Kogiflame
The Student Union Government (SUG) of Federal University in Lokoja, has joined their counterparts across the federation in issuing an ultimatum for seven (7days) days to the federal government of Nigeria to as a matter of urgency resolve all the lingering issues with the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU).
They warned that they would be left with out any option than to embark on a nationwide protest to drive home their demands.
President of the students union body at the federal university in lokoja in Kogi state, Comrade Oguche Ojofeyo who led his members on a peaceful protest earlier on Thursday made this known while speaking with newsmen at the University main campus in Lokoja.
Comrade Oguche stated that their demands is for the federal government to urgently resolve all the lingering rancor with ASUU warning that the SUG as a body might be forced to block all the highways and federal government infrastructures if the three months old strike action embarked upon by ASU is not resolved appropriately within the next seven days.
He noted that the nationwide protests might be far beyond the last end SAS Protest because they, has Nigerian students are fed up with the incessant strike action.
He decried the situation in which Nigerian students have been subjected to stagnated academic calendar as unbearable and unacceptable saying” that employment has age limit and NYSC also comes with age limit.
The SUG President further decried that the incessant strike action is taken its toll on the the students mental and physiology States.
He expressed sadness, that the federal government actions or inaction would have enormous jeopardy on the future of the students since their ages are counting by the day.
Some of the students who spoke with the newsmen equally laments on the adverse effects of the strike action on the students economic well-being which includes extended payment of house rents that is more than necessary.
