University of Lay Adventists of Kigali University of Lay Adventists of Kigali The University of Lay Adventists of Kigali (UNILAK) is a private university owned and operated by the Federation of Adventist Parents Associations for the Development of Education in Rwanda (FAPADER) which is an association of several lay Seventh day Adventist proprietorship secondary school associations that include: UNILAK was approved through the Convention No. 001 of 3 February 1997, which was signed between the Government of the Republic of Rwanda, and FAPADER. The Institution obtained legal identity as a nonprofit association under Rwandan law through the Ministerial Decree No. 89/11 of 2 July 2004 and
Kigali new independent nation, but Kigali was chosen because of its more central location. The city grew slowly during the following decades, but retained a small-town feel, with just 25,000 people and five paved roads by the early 1970s. On 6 July 1973 there was a bloodless military coup, in which minister of defence Juvénal Habyarimana overthrew ruling president Gregoire Kayibanda. Businesses closed for a few days, and troops patrolled across the city, but life had returned to normal and the army had left the streets by 11 July. In April 1994 President Habyarimana was assassinated, when his plane was shot