The World - News from May 29, 1986

Nigerian authorities ordered Lagos University and three other colleges closed and imposed a ban on demonstrations as students rampaged in the streets of Lagos to protest police killings of students. A total of 12 universities have been closed, and a wave of often violent demonstrations has swept campuses across the country since police killed a number of students in clashes at the Ahmadu Bello University in the northern town of Zaria last Friday. The official death toll at Zaria has been put at four.