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Medical school closed since 1 August, students protesting after a hundred days: the 2025 strike at LAUTECH, and why a recognised college can still lose you a year
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, runs a College of Health Sciences that is accredited by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools. In the second half of 2025 its medical students were not in class, and the reason had nothing to do with accreditation.
According to Sahara Reporters, the medical school was closed indefinitely from 1 August 2025 after clinical lecturers, organised under the Medical and Dental Consultants' Association of Nigeria and the Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics, went on strike over the university's failure to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, a pay scale other public universities in south-west Nigeria had already adopted. By early November the strike had passed a hundred days, hundreds of medical students were reported stranded, and students had begun daily protests from 4 November demanding that teaching resume. Nigeria Education News reported students describing the strike as having dragged beyond a hundred days with no resolution, and a students' rights group condemned the state governor over what it called neglect. The reports noted the risk that a prolonged closure could threaten the programme's accreditation.
This is not a fraud. It is the other way a medical degree goes wrong: the college is real, recognised and competent, and the student still loses a year, or more, because the system around the college stops. Nigerian universities have a long record of academic strikes, and a clinical-years strike is the most damaging kind, because ward rotations cannot be caught up online.
Why it is on a site about scams. Agents who sell Nigerian and other African medical seats to students from elsewhere in the region present accreditation as the only question. It is not. Before committing fees to any public university, look up how many weeks of teaching it lost to strikes in the last three years; ask current students, not the admissions office; and ask what the college does for clinical rotations when its own hospital staff walk out. A recognised college that cannot teach is, for the year in question, no better than an unrecognised one, and no agent's "guarantee" covers it.
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