Governor Fashola renames hall to honour slain Yobe students

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola yesterday Thursday February
27th renamed a hall initially named after him, to “Peace Hall’’, in
memory of slain Yobe school children.
Vanguard reports that the hall was constructed by the Lagos Zonal
Council of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers
(NUPENG), located at Fadeyi in Lagos.
Fashola said at the inauguration of the hall earlier named after him by
NUPENG that he changed the name to honour the slain secondary
school students.
"I appreciate NUPENG’s gesture but I will rename this edifice
`Peace Hall`, in memory of the lives of the children that were
brutally slain in Yobe by insurgents. The Children will soon be
forgotten but as a reminder to us and the need to stand up for
what is right, I ask that the hall be re-named as NUPENG’s Peace
Hall, as we all search for peace across Nigeria. While we pray for
the repose of the souls of these young ones, it is also a moment
we must stand up as a nation. Whatever language you speak,
whatever faith you practise, whatever ethnic/tribe you claim, this
is the time it will not show. No matter how diverse we are, we are
still one people, this is a time when colours and flag do not matter
and political ideologies mean nothing. This is the time we must
show and respect the values of the lives of fellow Nigerians’’ The
governor said.