Tuesday, February 18, 2014

UNILAG To Name It's Hostel After Patience Jonathan

First they tired changing the school's name to Moshood Abiola University after much battle with the court, the whole idea was aborted. Now it has moved over to changing UNILAG's 15 storey hostel to Patience Jonathan's name. Like for what???.



According to Vanguard 
 Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Duro Oni, said the 15-storey building expected to cost about N3 billion would be named after the First Lady because of her contributions towards the lives of women (like what?).

 According to him, like other tertiary institutions, UNILAG had been having problem of accommodation hindering students especially the female students getting to school on time, saying “about 28,000 undergraduates struggle for 8,500 spaces every year in UNILAG.” (not an excuse to name her after the hostel)
 Similarly, Chairman of the Fund Raising Committee, Prof. Nwose Chukuma, said: “The parents’ forum is not only building a hostel to help solve accommodation problem in the university, the 15-storey hostel project is named after the First Lady to honour her for her numerous contributions to the development and emancipation of women in Nigeria and Africa.”

Still don't understand the reasons behind the change of name.

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