YABATECH Students Run Riot Over Suspicious Death Of a Fellow Student

Hundreds of Students of University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) in Lagos staged massive protests in their respective campuses on Wednesday which paralyzed all academic activities. At UNILAG, undergraduate students of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) blocked the main entrance to the institution’s main campus in Akoka. The aggrieved students said they were protesting the new policy of the institution which placed restriction on the number of students who can transfer from Main Campus to the College of Medicine.
At Yabatech, students also blocked the main entrance to the institution when the news of the death of an HND II student, Dazan Charity Olubukola who was admitted to the school medical centre filtered in.

Dazan, who was a student of Food and Technology department, was said to have been maltreated by medical staff. The poor treatment, according to the grieving students was responsible for Dazan’s death and subsequent protest that grounded all academic activities.