On Thursday Jan 23, 2014, Lagos State University students who were not given an opportunity to register their examination courses resorted to violence, disrupting the university’s second semester examination and destroying properties in the process. According to sources, the crisis started Wednesday over the closure of the university’s registration portal, and it led to stoning of the University Vice Chancellor Prof. John Obafunwa, as he tried to evade the riotous students who had blocked the main gate and made bonfires on the Lagos-Badagry expressway.
 
It was disclosed that the crisis started when the VC decided not to open the registration portal for over 2,000 students who are yet to register their second semester courses as exams was to begin Thursday, though the banks are still collecting school fees from students, whose hope of registering gets slimmer by the day.

Only 708 were able to register before the portal was shut again leaving, 1292 students to their fate.


The students union government allegedly went to plead on behalf of the students, but the VC said those yet to register are insignificant and would automatically have to carry the session over, a statement which infuriated the students and they decided to take laws into their hands.