He said, “Our school has been shut down. Students are dropping out of the university on a daily basis. We decided not to engage the party leaders because the people in government do not understand any language. The only language they understand is protest.
“We have resolved to fight this struggle by ourselves. We are a pressure group in the country. We can do this alone. We do not want any person to fight for us. We elected Governor Fashola. We elected all the members of the House of Assembly. They must listen to us.
“Fashola promised us a ‘Better Rewarding Future’. How can we have a rewarding future without education? He has denied us education by the tuition hike. Section 3(1) of the law that established LASU stated that the university should be made available for all people irrespective of their socio-economic background and status. Now, the governor has made LASU the university of the rich.
“We will not leave until we hear something from the government. We have gone everywhere and the police shot at us. That is why we decided to come here today and tell the governor what is on our minds. Also, our colleagues arrested by the police must be released unconditionally.
“If the governor refuses to come out, we will remain here until he comes out. If the governor can respond to issues that are less important than this, he should come out and respond to the students of the state he governs.”
"The Ukrainian authorities are refusing to see any humanitarian problems. They are even speaking about the absence of refugees. It is a lie," Medvedev said at a Russian government session on Thursday.
"The so-called G7 even dares to talk about the "restrained actions" of the Ukrainian army against its own people. Cynicism knows no limit in this case," he said.
"We are always looking at what the US does when threatening the use of military force and this reminds us of the Cold War era," Michael McPhearson said, commenting on Obama's criticism of Russian 'dark tactics' and 'aggression' during a speech he made to mark 25 years since the fall of communism in Poland.
"The US continues to advocate policies of pushing NATO closer and closer to the Russian border ' and Russia has reacted to that," McPhearson said.
"We would like the US administration to take efficient measures to curb participation of mercenaries from abroad in Kiev's punitive operation against the protesters, against the people fighting for their rights in southeastern regions of Ukraine," Ryabkov said in an interview with Interfax.
