Latest Update: Protest in UNN over sack of chairman of governing council

Residents of the university town of Nsukka, woke up Wednesday morning to the largest demonstration of members of staff of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, since the university was founded.

 Academic and non-academic workers of both campuses converged on the campus in a spontanous peaceful demonstration to demand the reinstatement of the Chairman of the Governing Council, Prof Emeka Enejere,
who was said to have been suspended.

They chanted songs saying it was the Vice Chancellor, Prof Bartho Okolo, instead, who should be sacked. After marching for half of the day and some members of staff addressed the press at the Freedom Square, they however, dispersed, promising to return for daily demonstrations until the Council Chairman was reinstated and other ills of the university which they alleged originated by Prof Okolo were corrected.

 A professor told Vanguard that ”the Federal Government would have to choose between only one man (Okolo) or working with all of us.” More stories coming