pmarine: Some of you guys don't think at all, If you attend or attended unilag, you'll understand it. OAU was renamed after awolowo because he fought for the cause when he was premier of the western region and built the school. He contributed a lot to western education etc, I am not in anyway down grading mko but GEJ's move is political and unacceptable. They should build new universities, new roads etc and name them whatever they like.

and if they build new universities, you will be the first to say it is misplaced priority!

ND Graduates of MAPOLY can now proceed on Direct Entry to MAULAG without any form of screening...JONA (Part 2 of democracy day Broadcast)

If I am Joe I will name it after Rashidi Yekini, adding all those their funny yoruba names. Or after one Mazi from Igbo.

the students are total fools, if not what concern them with name change, they spending just 4-6 years to get the needed training, out of that place for good and face the life.

Why not name one of d NEW 9 universities after MKO?

toideve: Ehya! UI is next

yea...it wld b renamed Olusegun Obasanjo University. Or Gani Fawehinmi University.

University of Lagos sounds cool..

University of Las Gidi is better..

But Moshood Abiola University?? That's some funny shyte right there.... Who wants to pronounce that??

Just like the Murtala Muhammed Airport

Nigerians and their double barrel names - I hail thee...

Our Nigerian youths keep chasing shadows:
We have our prestigious University of Lagos being re-named in Honor of a True Democrat, an Icon, and a percieved leader in the west "MOSHOOD ABIOLA". Instead of these students to show some respect to "M.K.0". They are making noise that the name is not toosh'd #smh4disgeneration#.
We have Nnamdi Azikwe university... Obafemi Awolowo University... So what's wrong wit Moshood Abiola Universty Mchewww!! Like say na d name b d koko or d system dat makes d skool
I'm certain our ibo broda's will be more than happy if we have an eastern university re-named after odumegwu ojukwu..
Y d noise... U guyz should better b proud of ur Ancestors!!!!

ekt_bear: MKO Abiola University is a very razz name, to be quite honest.

'University of Lagos' sounds better.

'Abiola University' sounds better.

Just doesn't sound crisp.

I'd be pissed too if I were them.

I agree! Just as razz as the following names: Joseph Wharton, oral Roberts, Robert Wood Johnson, Sloan Kettering, John Harvard, Leland Stanford, MD Anderson, Williams and Mary,Brigham Young, Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd, Rice, Sarah Lawrence, Johns Hopkins, Mary Hardin-Baylor, Henry Rutgers, Elihu Yale etc.

I am sure you'd be pissed if you graduated from one of the aforementioned university?

Now their girls go fit keep their yansh for one place. The name go corrupt their acceptability in the "Runs Street".

no dullin: Our Nigerian youths keep chasing shadows:
We have our prestigious University of Lagos being re-named in Honor of a True Democrat, an Icon, and a percieved leader in the west "MOSHOOD ABIOLA". Instead of these students to show some respect to "M.K.0". They are making noise that the name is not toosh'd #smh4disgeneration#.
We have Nnamdi Azikwe university... Obafemi Awolowo University... So what's wrong wit Moshood Abiola Universty Mchewww!! Like say na d name b d koko or d system dat makes d skool
I'm certain our ibo broda's will be more than happy if we have an eastern university re-named after odumegwu ojukwu..
Y d noise... U guyz should better b proud of ur Ancestors!!!!

Imagine a university called: Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu University

That won't get you a job anywhere in the world.

MKO Univeristy, Moshood University, or Abiola University sounds better...

But who am I to critique the naming??

I'm just having a laugh.

sincerely, i think mko abiola`s name deserves to be honored on special occasions like this but changing unilags to name is totally out of it. places like the international air-ports, the abuja national stadium, the eagle square and so on could have been named after him. guess our JONA is up to is old tricks again. i smell a rat!!

Who's Olawunmi Abiola? See what she said https://www.nairaland.com/950050/whos-olawunmi-abiola-she-brand

werepeLeri:

and if they build new universities, you will be the first to say it is misplaced priority!

What is misplaced about that, the clueless president should have a scale of preference and set his priorities right.

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Pls I want to ask. Are those who joined the school from various community secondary schools also in the protest?

you guyz are on your own.
dats bros j agenda for the SW
enjoy

[quote author=mcnepow]UNILAG was kinda posh - but with MAU, shakara don end! They ask for it. Gej shld nt consult anybody to serve them right. He is the president!

GEJ got it completely wrong, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic is there, he should have simply spent some money to upgrade the standard polytechnic to a university nobody will have any problem with him. In fact the people from Ogun State will be happy, but he pick Unilag that is already a big brand and all in the name of trying to please the people bring down the image a great school. If GEJ is allowed to succeed with this change, then before we know it lots change will take effect with the next democracy day:

Example of the new changes so we are aware ahead of time:

Nigeria to Biafra

Lagos to Nairaland

University of Ibadan to Adedibu University

Every Nigerian must now add Obansanjo as their last name

If you think this is a joke wait until the next democracy day, there are more important matter on the ground, he should stop Boko Haram and get 2nd term vote

no dullin: Our Nigerian youths keep chasing shadows:
We have our prestigious University of Lagos being re-named in Honor of a True Democrat, an Icon, and a percieved leader in the west "MOSHOOD ABIOLA". Instead of these students to show some respect to "M.K.0". They are making noise that the name is not toosh'd #smh4disgeneration#.
We have Nnamdi Azikwe university... Obafemi Awolowo University... So what's wrong wit Moshood Abiola Universty Mchewww!! Like say na d name b d koko or d system dat makes d skool
I'm certain our ibo broda's will be more than happy if we have an eastern university re-named after odumegwu ojukwu..
Y d noise... U guyz should better b proud of ur Ancestors!!!!

Nonsense. The name change is uncalled for. BTW the name sounds stupid.

Moshood Abiola University MAU...the "MAU" sounds Kenyan to me....reminds me of Ngugi's Weep not Child. But Abiola sure deserves immortalisation and a varsity of UNILAG standing isn't too much. Infact, he doesn't deserve any less, so y are those foools protesting? They want a sexy name like Birmingham University, coventry or Robert Gordon? Tomorrow, someone will cry..."immortalise MKO". And I ask, with what, if not one of d best schools in d land?

novaman: GEJ got it completely wrong, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic is there, he should have simply spent some money to upgrade the standard polytechnic to a university nobody will have any problem with him. In fact the people from Ogun State will be happy, but he pick Unilag that is already a big brand and all in the name of trying to please the people bring down the image a great school. If GEJ is allowed to succeed with this change, then before we know it lots change will take effect with the next democracy day:

Example of the new changes so we are aware ahead of time:

Nigeria to Biafra

Lagos to Nairaland

University of Ibadan to Adedibu University

Every Nigerian must now add Obansanjo as their last name

If you think this is a joke wait until the next democracy day, there are more important matter on the ground, he should stop Boko Haram and get 2nd term vote

MEANINGLESS

shymmex:

Imagine a university called: Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu University

That won't get you a job anywhere in the world.

MKO Univeristy, Moshood University, or Abiola University sounds better...

But who am I to critique the naming??

I'm just having a laugh.

a military university would be appropriate for the ikemba nnewi. ok

Just in case government does not reverse the name, lets put the records clear here. *clears throat* MADONNA UNIVERSITY reserves the right to the acronym MAU. Moshood Abiola university, pls look for something else.

Why does our President take decisions that are blatantly unpopular with the people

The person(s) who advised him to change the name of University of Lagos to MOSHOOD
KASHIMAWO OLAWALE ABIOLA UNIVERSITY LAGOS, are they living in this same Nigeria with
the rest of us?

Mr. President said that he had consulted widely before announcing the name-change, but,
given spontaneous protests by Unilag students against the name-change, Mr. President had
obviously not considered the Unilag body of students relevant during his wide consultation.

Can we have more pictures?

Pukkah: Today, very few people even remember that Obafemi Awolowo University used to be known as Unife. As at that time, there was also some sentiment against the name change to OAU. Some alumni even refused to refer to the school as OAU preferring to stick to the defunct, arguably more prestigious, Unife.

However, time cures everything as the initial scepticism and kicks that greeted the change to OAU is now history. Such is life. I'm not surprised though that the present Unilag's, sorry MAU's undergrads are protesting against the name change. They were not old enough or unborn when MKO held sway and were probably very young when MKO paid he supreme sacrifice for the democracy that is in place today.

I'm not holding brief for Jonathan but you see, time heals everything. Very soon, only a few people will remember, just like the case of Unife or OSU, that MAU was once known as Unilag. The questions should be: does MKO deserve he honor, was due process followed in the name change, and so on?

This looks like a great post.

All these blackberry students should better face their studies. When did naming and renaming of schools become the prerogative of students. Imagine how some posters think, UNILAG is swagzz, is a brand, sounds international and all those rubish talk. Is that the problem of UNILAG and other universities in the country. What do you expect when they have turned an academic environment into a social entertainment complex. Is this the first time such renaming happened? Students of this generation have lost focus and lack priorities. In a community where there is inadequate facilities, gross underfunding, lack of power, water, teaching aids, research grants, project sponsorships and schorlarships, what the students protest about is what doenst add value to their degrees and lives. I weep for Nigerian youths for having lost the intellectual capacity to intelligently discourse issues, analyse situations, draw deductions, make projections, profer solutions and take actions that can bring positive change and add meanings to their lives. It is a shame they are even on the street at all when they sat back while their future is being eaten away by the political class. In my generation, students led protest against repressive govt policies and actions. Anti SAP riots was a glorious show of peoples power orchestrated by NANS. Not any more, what we have now is cultism, ashawoism, commercialisationism, showbizism. Student power is dead and with it peoples power .

R.I.P Unilag...

Donmeca: Moshood Abiola University MAU...the "MAU" sounds Kenyan to me....reminds me of Ngugi's Weep not Child. But Abiola sure deserves immortalisation and a varsity of UNILAG standing isn't too much. Infact, he doesn't deserve any less, so y are those foools protesting? They want a sexy name like Birmingham University, coventry or Robert Gordon? Tomorrow, someone will cry..."immortalise MKO". And I ask, with what, if not one of d best schools in d land?

MAU MAU University!!!

NL is jokes man, I tell ya..

Kenyan University in the heart of Lagos.

GNBohr: [b]All these blackberry students should better face their studies. When did naming and renaming of schools become the prerogative of students. Imagine how some posters think, UNILAG is swagzz, is a brand, sounds international and all those rubish talk. Is that the problem of UNILAG and other universities in the country. What do you expect when they have turned an academic environment into a social entertainment complex. Is this the first time such renaming happened? Students of this generation have lost focus and lack priorities. In a community where there is inadequate facilities, gross underfunding, lack of power, water, teaching aids, research grants, project sponsorships and schorlarships, what the students protest about is what doenst add value to their degrees and lives. I weep for Nigerian youths for having lost the intellectual capacity to intelligently discourse issues, analyse situations, draw deductions, make projections, profer solutions and take actions that can bring positive change and add meanings to their lives. It is a shame they are even on the street at all when they sat back while their future is being eaten away by the political class. In my generation, students led protest against repressive govt policies and actions. Anti SAP riots was a glorious show of peoples power orchestrated by NANS. Not any more, what we have now is cultism, ashawoism, commercialisationism, showbizism. Student power is dead and with it peoples power [/b].

Touche !

mcqt21: GEJ,,,if u 1nt war...jus try renamin uniben

That is ikemba odumegu ojukwu university na