Mr Afufu said that education is a right of every Nigerian and should not be trivialised by the government and elite in society.
The students chanted solidarity songs and displayed placards with inscriptions, including ‘End ASUU Strike’, ‘Save our future’, and ‘Stop Toying with our Future’,
Students converged on Ibadan, close to the University of Ibadan gate, to stage a peaceful protest over the ongoing warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
“We will make concerted and sustained efforts to bring back ASUU and the federal government to the negotiating table.”
ASUU has extended its ongoing warning strike by 12 weeks as President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime fails to accede to the union’s demands.
SSANU) and NASU have commended the efforts of labour minister Chris Ngige over resolving ongoing labour crises involving the university unions.
PDP has called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to immediately address the strike embarked upon by lecturers in public universities.
“The bosses in the Federal Ministry of Education do not feel the strike. There are things that are above me. I am not (the) minister of education.”
“I’m using this opportunity to plead with the NLC to which ASUU is affiliated, to call them to order, make them obey the law…”
We are determined to end the dubious pronouncements by the government claiming commitment to sound university education…”
