KING’S COLLEGE AND THE CONCESSION DRAMA

Following a meeting with representatives of labour unions last Wednesday, the federal government has suspended the planned concession of King’s College, Lagos, to the institution’s Old Boys’ Association by two weeks. The decision came after some workers and parents had converted the premier school premises into a battleground of sorts. They shut out members of the Old Boys’ Association from entering the school premises, leading to a confrontation and police intervention. The workers and parents were protesting the proposed 50-year concession, arguing that it amounted to privatising the 117-year-old- school which, according to them, would thr…