In reaction to the ongoing strike by University and Polytechnic staff unions (ASUU, ASUP, NASU, SSANU, SSANIP), students of various institutions across Nigeria have started a demonstration.

The students, under the aegis of Concerned
Students Against Education Commercialisation
(COSATEC), are pressing home the demands of
the agreement reached with the striking
unions by the Federal Government. A student from Obafemi Awolowo University,
who chose to be identified as AY Struggle,
said: “The government has refused to comply
with UNESCO’s recommendation that 26 per
cent of the country’s budget should be
allocated to education. “They only approved a mere 8.4 per cent,
which is not even enough for only the art
department in universities. 10 to 15 students
are made to share one microscope and yet
they expect the best from us.” Ganiyu Ibrahim, a student of Yabatech,
described the Federal Government’s neglect of
the unions’ plea as “deceitful, high-handed,
insensitive and irresponsible”. Some of the students, who expressed their
frustration, said that most of the
administrators in power did not have kids in
Nigerian institutions and that was the reason
the government had had no concern for the
plight of the students since the inception of the strike over two months ago.

Road block at Onipanu by the protesting students..

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