Students beg asuu to suspend the strike

Some of the University students beg asuu on Thursday to consider their future and resume to work in their various Institutions.

according to Punch that some of the students, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu, expressed worries and lamented as they appealed for the suspension of the prolonged (that is 9 months) strike.

the students said they were tired and frustrated due to the time wasted without any academic achievement.

They said the strike would make them remain in the University more than it was necessary.

As you all know ASUU has been on strike since March this year 2020 over dems for more funding for public Universities and renegotiation of the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement.

others are outstanding earned academic allowance, the proliferation of constitution of visitation panels to FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES.

A law student at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awkwa, Augutine Azubike, said he was appealing to the University lecturers to consider the future of the Students and to return to work.

He also added that the incessant strike embarked upon by the lecturers was affecting the quality of University Education in the Country.

Ann Chukwu, another university student of Linguistics Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka expressed worry over the lingering strike, adding that her private business, located within the University, had been static since the Strike.

My business, which is within the University premises has been static since the lecturers embarked on strike and the Business has been the source of income for my school and accommodation fees Ude lamented.

A Mechanical Engineering Student, from UNN, Daniel Onyekachukwn, said the incessant strike by public universities workers had altered the Academic Calendar and the Student's time of graduation.

Onyekachukwn appealed

"Our lecturers and governments should consider students from poor families, whose parents are not financially buoyant enough to send their children and ward to private and foreign Universities"

Am unhappy over the strike said Joe Ezike of the department of Psychology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University as his rent had expired.

"My anger over the strike is that the money I paid for my off-campus accommodation before the strike has expired without proper use of the room"

Ezike complained.