Two technology giants, Cisco and Interswitch, have collaboratively donated enterprise-grade technology devices to the University of Lagos (UNILAG). The donated devices include: 3 Switches, 2 Servers, 1 Cisco Firewall device, and 1 F5 device.
Representatives of the two companies led by the Sales Manager at Interswitch, Mr. Oluwafemi Atere, made the donation to the University on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. They were received by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Folasade Ogunsola, OON, FAS and some members of the University’s management team .
Mr. Atere explained that the donation was a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative aimed at reviving the CISCO Academy, initially established in 2008.
According to him, “the objective of donating the equipment is to foster hands-on training for students and lecturers at the Academy, thereby creating a pipeline of skilled and capable hands who can take up the many opportunities that abound in the tech space.”
The Vice-Chancellor, in response, expressed gratitude to the donor companies. She recounted the numerous efforts being made by the University to expose students to Innovation and Technology, irrespective of discipline, and to get them prepared for real-world problem solving.
Her words, “You have come at right time. With some measure of autonomy that the CCMAS gives us to determine our curriculum, here at the University of Lagos, we are determined to have robust partnerships with industry and, by so doing, prepare our students for the real world. We also invite problem-ideas from the industry so that our faculty and students can begin to chew on it, thereby doing research that matters.”
Some members of the university management, including Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics and Research), Professor Bola Oboh; Registrar, Mrs. Abosede Wickliffe, and Director of the Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe Centre for Information Technology and System (ABS-CITS), Professor Hakeem Amuda, were present at the meeting.
