K,k:
GEJ's i.q is too low to have this kind of ideas.

ekt_bear:

Loving MKO doesn't mean that UNILAG should be renamed after him.

Bill Clinton is pretty popular among democrats and democratic-leaning states.

Did anybody decide to rename Harvard after him?

The problem is that Nigerians enjoy mixing politics up into everything.

That MKO was a great politician, etc, etc doesn't mean he needs to have a university named after him...

Let alone one of the oldest and most prestigious/popular universities in Nigeria.

bayooooooo:

Of all your posts on Nairaland, this is one I agree with you 100%. It's a good move but still not enough.

We need a day, a federal declared public holiday for MKO.

For people making case why Harvard has not be renamed Bill Clinton, Harvard is not University of Massachusetts or a Federal University. Besides, Clinton did not lead any struggle. May 29 is a perversion of the truth, the real democracy day is June 12.
I may have personally preferred naming Uniabuja at the centre of the capital after him, Unilag is just fine.

ekt_bear: If you like, make June 12th a national holiday.

Name one of the new universities w/o histories after him.

Name something in Abuja after him.

But to take a 50+ year old institution and name it after him?

That is disrespectful to the institution, state, and arguably him...

Just a crude, classless move

Ikengawo:

everyone claiming you can't rename it because of it's prestige is a joke. Look at the way these yoruba kids spell '4life'....wtf is '4live'? lol
pathetic. Is this the prestige we're talking about? stop celebrating failure, the school in an international disgrace. These kids wouldn't
pass an entrance exam to a school in Congo and now they're prestigious in the name of GEJ bashing. prestigious 4 live nko?

The George Washington University (GW, GWU, or George Washington) is a [size=14pt]PRIVATE[/size], coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on February 9, 1821, as The Columbian College in the District of Columbia

Gbawe:

Oh they are "Yoruba Kids" now? If Lagos is "no man's land" and everyone makes wild claims as to their population, how unintelligent and nauseatingly bigoted do you sound suggesting that these girls are Yoruba? Or is it just the case you concede automatically that Lagos is Yoruba when negativity is on the menu yet will be happy, on another thread, to say otherwise when the issue is about property/business ownership?

You folks are always falling over your untied shoelaces of bigotry. "Yoruba Kids" indeed. Don't you see Yoruba written on their forehead. Only a silly bigot, when we all know the melting pot UNILAG really is, would say conclusively that these Ladies are Yoruba even as it does not matters if they are since every honest person will admit writing skill is generally on the wane everywhere in the world. Young Americans, Britons and the worldwide facebook/social networking generation write like this , as a universal problem, yet only your sort would make a problem of humanity an ethnic issue 'afflicting' Yorubas but never your ethnic group.

bestview:


See mumu, UNILAG students cannot even compete in a mere debate from student from UNIZIK or UNN. No be this same unilag wey parents dey buy admission like macaroni? Unilag is good for garbage. It maybe melting pot in prostitution and show off which is not a hallmark of academic excellence

bestview:


See mumu, UNILAG students cannot even compete in a mere debate from student from UNIZIK or UNN. No be this same unilag wey parents dey buy admission like macaroni? Unilag is good for garbage. It maybe melting pot in prostitution and show off which is not a hallmark of academic excellence

Akanbi_edu: This may not be a plot but . . . . it is highly anticipated by political observers that if Jonathan wants to contest for 2015 presidential elections (most likely the case), he will try to destabilize the SW. This expectation is based on experience.

Beaf:

There are already a few federal universities named after individuals. Unlig is far from the first, for example we have, Ahmadu Bello University, Obafemi Awolowo University, Bayero University, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University etc.

The simple truth is that ACN people find it embarrassing since they define themselves as an ethnic group (rather than a national party) and feel wrongfooted because they have done absolutely nothing to immortalise the name of Abiola. Its just embarrassed politicians venting because they have been exposed as not very caring.

denko: The Yorubas claimed to love MKO, they even celebrate june 12. This has vindicate IBB, the Yorubas do not and will not like themselves. This is not the first University that a president will name after an individual why all bad bele pipo for naija.

papatosibe:

Ignorant post. What is fundamentally wrong with renaming UniLag after a man who paid the highest price so the rest of us mere mortals could enjoy democracy. American made democracy, that is.



Is Bill Clinton dead? Was Bill Clinton ever denied his mandate? Next time compare apples to apples, not apples to walnut.



Hrrvard and Unilag? For starters, Harvard is already named after someone, why chnage the name to another name? Secondly, Harvard is a private institution, Unilag is not. The FG can do whatever they want with their school. After all, he who pays the piper . . . you know the rest. GEJ is not renaming Covenant or Lagos Business School. He knows his bounds



That is because politics is everything. Since you don't know, this is how people way smarter than you see politics:

Politics (from Greek politikos "of, for, or relating to citizens" as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy.

As you can see from the above definition, politics to a great extent is involved in everything/decision we make.



True. That said, you will agree with me there is nothing wrong naming a university after him, NO?



GEJ is not setting a precedent. Ife, OOU, NAU, ABU, Uthman Dan fodio/ University of Sokoto , to name a just a few, have all gone though the same process. It is just a matter of time before UI is renamed.

Some of the finest Universities in North America were named after prominent individuals. Heaven did not fall because of that. The rioting students will eventually accept it and if not, they'd better start pooling their money together or better still their credit card points to fund their beloved Unilag henceforth.

manny4life: Like they say, what is good for the goose is good for the gander, hypothetically speaking, what if a SW, or Northerner becomes president and decides to rename a brand name school in the SE, how will many of my fellow s react? I've followed the arguments on here, and most seem valid while some IMO invalid.

These schools have made brand of their own, they stride to be the best, it's true we may have heroes in the community, or nation, however, there are certain things that should be left untouched. Tampering with a schools name that had little or nothing to do with the subject at hand is uncalled for.

flexya: Are there no lawyers, previous or present legislators on this Forum? The University of Lagos would av been created by an Act of Parliament/National Assembly. In that law would av been a section that reads something like, "It shall be known as the University of Lagos". Any deviation or proposed change 2 that name would require an amendment 2 that law. What GEJ or the executive av done(or proposed 2 av done) is ultra vires (beyond their power) and invalid in the eye of the law. Any 200 level law student should know this and can approach the court. Simple. Why all the stress and protest?

bestview:


See mumu, UNILAG students cannot even compete in a mere debate from student from UNIZIK or UNN. No be this same unilag wey parents dey buy admission like macaroni? Unilag is good for garbage. It maybe melting pot in prostitution and show off which is not a hallmark of academic excellence

ekt_bear:

Loving MKO doesn't mean that UNILAG should be renamed after him.

Bill Clinton is pretty popular among democrats and democratic-leaning states.

Did anybody decide to rename Harvard after him?

The problem is that Nigerians enjoy mixing politics up into everything. That MKO was a great politician, etc, etc doesn't mean he needs to have a university named after him...

Let alone one of the oldest and most prestigious/popular universities in Nigeria.

igbo boy:

for someone that claims to be living in yankee this your analogy na wa o...Yankee don pass our level of reasoning, because clinton popular will not make any university change its name to his name. Highest they can name of of their schools(e.g school of business to his name or create a fund/endowment in his name finito).

democracy, governance, politics et al are universal but the apporach and bottom mechnanics are never universal (they tend to be unique based on social/cultural/religious norms)