-changing the university.
Dr. Idris said that ASUU-LASU had been advocating single-
year tenure of five years for the Vice Chancellor of the
university and other principal officers of the institution for
some time now.
He said further that a holistic amendment of LASU law
should be done once and for all, adding that the autonomy
law of universities that operate in Nigeria should be
adopted in LASU.
“The federal law states that a joint committee of the council and senate shall choose the Vice Chancellor from three shortlisted candidates and submit the name to the
Governor for approval.
“The Governing Council would appoint the Vice Chancellor
and it would be approved by the Visitor, the Governor of
the state. The VC shall hold office for a single term of five
years. The VC may be removed from office by the Governing Council over gross misconduct or as a result of inability to discharge his duties over infirmity of the body or mind.
“The committee shall conduct investigations into allegations made against the VC and report to the Governing Council. There shall be no sole administrator in the university,” he said.
He added that principal officers of the University such as
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Bursar and the Librarian
should also serve a single year tenure of five years and that those who are serving in the University now should be part of this proposition.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Education, Lanre Ogunyemi said in his speech at the event that the
amendment is aimed at enhancing the quality of education
being discharged in the University.
He stated that it will also assist in putting an end to the
protracted leadership crisis that has rocked the state-
owned tertiary institution and factors affecting
accreditation and de-accreditation of courses in the
institution would be considered.
“The single-term tenure considered in Schedule 1 of the
amendment is imperative because the institution since its
establishment has been bedeviled with internal crisis, which were targeted at sitting Vice-Chancellors, who desire to seek a second term in office,” he said.

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