ASUU/ASUP Strikes Update: Gridlock As Protesting Students Storm Lagos Roads

ASUU/ASUP Strikes Update: Gridlock As Protesting Students Storm Lagos Roads: No fewer than 500 students of polytechnics, universities, and even secondary school leavers, yesterday, protested on the streets of Lagos under the aegis of the Concerned Citizens Against Education Commercialization, COSATEC.

The  protest was to register their displeasure at the Federal Government’s lack lackadaisical attitude towards ending the incessant strikes in the education sector.

ASUU Strike: Nigerian Government, Lawmakers to Hold Crucial Meeting on Tuesday

One week after university lecturers across Nigeria commenced an indefinite strike the Federal Government said it is taking steps to resolve the contending issues.

The Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa’I, on Monday also appealed to the lecturers, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to suspend the strike and “go back to classes”.

Ms. Rufa’I, who made the appeal at a meeting with vice-chancellors of Nigerian universities in Abuja, said: “we plead with them to go back to classes.