On Wednesday, hundreds of students from the University of Benin in Edo State marched out in protest of the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ ongoing strike.
According to reports, students protested near the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, calling for the rapid reopening of public universities across Nigeria.
Students at UNIBEN, who had protested around the university’s gate and environs, had declared ‘UNISTREET,’ which meant that Nigerian students would now be giving lectures on the streets, with some of them acting as lecturers, all in an effort to protest school closure.
On Tuesday, a protest at the University of Lagos was put down by highly armed security officers, including men from the Nigeria Police Force, stationed outside the school’s gate.
The lecturers’ strike, now in its fourth month, has forced public universities to close since its commencement, supposedly because the Federal Government had failed to meet the lecturers’ requests.
The government had been accused by ASUU of failing to pay earned academic allowances, continuing to use the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, and refusing to embrace the Universities Transparency and Accountability Solution, among other things.
