ASUU Strike: FG To Resume Talks Monday as Students Continue Nationwide Protests
Students of the Universities across the nation of on Tuesday staged a peaceful protest to express their disappointment over the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), vowing that they would not have anything to do with the 2023 general election if the government allowed the strike to linger.
THECONSCIENCENG gathered that such protests were recorded in Ilorin the Kwara state capital just as students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, staged a similar protest on the strike on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State.
There have been reports of how ASUU, on Monday, extended its rollover strike by 12 weeks to provide enough time for the Federal Government to attend to its demands.
UNILORIN students, during the protest, said they planned to take their protest to major places like the Government House, roads linking Ilorin Airport, state House of Assembly, Federal Secretariat, police headquarters, and the Department of State Services, among other places, if the meeting between ASUU and the Federal Government did not resolve the lingering crisis this week.
The protesting students lamented their continued stay at home due to the strike and called on the Federal Government to meet ASUU’s demands to enable them to complete their academic activities.
Speaking with journalists, the Students Union President, Taofik Waliu, said the protest was aimed at creating awareness among stakeholders and members of the public.
Waliu said, “We want to graduate. The Federal Government should meet ASUU’s demands. We don’t plan to move around town today. We hope that soon, the ASUU strike will be a thing of the past whereby about-to-be graduates can graduate and 300 Level students can move up, and so on.
“However, if nothing fruitful comes out after the Federal Government’s meeting with ASUU this week, we will move en masse continuously with other students of 10 educational institutions in the state to block roads to various places in the state capital to register our displeasure over the lingering strike.
In a bid to salvage the situation, the Government has said that it would resume talks ASUU on Monday
