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In case you missed it, Professor Folasade Ogunsola on Monday emerged the Acting Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Ogunsola won at a Senate election on Monday in a contest against Ben Oghojafor, making her the first female to occupy the VC seat of the institution that was established in 1962.
Ogunsola had served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the institution in nearly four years before the development along with Oghojafor.
She won the election by 135 votes against Ogbojafor, who scored 31 votes. One vote was, however, void in the election.
TNG reports Ogunsola will replace Theophilus Soyombo, a professor of Sociology who was also in an acting capacity for barely ten days before his removal over the weekend.
Ogunsola, a Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the College of Medicine, UNILAG, has been involved in Infection Control for 20 years and contributed significantly to raising awareness of infection control in Nigeria.
She was a founding member of the Nigerian Society for Infection Control (Formerly Nigerian Infection Control Association, NICA) in 1998 and has assisted in setting up infection control programs in institutions in the country.
She was the Chair of the Infection Control Committee of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital till 2012 and the team lead for Infection Prevention and Control during the 2014 Ebola disease outbreak in Nigeria.
She has worked as a consultant in IPC with the World Health Organisation since 2009 and is interested in the community applications of Infection Control principles in under-resourced communities.
She recently with her team wrote a curriculum for a 6-month diploma in Infection Control.
She is a member of the Global Infection Prevention and Control Network, board member of the Nigerian Society of Infection Control and Chair of the Infection Control African Network.