Nigeria’s University of Lagos has been shut over student protests and the inability of people to reach the campus because of the ongoing fuel shortage.<\/p>\n
A notice from the university gave students living on campus until 1000 local time (0900 GMT) to leave.<\/p>\n
It blamed the decision on the “agitation” over poor water and power supply and the “fuel crisis” meaning that people cannot get to class.<\/p>\n
Nigeria’s current fuel shortage has led to long queues at filling stations.<\/p>\n
The country’s junior oil minister Emmanuel Kachikwu warned this week that if the problem is not solved then mayhem could follow.<\/p>\n
The University of Lagos authorities said it took the move “to forestall a further breakdown of law and order on campus”.<\/p>\n
But the BBC’s Umar Shehu Elleman reports from Lagos that hundreds of angry students refused to leave the campus, and instead called for the vice-chancellor to resign.<\/p>\n
The university has not said when the campus would reopen.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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