LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ? More than 1,000 university students and unemployed youths have taken over a main artery leading into the business center of Nigeria's largest city.
The students took over the third mainland bridge Wednesday morning, halting traffic into Lagos' islands, and commandeered at least four buses to block traffic lanes. They were protesting a decision Tuesday by President Goodluck Jonathan to change the name of the city's flagship university.
Students sang and waved palm fronds as police stood by. Passengers stepped off buses and walked to work in the islands.
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.
Associated Press
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