ASUU strike: Students protest in Lagos, Benin, vow to block N’ Assembly, airports

STUDENTS from various tertiary institutions in Edo State on Monday barricaded the gate of the Benin Airport, along Airport Road, in protest against the three-month extension to the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The resulting gridlock forced motorists to divert into the Government Reserved Area in search of alternative routes.

ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, had in a statement, after a meeting of its National Executive Council at the University of Abuja on Monday, announced the extension of the strike for another 12 weeks with a view to giving the Federal Government enough time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues between them.

The protesting students from the University of Benin; Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma; and Edo State Polytechnic, Usen, were also at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council, to register their grievances. Meanwhile, the National Association of Nigerian Students has condemned the strike extension, saying the failure of the government to reach an agreement with ASUU underscored its lack of concern and empathy towards the plight of average Nigerians who could not afford private universities.

NANS President, Sunday Asefon, in a statement titled ‘ASUU strike extension: The silence of the government and the ruling class; the nation must feel the heat’ in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, said having exhausted all windows for constructive engagement with the government, NANS had declared national action from Tuesday.

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