Students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife have staged a protest to demand an immediate resolution of the crisis between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the federal government.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities extended its ongoing strike for another 12 weeks after a meeting of the National Executive Council of ASUU at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja.
A statement signed by ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke said the rollover was to give the government enough time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.
Shortly after, students took to the streets chanting anti-governmental slogans while demanding that the government resolve the strike and let them go back to school.
Some of the placards they wielded has inscriptions such as ‘Strike has killed our educational sector, we need to go back to school’, and ‘We are tired of FG/ASUU’ among others.
They threatened to occupy the streets if the government fails to listen to them.
In the same vein, the National Association of Nigerian Students has vowed to block all federal roads and airports in the country to protest the 12-week extension of the strike by the striking lecturers.
In a statement, NANS President, Sunday Asefon, condemned the inaction of the federal government while insisting that students of public universities would disrupt primary elections and conventions by political parties scheduled for May ending.
