LASUSTECH Watch

Favour C. Ogbonnaya, Shakiru Samuel Students of the Nigeria Union of Engineering Students Association (NUESA), Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) Chapter, have carried out a community service exercise aimed at giving back to the College of Engineering and promoting practical engineering solutions within the institution. The exercise, organised as part of the NUESA Student Week programme, involved electrical maintenance works, replacement of faulty sockets and bulbs, repairs of lamp holders, and washing of lecturers’ vehicles within the college environment. Speaking during the exercise, the Head of Department, Engr. Adigun Muritala, described community service as one of the three major responsibilities of students in the university system alongside teaching and research. According to him, community service is as important as classroom learning and research activities, stressing that it exposes students to practical experiences beyond the classroom. “Community ...

"Dear Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, this is another opportunity for you to lead with compassion. The new pact is meant to be reviewed in three years; more than three months have passed, and the ministry of tertiary education has not done anything despite the submission of the financial implications by the three chapters of ASUU in Lagos State-owned universities." At exactly 7:10 am on the 103rd day of 2026, Dr Lola Kosoko, a 46-year-old soil scientist with 18 years at a Lagos State public university and over 38 peer-reviewed publications, arrived at the Oshodi BRT terminal. The absence of BRT buses was less daunting than the crowd, which kept swelling. Waiting endlessly for buses that never arrived wasn’t an option if she was to make her 8:00 am lecture. Meanwhile, Uber or inDrive was simply out of reach. So, she hopped into a danfo- Lagos’s yellow-painted, black-striped ‘moving menace’. Around 7:42 am, just after crossing the Mile 12 overhead bridge, the bus was s...