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[3] During the Olusegun Obasanjo-led military regime, Dr. Jibril Aminu, the secretary of the Nigerian University Commission, announced that due to the high cost of living in the country, students would begin to pay extra fees.

[4] According to the Nigerian University Commission, tuition fee was to remain free for all undergraduates, sub-degree diploma as well as students of teacher education.

The students held meetings in Ilorin, Maiduguri, and Calabar before deciding to take the bold step of challenging the military government on the increment.

[1][2] To pressure the Federal Military Government into reverting the increase in fees, there was a nationwide boycott of lectures by all students in tertiary institutions whose local unions were affiliated with NUNS starting on 17 April 1978.

Akintunde Ojo; an architecture student at the University of Lagos was shot in the leg and he bled to death[7] because he was denied care at LUTH and Orthopedic Hospital, Igbobi.

[9] After a week of nationwide protests, the Federal Military Government shut down all universities and advised the students to go home.

[1][9] The Mohammed Commission of Inquiry was established to investigate the underlying issues that led to the protests, the persons involved and to make necessary recommendations.