Nigeria: Rage Over UNILAG Renaming

8 June 2012
editorial

THE renaming of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) as the Moshood Abiola University of Lagos (MAUL) by the federal government as announced by President Goodluck Jonathan in his 2012 Democracy Day address to the nation came to many as a rude shock.

The students and staff of the University were so outraged as to embark on protests both within and outside the school's premises.

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