A student activist, Mr Olorunfemi Adeyeye, who was rusticated in 2016 by the University of Lagos for organising and leading a mass protest
Adeyeye, who was reinstated in 2022 and is now a graduate of the Department of Building, was suspended alongside some student activists for participating in the April 6 and 8, 2016 protests, which led to the shutdown of the school and the subsequent indefinite suspension of the University of Lagos Students Union.
Adeyeye was also accused of criticising the leadership of the institution for their inability to manage situations as “democrats” in a Facebook article titled: “The Senate of the University of Lagos; a conglomeration of academic ignorami.” Sharing his sign-out pictures on his Facebook page on Monday, Adeyeye, shown standing at attention, wore a white shirt with the inscription, “It needed attention, and I gave it full. To continue the big things. Grateful.”
The PUNCH reports that while under suspension, UNILAG authorities also accused Adeyeye of leading a team tagged: “Save UNILAG Coalition,” comprising individuals from the National Association of Nigerian Students, onto the school campus to disrupt the activities of the office of the Dean of Student Affairs on March 31, 2016.
The university had, in a statement, said Adeyeye and other student leaders were not victimised because of their involvement in the protests on campus but because they were found to have breached a part of the regulations in the university’s 2015-2016 student information handbook.
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