ASUU strike: Students mobilise for protest, plan to mount road blocks in Lagos

Some Nigerian students plan
to organise a mass protest
aimed at highlighting the
woes bedeviling public
education in the country.
The students also planned
to block all major roads in
Lagos as a way to register
their anger at the ongoing
strike by the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU).
It was gathered that the
protest would be
spearheaded by the Joint
Action Front (JAF), where
students in the South-West
zone may block all roads
leading to Lagos State.
According to JAF, the
protests, which will kick off
at the Nigeria Labour
Congress (NLC) office at
Yaba, Lagos at 8am this
morning, will also include
zonal rallies in Kano, Ibadan,
Owerri, Calabar and Abuja,
among others.
According to JAF, the aim is
to draw attention to the
bleak future that awaits
Nigerian children due to the
neglect of public education
"while children of top
politicians and government
officials are trained in
private schools in Nigeria
and abroad with funds
looted from public coffers."
JAF secretary, Comrade
Abiodun Aremu, in a
telephone interview
explained that the protest
was not to molest anybody
but to force government to
pay attention to the
universities lecturers'
demands.
"We have mobilised
students concerning today's
protest; we also plan to
make it nationwide," he
said.
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