Lanre Akinola
Sixteen years ago, Lanre Akinola completed academic requirements to receive a degree in statistics from a Nigerian university. But Akinola had taken on extracurricular activities: protesting against military dictatorship and filthy dorms.
The University of Ilorin withheld his degree, and did the same two years later to Rasheedat Adesina, another protester.
Last month – 15 months after Nigeria’s Supreme Court ruled that the withholding was “capricious, oppressive, illegal” – the university finally awarded Akinola and Adesina their degrees.
While Nigeria is now ruled by an elected, civilian government, universities continue to punish activists and conditions on campuses in Africa’s most populous nation have reportedly gotten no better.
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