The University of Lagos, known as Unilag, yesterday reinstated a student activist who had been suspended in 2016 for his involvement in protests in April of that year.
News site Sahara Reporters yesterday reported that Olorunfemi Adeyeye had been reinstated by Unilag authorities after the Department of Building student had been suspended along with other student leaders for taking part in a protest on April 6 and 8, 2016. He further angered the university when he made social media posts accusing Unilag’s management of failing to be democratic.
He had repeatedly appealed the suspension and in September 2020 Premium Times reported that he sent a lawyer’s letter to appeal for his reinstatement, saying that the report on the protest never recommended expulsion and that “all the other persons rusticated alongside Mr Adeyeye have been readmitted and since graduated from the university”.
Adeyeye yesterday shared a photo of his registration on his Instagram and Facebook profiles, with many messages of support coming in on both platforms.
