The World - News from May 25, 1986

Nigerian riot police surrounded the University of Lagos a day after the reported killing of at least four students on another campus. They eventually withdrew after blocking roads to the school. Students outside manned burning roadblocks and shouted slogans at the police, and bottles and stones were thrown on both sides. On Friday, police shot and killed between four and 10 students in disturbances at Ahmadou Bello University in the northern city of Zaria. The violence at that institution, the nation’s largest with 17,000 students, erupted over student demands for the removal of the vice chancellor.