Release arrested colleagues, reduce fees — Unilag Students
* Police fire tear-gas at protesting UNILAG students ARMED policemen, yesterday, teargassed protesting students of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, who took to the streets to protest the hike in fees by the management of the institution. The university recently asked students to pay over N190,000 as against the previous regime of a little over N19,000 as fees. The policemen, drawn from many formations in Lagos, also took over the gate of the university, preventing the protesting students and others from entering the campus. The policemen, who came in over 20 vehicles, were joined by the university’s security personnel and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. Admission seekers, who wanted to get into the campus for screening process and other visitors, were turned back by security men, who locked the gate. After the protesting students, who were coming from Sabo area of Yaba to the campus, were dispersed by the policemen, who fired teargas canisters at ...