Adeyeye Olorunfemi, a student activist suspended from the University of Lagos for four semesters in 2016, has finally graduated from the institution.
Mr Adeyeye, alongside some students, were suspended from the university in a list posted on the institution’s website for participating in a protest in April 2016.
The protest led to suspending the students’ union body in the institution, while the affected students faced penalties ranging from two to four semesters of suspension from academic activities.
The university claimed the students were suspended for breaching the school’s code of conduct.
Mr Adeyeye, who graduated from the Department of Building, was reinstated in 2022.
On Monday, Mr Adeyeye, who graduated from the institution after seven years of suspension, wore a white T-shirt with black inscriptions ‘I did not just attend UNILAG, I attended to UNILAG’.
The activist took to his Facebook page to express his gratitude.
He wrote, “It needed ATTENTION and I gave it FULL ATTENTION. To continue the big things…Grateful.”
UNILAG had accused Mr Adeyeye of criticising the institution’s leadership in an article titled, ‘The Senate of the University of Lagos; a Conglomeration of Academic Ignorami’, posted on his Facebook page.
Mr Adeyeye was accused of not being remorseful and considered a major reason for the delay in his graduation, even after he had already served his punishment in 2018.
