UNILAG students protest victimisation as Indian VP visits campus

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A student unrest is ongoing at the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

Reports say the students are protesting over alleged victimisation of union leaders who led demonstrations in April over scarcity of water and electricity on UNILAG’s Akoka campus. Some of the students were suspended over their role in the protests.

*In April, UNILAG authorities called the police to evict protesting students.*

The protest coincides with the visit of India’s Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari to the school. Odd enough, Ansari will be delivering a lecture titled “Legacy of Indian Freedom Movement” at UNILAG Main Auditorium.

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Well, it is.

UNILAG authorities, during the April protest, called police in to shut the demonstration. Video shared online showed a polive vehicle violently ramming into the school’s main gate which had been shut by protesting students.

A source told NewsroomNG this morning the school management have called in the police again.

“I counted seven police vans, they’re everywhere,” the source said.

*Water scarcity: Day UNILAG became a Nigerian petrol station.*

Reports say the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), which had warned UNILAG to reverse its decision to suspend the affected students, is behind the latest protest.

UNILAG student union (ULSU), which was suspended in the aftermath of the April protest, is also involved in the ongoing demonstration.