LAGOS, Nigeria - (AP) -- Police
in Nigeria's largest city have
used tear gas to try to
disperse a crowd of several
hundred university students
angry at the president's
decision to change the name
of their school.
The protest began peacefully
Friday at the University of
Lagos. But students then
surrounded an armored police
truck and beat on it. Police
fired tear gas and students
responded with a barrage of
thrown stones.
They were protesting a
decision Tuesday by President
Goodluck Jonathan to change
the name of the city's flagship
university. Jonathan said the
University of Lagos -- known
as UNILAG -- would be
renamed Moshood Abiola
University in honor of a
political prisoner who died in
jail over a decade ago.
Source: Newsday.com
University name change sparks violent protest in Nigeria
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