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LASU Riot: Lagos State University Students Stoned VC Over Portal Closure
January 23, 2014 – LASU Riot: Lagos State University Students Stoned VC John Obafunwa Over Portal Closure
The situation at Lagos State University right now is very tense as angry students took to the campus destroying multi-million naira properties.
Some even stoned the school’s VC, Professor John Obafunwa as he ran for safety.
The riot has disrupted LASU’s 2nd semester exam.
What Caused LASU Riots
According to reports from Lagos, the Vice Chancellor prevented over 1290 students who are yet to register for their 2nd semester courses from gaining access to the registration portal as examination was to commence today.
Only 708 students out of the 2000 were able to successfully register before the registration portal was shut down leaving over 1290 stranded.
When the students union government went to plead on behalf of the students, the VC was reported as saying 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.
The student started a violent riot and destroyed most of the school’s properties. Stones and sticks were thrown at the VC’s convoy as he ran away from the school premises through an alternative route beside Conoil Gas station.
Below are the pictures from the riot.
Tunde Anifowoshe
January 23, 2014 at 3:50 PM
I’m a final year LASU student and this is very unfair to some of us.
Today would have been prof obafunwa’s last day on earth.
He is a wicked man
Esther
January 23, 2014 at 3:56 PM
Good for shameless lecturer,why shld dey do such a thng.To carry over a course after d long awaited strike…Great Lasu student…..
bezo
January 23, 2014 at 3:59 PM
He was very lucky, I search everywhere for him and was nowhere to be found, your jars really helped for vanishing 2day, that same jars will fail you next time, idiot vc
Ibana Meu
January 23, 2014 at 4:17 PM
Most of these VC care less about the students this is what he deserves
davies
January 23, 2014 at 4:46 PM
this vc’s administration is so bad can you imagine students who finished 4rm lasu 15 yrs ago are yet to get their result pls he should be sacked and let someone sensible replace him pls.he dose not know what it takes to be a cv.senseless animal like him.
parrot
January 23, 2014 at 5:17 PM
if our students d do diz steady by nw naija uni 4 dn mk sense, diz lecturers are heartless, d only tin de sabi na to sell textbuks at high price nd still refuse to teach…hw cn u say dat ova a 1000 students shuld carry a session ova?
esther eke
January 24, 2014 at 11:49 AM
@parrot u 2 dey talk.
Denzy
January 23, 2014 at 5:18 PM
This is horrible fa? Pls students make una take am easy oh.. But come oh Some VCs in Nigeria are just hrtless.
Abba Lento.
January 23, 2014 at 5:22 PM
That was ungentlemanly of the Vc after the long stayed @ home he still behave the way! Anyway, the God who saves him will put in him the interest of the students in his heart else.the fervent prayer of those students will mean more than imaginations. Make una help me tell-am oooo.
ben
January 23, 2014 at 7:09 PM
The atitude of lecturers and the whole administrative body is nothing to be reckon with, the whole administrative body is always not serious and heartless bunch of people only God knows what is wrong with lasu. I am a part time student of the school and i know what am talking about, thank God for fasola who has finally taking steps to scrab anex studies of the school, the younger generations would have been a victim of the bush animals. If the VC had his son among the students would he have made that kind of statement?
Ken Ojlove
January 23, 2014 at 7:29 PM
What else do we expect from set of pple who have nothing to offer but to exploit the poor masses. like political leaders like lecturers
Paul Lucky
January 23, 2014 at 8:22 PM
i solemly prayed for God intervention on Nigeria day – day activities.
corruption, bribery, strike, greed, selfish, pride, wickedness, etc characterized nigeria.
God, take charge of our nation oh………..
payogo
January 24, 2014 at 5:10 AM
My fellow nigerians, i guess maybe he needs to complete his project: so the reason for that who knows they well all suffer for this, becos what ever you do to the least of my brothers that you do unto me!
davien
January 24, 2014 at 5:33 AM
When the president doesn’t care for educational funding that costs students +3 months @ home,when the minister of education cannot update the 17th century knowledge still taught in nigeria….go abroad and tell a science student there are only three states of matter…you would be laughed at!… When a doctor cannot tell you if you need to take an x-ray to evaluate a fracture that requires an artificial shunt,when the minister of health and governors give crutches to lame people without prosthetics or physical training,when people with revolutionary ideas that can and will transform the country are left in the dark,when a campaign is held by someone who promises every and anything but does not explain how it will be done or performed that the current person in charge hasn’t done(that is what a campaign is,you tell everyone how what you are saying can be done,not promises)can’t you all see we need to have a new revolution… one were knowledge is updated and is presented in a multitude of ways that no one wouldn’t understand…and an industry that feeds and cares for workers,a law that prohibits large vehicles on roads that are busy on workdays…a law that requires people to have bus passes to use bus transports freely for students and or workers at cheap pprices….a law that makes sure there are armed personnel in those buses that secures the passengers…a law that makes sure data and educational centres are automated and thereby free for children who are poor…powered by a barrage of eco-friendly sources….an infrastrucure that opens up cases on international ban on trding devices like paypal to nigerians and makes an organization where people who want an account are recorded and prosecuted if found to be engaging in illegal activities…a biometric system for the country to monitor over or under-population.. and many more…but alas the people are frail and can be told when and how to protest,what and not what to believe,choose what to and not have relationships with,what questions to ask and not ask…can’t you all see we are the sheep in an ever entangled complicated realm of injustice and corruption..
blinkzz
January 24, 2014 at 7:17 AM
Tunder fire dat stupid Vc Bcos say him pikin dey abroad dey skull na mak he say mak all dose ppl to carry d course ova again….NA GOD SAVE U….WE FOR KIILL U LYK FOWL
esther eke
January 24, 2014 at 11:47 AM
I wish he was dead.