Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello has been appointed the new Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University.
The wife of Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Tunji Bello, becomes the ninth Vice Chancellor of LASU after a rigorous exercise laced with intrigues and suspense.
The Professor of Medicine had served as Acting Vice Chancellor of the institution before her elevation.
She was born on April 23, 1964 in Lagos.
She had her primary education at Anglican Girls Primary School, Surulere, from 1970 to 1974 and her secondary education at Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School, Surulere, between 1974 and 1979.
Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello then proceeded to Methodist Girls High School, Yaba, and Lagos State College of Science and Technology, Ikosi Campus where she did her “A” level in 1982.
For her university education, she attended the University of Ibadan from 1982 to 1985 where she bagged a BSc (Hons) in Physiology.
In 1987, at the University of Lagos, she was awarded MSc (Physiology). In 1998, she was awarded a PhD in Physiology, also at University of Lagos after attending a six-month research training in the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the US in 1994.
She rose through the ranks from Assistant Lecturer (1988-1991), Lecturer II between 1991 and 1996, Lecturer I from 1996 to 1999, Senior Lecturer (1999 – 2005), Associate Professor between 2005 and October 1st 2007, all in the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Idiaraba.
She assumed duty as the First Professor of Physiology in Lagos State University College of Medicine on the 2nd of October, 2007. In the following year, she was elected the Deputy Vice Chancellor for a period of years in the first instance.
On January 27, she was re-elected, for a second term as Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
Professor Yemi Olatunji-Bello was the acting Vice Chancellor of LASU between January 2011 and October 31, 2011.
Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello has held several professional and administrative positions both at UNILAG and LASU.
She was the Chairman, Biomedical Communications Management Committee, 2000-2003 and Member, Medical Education Committee between 2001 and 2005. She was an elected member of the Academic Board of the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos (CMUL) from 1999 to 2004.
Member, Medilag Consult of the College of Medicine, Unilag from June, 2001 to September 2007, and Member, University of Lagos Women Society Nursery School Board, December 2000 to March 2005. Until her election as the First female Deputy Vice Chancellor of LASU, she was the First substantive Head of the Department of Physiology, LASUCOM.
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