Students ground UNILAG, YABATECH

Students yesterday grounded activities at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka and the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) over disagreement with the authorities on academic and welfare issues. The YABATECH students locked up the entrance gates of their institution in protest against the sudden death of their colleague, Dazan Charity Oluwabukola, a Higher National Diploma II student of the Department of Office Technology Management.
it was learnt that:  the students had rushed the late Dazan to the medical centre on Tuesday night but the centre had rejected her claiming there was no bed space.
A source said: "We rushed her to the clinic when she had crisis in the night but she was rejected. She was referred to the Federal Medical Centre in Ebute-Metta and when we got there the hospital demanded N35,000. Our inability to raise the money led to her death. You can imagine a final year student with the best result of 4.93 CGPA in her department dying of negligence.”

The protesters, who had caused gridlock on the campus, had blamed the university for denying them promotion to 200 level medical college at Idi- Araba. They said the university had introduced new rules in the middle of their programmes against the practice.

One of them said the new development was targeted at ensuring admission into the medical college of the diploma programme students, who he noted, had paid handsomely for the programme. “So the regular students will be the victims of the diploma students.”