Lagos State University of Education Management Hosts Oto‑Awori Students’ Union Delegation

On Friday, 28 November 2025, the Lagos State University of Education (LASUED) received representatives of the Oto‑Awori Students’ Union (OASU) on a courtesy visit at the Multimedia Complex Room of the Vice‑Chancellor’s Office.

Vice‑Chancellor Professor Bidemi Bilkis Lafiaji‑Okuneye — represented by Deputy Vice‑Chancellor (Academics) Professor Daodu Morufu Adedayo — welcomed the delegation, noting Oto‑Awori’s reputation as a hospitable community that had welcomed him during his earlier days as a student at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), the university’s legacy college in the early 1990s. He commended the traditional ruler of Oto‑Awori, HRM Oba (Elder) Aina Josiah Ilemobade Olanrewaju Kuyamiku I, the Oloto of Oto‑Awori Kingdom, for his continued support — particularly an infrastructural donation to the Oto/Ijanikin Main Campus — and acknowledged the monarch’s integral role in the institution’s development.

Professor Adedayo advised OASU executives to leverage opportunities from governmental and non‑governmental organisations — beginning with the Local Council Development Area — to enhance support for indigenous students. He encouraged the union to mobilise youths in the community to embrace Western education, cultivate strong academic values and establish campus, national and international chapters of OASU — starting with LASUED — to broaden its developmental reach. He stressed the importance of sustained collaboration and urged OASU to act as an effective intermediary between the host community and the university when issues arise.

Coordinator of the Oto‑Awori Students’ Union, Comrade Ojoare Adedotun A., thanked the university for the warm reception and praised the Vice‑Chancellor’s administration for its community‑engagement and infrastructure initiatives. He requested LASUED’s partnership in indigenous students’ empowerment, skills‑acquisition programmes, preferential consideration for host‑community students during admissions and collaborative intermediation between the university and the Oto‑Awori community.

The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks delivered by Administrative Officer of the Vice‑Chancellor’s Office, Mr. Rasheed J.