Kaduna - Some undergraduates in Kaduna have
ventured into various vocations to keep them occupied
as the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) persists, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports.
Some of them who spoke with NAN on Friday in Kaduna
said that they had to find something to do, to keep their
minds occupied and avoid trouble.
Grace Ocholi, a 300-level student of English at Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria, said she secured a temporary
job as a fuel pump attendant at a petrol station in
Sabon-Tasha area of the city to enable her earn some
money until the end of the strike.
"Everyone in my house go out every morning to work,
and my younger sisters go to school while I stay home
and sleep awaiting for their return.
"I am not okay with staying idle so I decided to engage
in something useful," Grace said.
Seun Ali, an HND Computer Science student of Kaduna
Polytechnic told NAN that he worked at a friend's
barbing saloon to earn some money instead of staying
idle at home.
Another student, Henry Samuel of Mass Communication
Department, Ahmadu Bello University, said he was
assisting his father in selling tiles before he was
admitted to the university.
Samuel said he had to continue manning the business
until the end of the lecturers' strike.
"So instead of wasting time waiting for the prolonged
strike to end, I returned to continue from where I
stopped," he said.
The students advised their colleagues to engage in
something meaningful while the strike lasted, so as not
to fall into the temptation of going into crime due to
idleness.
NAN recalls that ASUU had been on strike since June
over the non-implementation of a 2009 agreement it
entered with the Federal Government on the funding of
public universities.
- NAN

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