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.
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U can imagine how nigerian students are starting d new year
ReplyDeleteCrazy VC
ReplyDeleteLASU is always involved in one crisis or d oda & closing down
ReplyDeleteMaybe d asuu strike wasn't enuf for dem
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