The
students of University of Lagos (UNILAG), in continuation of their
protest over the renaming of their institution after Late M.K.O Abiola,
disrupted traffic on the 3rd Mainland bridge, Lagos, this morning.
A pregnant woman and many workers on their way to work in Lagos
Island were seen stranded on the bridge with the protesting students
blocking some sections of the road with seized BRT buses.
The students marched from their main campus at Akoka, Yaba through
Herbert Macaulay Street to the Adekunle link on the bridge, demanding
the reversion to the original name of the university.
The students are also occupying areas in Alagomeji, Yaba, Sabo and
the University’s main gate. Few lecturers and Alumni of the school
joined the students in the protest.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, who led a team of
police officers to the scene of the protest, asked the students to
return to their campuses and stay calm until the government finds a
solution to the problem.
President Goodluck Jonathan in his 50-minute Democracy Day address to
Nigerians on Tuesday had changed the name of the institution to Moshood
Abiola University, Lagos.
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