The authorities of Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, has announced the indefinite closure of the school, citing the forthcoming general election as the reason for the closure.
In a statement issued by the institution on Monday and posted on its website with copies sent to both staff and students via their mobile phones, the management urged all occupants of the campus to vacate the premises immediately.
The statement read in part; “In view of the forthcoming national and state elections scheduled for March 28 and April 11 respectively, the University management has declared recess for both staff and students with effect from Monday, March 23, 2015.
“Students and staff are therefore advised to vacate the campus immediately.
The date of resumption will be announced later.”
The latest development, which is against the position of the Federal Government that no holiday should be declared by schools based on elections, may not be unconnected with the alleged deployment of armed policemen to the University Monday, which prompted another protest by workers of the institution.
Sources told our correspondent that the entrance gates of the school earlier locked by the protesting coalition of the workers’ unions on the campus had been forcefully opened by the security guards and the barricades removed.
The development had further angered the workers’ unions whose reactions had allegedly created tension on the campus, leading to the eventual closure.
It would be recalled that the workers’ unions under the umbrella of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Senior Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), had last week protested and disrupted the institution’s 20th convocation ceremony, which kicked off on March 13 with a Jumat service, calling for the sack of the Vice-Chancellor Professor Oladapo Obafunwa.
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