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Students in Ebonyi threaten to occupy Federal Roads till public universities are reopened

Last updated: May 20, 2022 9:41 am
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University students in Ebonyi State, South-East Nigeria are threatening to occupy federal highways and other strategic roads in the area if public universities are not reopened before Wednesday.

The threat is coming from students of the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo, who have given the Federal authorities a pre-notice.

The President of the Students Union Government, Jerry Okafor, said in Abakaliki, that the blocking of the roads will be in such a way that there would be a total lockdown of all the affected routes until their demand is met.

Nigerian public universities have been shut down from academic activities for over three months, with no hope of reopening insight, following the strike embarked by university teachers in the country.

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government have severally failed to reach agreements on the demands of the university teachers, which include; better welfare packages, and adequate funding for public universities, among others.

Okafor explained that the planned nationwide protest is a collective one, and is being coordinated by the National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS.

The student activist is expressing regrets over what he described as the nonchalant attitude of the Nigerian Federal Government to bring an end to the three months old industrial action that has kept the university students out of classes.

(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)

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