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[size=14pt]UNILAG Suspends Academic Activities For Two Weeks[/size]
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Wed, 30/05/2012 - 12:23pm | AGENCY REPORT

The Senate of the University of Lagos on Wednesday directed that all academic activities in the institution be suspended forthwith, for two weeks.

The directive is contained in a statement signed by the university's Deputy Registrar, Mr Seth Dare, which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

According to the statement, all students are to vacate their halls of residence, latest by 11.00 on Wednesday, May 30.

``In view of the recent developments on our campuses, the Senate of the University has directed that all academic activities be suspended for two weeks.

``The university security has been mandated to ensure compliance,'' the statement said.

It, however, said that the burial arrangements for the institution's late Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, who died on May 12, would still go on as planned.

Students of the university marched through some major streets in Lagos Mainland on Tuesday protesting the re-naming of the institution after the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election, Chief M.K.O. Abiola.

The university's new name of Moshood Abiola University was announced by President Goodluck Jonathan in a National Broadcast as part of the activities to mark the 2012 Democracy Day on Tuesday.

Jonathan had explained in his speech that the institution was re-named after the late politician because of Chief Abiola's contributions to the enthronement of democracy in the country.

NAN reports that the students’ protest continued on May 30, with some of them blocking the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos.

The University of Lagos, which is Federal Government-owned, was founded in 1962. (NAN)

http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/26109/2012/05/30/unilag_suspends_academic_activities_two_weeks.html

[size=20pt]...And so was MKO unloved and his name spat on![/size]

Gbawe is a rascal!

Gbawe: I forget that , as a failed 419ner and scammer, you are a jobless and homeless hobo who sleeps under the bridge in London. You must be the only fool who does not know that , as a very common example, Train Station waiting rooms are heated in the UK. I guess those waiting rooms are owned by Uduaghan and not classified as heated public space. Olodo. Obvious you are the only liar here. A very m.o.ro.nic one as well.

Anyway, when you are jobless and homeless, how will you ever have need for a Train Station waiting room? If you will carry on this groupie thing, at least try and rent a decent brain.

Gbawe! Gbawe!! Gbawe!!!
How many times I call you so? Why do you like lying so much?

Gbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaawe!!! Show us the bridge in London that is airconditioned nau!
Are train station waiting rooms the same as bridges? Or is Amosun building a train station waiting room? All these thieves and their funny stories sha! Na wa o!

Una jus wan tif.

Olodo! Mumu! Ode! Ole!

CyberG: Haha...let's see the bastard president glad-handling the nations wealth to everyone but not the generality of the people. Will the so called owners of the oil (Nigerians) step up to the plate just once in a lifetime to shut down this retarde.d drunkard son of theirs??

Shut your dirty bucket. The oil does not belong to you.
Occupy your cocoa, cows etc, I occupy my oil.

@topic
All hail Gbawe and his rumours. I have said he will soon begin quoting from ovation magazine. Anything with a nice sounding lie will do.

Any Nigerian that is not aware of the contents of GEJ's speech yesterday is plainly stup!d.

Demdem: So u did this with me and u are still in the business of sucking the Retardeen's arse constantly. Na wa for u ooo. U remind me of baba gana kingibe.

But today, you think MKO's name is not worth it and university's old name was a "brand" and "legacy" that is worth more than MKO's.
Shame on you.
Dude, I am not a hypocrite like you. I was for MKO, then and I am now.

We stopped an armoured column under Palmgrove bridge, unarmed, but believing; many of us died. You are a hypocrite, bro.

joshuapharm: @beaf is back with his usual show of unparalled ignomitious stupidity..

What is your problem? Do you deslike MKO? That is who I have been rooting for.

Do you feel bad that I carried out demonstrations and doggedly fought for Abiola and June 12?
Do you acquire emotional gangrene, because I proclaim that MKO worth is not something for silly people to compare to their ego's and what they call their "brand?"

[quote author=Ejiné]This is a very progressive "Environmental Challenge Project".

If I'm correct, the AC's in this bridge will be powered by Aregbesola's groundbreaking O-Power. And while standing in the bridge, you might want to help yourself to some O'Meal as you look down on the craters potholes littered on the road.

Now, that's what I call PROGRESSIVE! [/quote]O-Gbawe! O-ga o!

adolfe bad: Even your grand father cannot claim to know more about the politics of Abiola than ADOLFE does.
[/b]I have told you to forget about whatever transpired between MKO and IBB.
[b]Everyone cuts one corner or the other and I'm not sitting here to discuss with you about tales of conspiracy and betrayal.
I'm discussing the life of a HERO.
I'm showing you the reason MKO is a proclaimed hero.

I will give you an assignment now LIKE your teachers do.
Search through the history of Nigeria back and forth, from cover to cover and name any PHILANTROPIST like MKO you find.
He funded over 60 secondary schools, built over 100 mosques and churches in the nation, has over 150 traditional titles bestowed on him from different communities all over the country, he built libraries, his boreholes provided free water for tons of people.
HE gave money to people in need resiliently like free wine,
or have you forgotten so soon that ABIOLA bookshop he built where people who could not buy a book could go and get for free?

HE probably touched more people in his lifetime than a combination of you and your grand father(pls no offense) has done.

And you wonder why people rallied round and supported him in mass?
You wonder where that CHARISMA came from that even village people loved and wanted him?

Listen here GANJA-JUNKIE. . .

If there is any HERO you want in times like this, who would touch so many lives directly, he is someone LIKE MKO ABIOLA.
A PHILANTROPIST passionate to just keep helping and helping people.
He is more than a HERO.

Tell them, bro. We didn't get out on the streets to risk our lives for a man without essence.
MKO was a very great man that touched many lives in ways no individual has in the annals of Nigeria.

Baawaa: Assuming GEJ first splash the school fee by 35% and now change the name believing me,no protest,no hullabaloo.But he(GEJ) has nothing to offer,he just want to get point politically!

My broda, how do you "splash" school fee's? Ayam just asking o!

brabus: [size=18]POMP AND PAGEANTRY[/size]

Gov. Amosun spend N1.3b to [size=15]EXPAND[/size] and not construct a road of 2.4km

[size=15]Take Note of this![/size]

(a)  The road itself and the desirability of its expansion vis-a-vis its socio-economic significance.

(b) The number of kilometres involved in relationship with the cost of contract.

The stretch of road has no concentration of medium or big businesses. No concentration of Banks, Petrol Station, Government office, Hotel, entertainment outfit or edifice of note, and importantly, the road does not experience any major traffic gridlock to have warranted this luxury expenditure.

This is to say the [size=15]expansion[/size] is a waste, undesired and a self serving initiative to siphon state funds; suffice it to say that his uncompleted mansion is located within the area.

Mathematically, [size=18]Amosun is constructing a kilometre for N500million![/size]

Is that development?

Daniel dualized 37km Abeokuta-Kobape-Siun-Sagamu road @ N52m per km for N1.93b

Oya talk now! Who's a thief?

This post is endorsed by Beaf.
Gbawe, what do you have to say?

Gbawe: Once again, this is the mischief you display time and time again that shows you are one of those who contribute not based on what is written but according to opposing/siding with certain posters. My talk of weather is in response to the nonsense below you had no comment about:

My talk about weather is to highlight how the argument above is totally stupid. Obviously you don't have a problem with it because it is submitted by one of your co-travellers in mischief.

Naturally, London's focus will be more to do with heating being a generally cold City for much of the year. Why should anyone then ask a Nigerian State to take its cue from London considering the entirely different climatic challenges of both?

Are you as stupid as the i.di.ot who submitted the above not to know that London spends a massive amount heating public places throughout the year thereby nullifying the silly argument of your 'pal'? That is my point. The weather dictates that London spends on heating, most months of the year, and not air-conditioning. This, the City indeed does. Weather challenges also means Nigeria can do the opposite if funds and priority allow i.e spend on cooling to keep citizens comfortable. Seriously, you guys are ruining this forum with how you go around opposing others routinely from thread to thread without engaging your brain or comprehension skills.

Sharrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrap dia!
Mum! Ode! Olodo! Ole!
Just point out a single airconditioned bridge in London since they heat public places according to your lies.
Una just wan tif. Ole!

Its all about madness.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/715924_OgunAirconditionedBridge_jpgcb4913b1b3d1d481387c6fe222e91ad7

salakobaba: What is all this noise about weather condition, people walk and work inside the sun and rain everytime, they'll only spend 3-5mins on the bridge depending on the distance and how fast the person is, then they'll return back to the sun or rain or whatever, so what has weather got to do with this.

The worst part is that from the video I have posted, the road does not even need a pedestrian bridge. Traffic is quite light on it and zebra crossings would do just fine. Zebra crossings are just paint (a few thousand quid only).

What we have here is very dangerous poverty of imagination and very likely, a nake'd lounge at the "cookie jar."

Mau-mau fighters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising

ifeci: don't call it ego, legacy preferably.

Lol! An ego soaked brand/legacy carries greater weight than the brand/legacy of MKO?
Really?
That argument sounds empty, ironic and hypocritical.

NL and comedy!

adolfe bad: How old were you at the time of Abiola's career?
I was just one sand on the BEACH of the supporters of that MAN.
Forget about inner circle and outer circles.
We wanted HIM on that seat because we had followed him all through his career.
He had the people behind him and he was a symbol of DEMOCRACY. . .because everyone was tired of Babangida's iron fist rule.
And he is still being honored till.
Next time you meet your history tell him a certain ADOLFE asked you to slap him for planting inside your childish head that Abiola isnt a POLITICAL HERO.

Tell them, bro.

Gbawe! Tell us what needs attention.

Again, this is the road the wonder pedestrian bridge is going to cross:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxHDXG20ctk[/flash]

...And this is a primary school in a rural area in Ogun state:

www.nairaland.com/attachments/557431_Ogun1_jpg57160e6ad47cd6f6179bcbb19f78d20a

Gbawe: Please go and sit down. You are once again exposed as a class A m.or.on with your im.becilic submission that a Country with cold weather for perhaps 8 months out of 12 , with more of an interest in heating than cooling, should provide the lead for a Nation with arid conditions for almost 12 months. You cannot even deduce logically valid comparisons a 6 year old can work out. What is proof you just argue for the sake of it other than the nonsense you write below?

This is all you do these day. Go around derailing threads and preventing positive discussions with your bellicose Olodo submissions that is limited to fighting folks via creating stupid argument to say B when they say A. What have you done here if not made a fool of yourself? This is why, everywhere and on every thread, all you get is insults from everyone. Shameless ode.

Broda Gbawe's "positive discussion!"

To cut your meaningless epistle short; it is now not that you people are stealing, but that Amosun is bringing winter to Osun, so that he can build a bridge with heating and cooling!
Okon come e! Dis matter bele don bend o!

https://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/oprah_laughing_animated_gif.gif

Amosun, the "innovative" governor!

REDs house: you are as stu.pid as ur name implies
is it a must that we compare ourself with london or america, why cant we just do what is right by bringing innovations to the country irrespective of states . or is it because ur malu president has nothing to offer than boko haram and corruption... i pity you and ur generations to be, that was how the great awo was citicize when he brought tv and radio to naija .

Ah ah! E be like say dis one na NURTW wen don shak alomo bitters!
"Innovation!" English don suffer!

Dude, the only innovative thing about that id!otic bridge is tha fact that it is a brazen attempt to steal money by people like you and Gbawe.

Nematode.

Gbawe: My brother, learn to ignore the imbecilic m.o.r.on. What is the point responding to a dull.ard who writes:



Even the slowest of r.etards knows that the UK does not share climatic conditions with Nigeria. In fact comparing the UK's climate to that of Nigeria is like comparing night to day. The olodo is not bright enough to see that the UK spends inversely far more assuaging the discomfort of climate by heating trains and public places. It is clear, some in their haste to oppose others, fail to engage their brain before speaking. The UK has more need for heating than cooling. The opposite is true for Nigeria.

The Countries we do share climatic conditions with use air-conditioned footbridges also and , unless costs and total scope of projects are enumerated, we are only pandering to ignorance shouting here. I would personally like to gain more information about the project in its entirety before commenting either way.

Seriously, you are a real fool. Is this not Totoro Road where the wonderful "airconditioned" Bridge is going to be? Does it look any different from a battlefield for poverty? Who needs an airconditioned bridge to cross any road, talkless of one that looks as much a witches playground as that one?

What a wicked, thieving fool!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxHDXG20ctk[/flash]

REDs house: but of recent snow fell in abeokuta

[size=14pt]Kpuho! Kpuho!! Kpuho!!![/size]

Unu go take laf broke antelope waist o!

https://i.imgur.com/UPBvj.gif

Gbawe: Usually, some pedestrian bridges are totally enclosed for safety reasons especially when they link malls and or buildings. If the design decision is that an enclosed footbridge works best, then it must be cooled also. I am not saying I support this but we should not condemn it routinely either without knowledge of the entire scope of the project.

Enclosed airconditioned footbridges , such as that seen below, are common and can be a design/architechural neccessity in relation to what will be linked. We just don't know enough to be entirely negative.

[img]http://imagesus.holiday-rentals.co.uk/mda01/01f4467b01e447775fc56e88e849783f1911576e[/img]

My brother, as usual, I feel like slapping you.
"design/architechural neccessity?" Are you mad?
The evil in you decided it would be best to post a pic of part of a set of luxury ocean front condominiums from Panama City. Built for the stinking rich, by the stinking rich. Its (USD)$99 - $165 per night and $695 - $1,795 per week: http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p230091. But here we are talking about Ogun state! If I could lay my hands on you this moment, you would be certain that there would be boys to punch you in parts of your body you never knew existed; people to physically work you over until the evil spirits cleared from your glutinous thieving eyes.

Why is it you that is always present to defend lies and stup!dity? What is wrong with you?
You claim to live in London, can I ask where in that illustrious city you have seen an airconditioned bridge? Let us take note that the budget for Greater London alone is two thirds of that of the entire Nigeria. If there is no airconditioned bridge in London, rich as it is, why should there be one anywhere in Nigeria where shocking poverty is rife?

It is clear as daylight that the money for this wonder bridge is being lined up to be stolen. For what reason outside stup!dity does anyone need to be airconditioned on a bridge?

Why would you come and support absolutely id!otic things? Do you have a heart and a soul? Why are you so wicked?

Logic Mind: If it were true, it would be a good thing and I would never describe it as despicable and condemnable. The only regrets that I have is that they are not true. Believe me, it is also in my interest that these "atrocities" be proven because the thought of your kinsmen dying in agony from biafran bullets will make me sleep soundly.

Well, more than enough proof has been provided from both sides in the conflict, so you can "sleep soundly."

Pukkah: Sincerely, the arguments against the rejection are obtuse and rooted in pure sentiments. It's actually embarassing to listen to many of the arguments from supposed graduates. So Nigeria has sunk this low!

To be honest, I can't understand it. It seems almost like people are claiming that a brand name is bigger than the name, meaning and sacrifice of Abiola.

Abiola lived in Lagos, the pro-democracy riots were centred in Lagos, Kudirat Abiola his wife was shot at 7Up junction on the route to the new Ojata Freedom Park. Everything about MKO has Lagos written on it, yet he is being so crudely rejected.

Most of those who are doing the rejection today, ran away when we were carrying out the struggle in the streets, facing amoured cars and tear gas bombs dropped from helicopters (you could hear the explosions from miles away). Where were this Judases when we were facing Abacha eye-ball to eye-ball?

Pukkah: Is it not presumptuos to think that ACN is organizing to reject the name change?

No, I have seen just about enough of what is going on to suss that out.

[size=14pt]The son of the late politician, Abdul Abiola, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview that the family sees nothing wrong with the decision of the government in honour of their late father.

[color=#009900]"We are shocked by the reactions trailing this development," Mr. Abiola said.

"My late father believed so much in education. He donated money to universities across the nation. Naming a university after him was a well-deserved honour.

"He should still be given more honours. We see nothing political in this. We are happy about it and we are yet to understand the rationale behind people going up in arms over this."[/color]

According to Mr. Abiola, the renaming of an institution as big as UNILAG after the late business mogul and philanthropist is just one of many ways to honour and immortalise him for all he did for the country's education sector when he was still alive.[/size]

Thank God!
The family is proud and happy for the name change, while ACN is organising rallies for fools to reject his name.

[size=14pt]The son of the late politician, Abdul Abiola, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview that the family sees nothing wrong with the decision of the government in honour of their late father.

[color=#009900]"We are shocked by the reactions trailing this development," Mr. Abiola said.

"My late father believed so much in education. He donated money to universities across the nation. Naming a university after him was a well-deserved honour.

"He should still be given more honours. We see nothing political in this. We are happy about it and we are yet to understand the rationale behind people going up in arms over this."[/color]

According to Mr. Abiola, the renaming of an institution as big as UNILAG after the late business mogul and philanthropist is just one of many ways to honour and immortalise him for all he did for the country's education sector when he was still alive.[/size]

Thank God!
The family is proud and happy for the name change, while ACN is organising rallies for fools to reject his name.

[size=14pt]The son of the late politician, Abdul Abiola, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview that the family sees nothing wrong with the decision of the government in honour of their late father.

[color=#009900]"We are shocked by the reactions trailing this development," Mr. Abiola said.

"My late father believed so much in education. He donated money to universities across the nation. Naming a university after him was a well-deserved honour.

"He should still be given more honours. We see nothing political in this. We are happy about it and we are yet to understand the rationale behind people going up in arms over this."[/color]

According to Mr. Abiola, the renaming of an institution as big as UNILAG after the late business mogul and philanthropist is just one of many ways to honour and immortalise him for all he did for the country's education sector when he was still alive.[/size]

Thank God!
The family is proud and happy for the name change, while ACN is organising rallies for fools to reject his name.

Airconditioned pedestrian bridge? For what?! Is it an office?
And here I was thinking Aregbe was the only supremely useless ACN clown in power!
Na wa o!
All hail ACN! Incredible stup!dity.

kabba7: The rejection is not of MKO but of the clueless Jonathan whose rating is demises by the hour but want to use MKO to wickedly improve his corrupt regime posture in the eyes of Nigerians , that has fallen flat .
Meanwhile has the national assembly amended the law setting up UNILAG ? He probably want to carry out a coup then go back to the National assembly to legalise hid illegality .
Those with the thinking MKO is not loved should forget that cheap thinking...

It sounds like a very solid rejection of MKO from where I stand. I will repeat that I am very proud to have personally taken part in MKO struggle as a mere teenager, indeed I visited his house at Opebi on quite a few occasions.

What is going on is deeply shocking, embarrassing and painful. The arguments for the rejection only sound more foolish with each passing minute.