Activities at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Ekiti State, were paralysed yesterday as workers protested poor conditions of service.

The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Isaac Asuzu, and other senior officials stayed away from work as the protesters barricaded the access road to the campus, singing war songs.

The protesters, comprising academic and non-academic staff, trooped out from 7am, blocking the Ado-Ikole-Omuo-Lokoja Road, which leads to Abuja. They lit bonfires on the road.

Travellers were stranded as vehicles with passengers took alternative routes.

The protesters urged President Goodluck Jonathan and Education Minister Ibrahim Shekarau to probe the finances of the university.

They accused the vice chancellor and bursar of lack of transparency.

They said FUOYE workers earn less than their counterparts in other federal universities.

The placard-carrying protesters claimed that Asuzu denied them of hazard and relocation allowances, regretting that workers with lower qualifications are placed above those with higher degrees.

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