ASUU Strike: UNILAG Pleads with Rema, Tells him to ‘Calm Down’

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A lively exchange between the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Nigerian rapper, Divine Ikubor (popularly known as Rema) has become a trending topic on Nigerian Twitter.

The exchange started after Rema, who revealed in January that he had gained admission to UNILAG to study Creative Arts, tagged his university to a reply to one of his tweets by Bowen University, a privately-run institution in Iwo, Osun State.

Rema had tweeted, “ASUU, since dem give me admission I neva start school o, e don do nau!”

Responding to the tweet, Bowen University wrote, “ASUU can’t delay you if you’re enrolled in Bowen University.”

Rema thereafter tweeted, “Unilag private university don dey Toast me o, I’m blushing omg stop it.”

To this, UNILAG replied with the hit track titled, ‘Calm Down’, from Rema’s latest album, Rave & Roses, while appealing to him not to abandon the institution.

“Hmm… Rema dear, UNILAG has chosen you o, Hmm… so don’t let anybody come dey change your mind o…Rema no dey vex for us o,” UNILAG tweeted in response.

Rema then responded with an appeal to the Academic Staff union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its lingering strike for the sake of Nigerian youths.

He tweeted, “Awww Unilag end the strike or I will go ooo, we want to go back to school pls the youths are not happy!”

To this, UNILAG replied, “Baby calm down”

Shortly after UNILAG’s tweet, Bowen University, not to be outdone, also responded to Rema’s latest tweet, saying, “Every Nigerian youth deserves true happiness and most importantly, value for their time. Choose value and happiness today, don’t let them tell you otherwise. You are loved.”

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