Things to know about UNILAG first female VC

Prof Folasade Ogunsola on Friday emerged the first female vice chancellor of the University Of Lagos (UNILAG).

She was the first female Acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, and the pioneer and only female Provost of the university’s College of Medicine.

She was born in 1958 and raised at the University of Ibadan where her father, the late Prof Akin Mabogunje was a lecturer. She obtained her first degree in Medicine and Surgery at Obafemi Awolowo University, the then University of Ife between 1974 and I982.

She bagged her Master’s degree from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and proceeded to the University of Wales between 1992 and 1997 for her PhD in Medical Microbiology

She was a founding member of the Nigerian Society for Infection Control in 1998 and member of the Global Infection Prevention and Control Network. She is the principal investigator at AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria (APIN) at University of Lagos.