HOW IGBO MAN BECAME THE FIRST VICE-CHANCELLOR OF UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS
The name of the University of Lagos First Vice-Chancellor is Eni Njoku .
Mr. Eni Njoku was born on the 6th day of November 1917 in Ebem, Ohafia, Abia State.
He was educated at Ebem Primary School and attended the Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar from 1933 to 1936. He attended the Yaba Higher School (now Yaba College of Technology) Lagos from 1937 to 1939 to acclaim a tertiary education certificate.
He studied botany at the University of Manchester in England where He graduated with a first class honors degree in 1947 and obtained his M.A. degree the following year.
In 1954, he obtained his doctorate from the University of London.
When he returned to Nigeria, Eni Njoku took up a teaching appointment at the University of Ibadan as a lecturer. Later, he became a senior lecturer and then professor. He was head of the department of botany, and Dean of the faculty of science.
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He became chairman of Electricity Corporation of Nigeria in 1956.
In 1962, he became the FIRST VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS.
IN 1965, he was reappointed but his re-appointment culminated into a major crisis so he resigned and became a visiting professor at Michigan State University, United States.
In 1966, Njoku was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he remained until the outbreak of the civil war in 1967.
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