Students of the University of Lagos have ,Tuesday morning, embarked on a protest against the renaming of the school by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Jonathan had in a nationwide broadcast renamed the University of Lagos as Moshood Abiola University in honour of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola.
Students marched out of their hostels and gathered at the Yabatech junction from where they moved round the school chanting protests songs denouncing the name change of the school.
Vanguard gathered that the students were carrying placcards with inscriptions: Reverse or Resign, UNILAG cant be called MAU! etc.
The students blocked all access roads to the school causing heavy traffic on the University of Lagos Road as well as St. Finbarrs' College Road.
Details later.
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The idea of changing the school name is very bad and this will damage the school image.We are begging Mr.president to reverse the name.
Is dis wat is priority to d failin governent of nigeria? Changing d name of a prestigiuos school? Does changin d name improv d standered of education in d school let alone the whole nation? Its a shame dat some one lik d presdent a man of academic shld tink lik d so-called politicians we hav. such shld not b a matter dat shld bother d federal government wen there ar mor important and pressin issues piled up to b setted. Frm my point of view changin unilag to sometin else wld cause the school to loos face in the international world... And wil d government stop politisizin d universities of diz country. U wont do wat u shld do but u go around messin up tins dat are stil bein managed. If d presidency wants to honour abiola den dey shld establish anoda school in abuja and name it to him beside there ar many young nigerians stil seekin admision and dats a problem but u go around wastin our time a d resources on irelivant tins...bokoharam run around threatening d lif and freedom of hard workin and innocent nigerians dats a pressing issue solv dat and leav unilag as unilag pls!!!!!
I want us to be very careful of damaging UNILAG just because of a possible clash perhaps between the President and an Alumnus or one of the heads of UNILAG...For God sake,MKO is already immortalised in a Polytechnic abd a stadium in Abeokuta and possibly several odas...We all are sure that this is a sick move,please GEJ,reverse dis,God bless Mr President. This is not the way we shhould make others unhappy because we r not.
This is yet another slice of thank you for voting me from Goodlack; stay tuned others are on their way!
Nigerians seem to have a nack for morbid if not a cruel sense of humour.The renaming of UNILAG in honour of MKO Abiola is like naming our International Airport at Ikeja,Lagos after the monster and psychopathic mass murderer,Alhaji Murtala Mohammed.That Ikeja Airport is named after a man who orderd and took part in the extermination of Igbo males from the age of ten and up is morally questionable.The Igbos are the noblest among their kind in Nigeria and yet that. Renaming UNILAG after MKO raises some ethical questions Here is a man who used his Islamic faith to curry favour from the monster who loved to hate us Igbos with a passion. He was awarded a contract and paid $10bn cash to modernise our telephone seyetem.MKO Abiola pocketed the huge sum of money and became very rich playing his role of a rogue philantropist.He used his Newspaper, Concord to lampoon Christians and Christianity.He was the brain behind IBB declaring us a muslim country. The Government should be recovering our misappropriated money from Abiola's family living in opulence with our money not honouring him.Abiola was a victim of his evil Islamic faith not a political marthyr.What a country!
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