Talk:University of Lagos

Oldest University
I do not think that the Universities of Lagos, Ife and Ibadan were the three oldest universities in Nigeria. The University of Nigeria was the first, although Ibadan was much older as a College of London University. Bduke 07:47, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Copied from article
"The current student populationof unilag has changed. a presentation made by the VC in 2003 showed student population at 41,792 and alumni population at 80941".

If you can source this, edit the page to reflect the new numbers. Until you do, it belongs here not on the main page. --Bduke 08:00, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

not sure which university was created after ui but the fact is Universities of Lagos, Ife and Ibadan are all first generation universities along with others like Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

I believe that technically the University of Nigeria was the first. The University College at Ibadan (founded in 1948) is really the first, but was only made a full university a little later than U of N. Many others were created just after independance. The reason for making the University of Nigeria first was it was the brain child of the then President. Their web site says "formally opened on 7th October 1960, as the climax to the Nigerian independence celebrations in the Eastern Region.". The University of Ibadan web site has much detail of the founding of the University College in 1948 but skips over the formal founding of the University in 1960. This page about the University of Lagos says it was founded in 1962 (this site agrees), so the University of Nigeria does seem older. Ife was also 1962. When I worked in a Nigerian University in the 1970s and visited many of them, it was always stated that the University of Nigeria was formally the oldest. --Bduke 22:54, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

This acticle on the university of lagos is poor. Cant we get any closer-up pictures of both campuses ? No mention of the halls of residence as well as courses available or offered ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.82.91.222 (talk) 11:41, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

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University name
So it looks like today the name of the university changed from the "University of Lagos" to "Moshood Abiola University". There has already been a lot of edit-warring and vandalism of this page related to the name change. This name change looks quite politically charged and it looks like some of the students are protesting against it online, part of which is spilling over onto this page. I really know nothing about this school or these issues, so I have a question to people who know more about this: is this name change likely to be permanent? Is there any doubt about the power Goodluck Jonathan (the university president president of Nigeria) has to change the university name? And does the student protest have any chance of being successful? Really we will have to wait for more reliable sources to appear as events unfold, but if Jonathan does have the power to change the name like this then I think we should probably go with the new name in the article for the time being. Let me know what you think about this. Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 11:42, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The Washington Post has already reported about this here. Amsaim (talk) 11:47, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see Goodluck Jonathan is the president of Nigeria, not of the university as I thought. That will teach me to check these things more thoroughly before I comment here. I would guess that makes it a lot more likely that he has the authority to change the name, then. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 11:52, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I moved this page to Moshood Abiola University earlier, but it was probably premature. While Jonathan probably has the authority to change the name, I think a case could be made to keep the page at University of Lagos per WP:COMMONNAME. Gobōnobo  + c 14:42, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Please go ahead and move the article back to the way it was before the move. The University of Lagos is a federal university, and according to the The Vanguard, "...The Federal Government has the power to change the name of any of its institution but it must be done with approval of the university's council". Apparently, there is no evidence that the University's Council has given its approval. Thusly, moving the article was too early, and you should move it back. Amsaim (talk) 16:25, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Thexper (talk) 21:20, 29 May 2012 (UTC) The students are more or less unanimously against the change. Also the school authorities went to bed last night unaware of any impending change.

Here is a petition site that was created today and has garnered over 3000 signatures as at the time of writing this.

gopetition.com/petitions/referendum-against-unilag-change

I think a wise move will be to wait until the school official website is updated...if it will. unilag.edu.ng/

Thexper (talk) 21:20, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Homosexuality Controversy
I deleted the section that talked about the homosexuality research by Chibuihem Amalaha. Apparently he is a troll, the university doesn't endorse his homophobic message. He's a troll to whom ThisDay fell victim. http://www.unilag.edu.ng/newsdetails.php?NewsID=1332 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.46.245.31 (talk) 17:31, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

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unilag don't give admissions to wayward students, you must be displin in every aspect Soma chisom (talk) 16:17, 3 November 2021 (UTC)