Students of tertiary educational institutions today protested the failure of Federal government to heed to the demand of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other Union of tertiary institutions.
They blocked the popular University of Ibadan-Sango, and other roads in Ibadan.They also barricaded the main gate of the university and other routes that lead to the University of Ibadan and Sango from Ojoo.
The development forced commuters plying the University of Ibadan-Sango-Bodija Road to find alternative routes and caused heavy traffic in the early hour of the day.
The students, who described the strike as needless, said that they will continue to occupy the roads until the institutions are opened.
One of the students, Damilola Olubunmi said the ongoing industrial action is affecting not only the students but their parents.
“I am here because we need to tell the Federal Government that students must resume. The strike is not affecting the students alone.The essence of this is that when the road is blocked, people cannot move and they will trend it for us. Then the government will know that we protesting.
“The security agents are here, newspapers will carry it, then when they give them the feedback they will know that we are talking. Then the government will seat. We are not doing it only in Ibadan. It is a nationwide protest,” he said.
Another student, Solomon Emiola, called for the end of all strikes in the country,saying:“We are here because of ASUU, NASU SSANU strike. We want the Federal Government to use this as the last strike.We want all the strikes to finish. This should be the last strike in the history of Nigerian students”.
