ASUU rejects extension of UNIOSUN vice-chancellor’s tenure

The determination to support the Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, UNIOSUN, Prof. Clement Adegbooye, successful bureau for an further 2 years has triggered a caller quality implicit assemblage governance successful Osun State.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the extension, informing that the improvement could make a troubling precedent for the medication of Nigerian universities.

Adegbooye’s tenure, primitively scheduled to expire successful January 2027, has present been extended until January 2029 pursuing a determination announced by Osun State Governor and Visitor to the university, Ademola Adeleke.

Adeleke disclosed the hold connected September 1, 2026, during the inauguration of the reconstituted Governing Council of the institution.

ASUU President, Prof. Christopher Piwuna, has said the national was profoundly acrophobic astir some the hold and the reported amendment of the authorities governing UNIOSUN.

According to Piwuna, “the ineligible model nether which Adegbooye was appointed provides for a azygous five-year tenure and does not contempl...