Students of Federal University Lokoja (FUL), on Monday, pleaded with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) not to resume its strike until after their second semester examinations.
The students’ plea came on the heels of ASUU’s Congress meeting on Monday deliberating on the Federal government’s alleged failure to pay its members’ salaries after resuming work on October 14 from its 8-months-old strike.
A cross-section of the students, who made the plea while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja, said it would be disastrous if their exams scheduled to commence on November 14 fail to hold.
A Political Science student, Miss Joy Abuh, said her prayer is that Monday’s ASUU congress would not end up with the resumption of the suspended strike.
“We have just settled down after the strike suspension and seriously preparing for our second-semester exams starting next Monday.
“It will be disastrous for us in FUL if the exams will not hold as scheduled, considering the eight months we have wasted at home.
“My fervent prayer is that the union will not declare any strike at the end of their meeting today in Abuja,” she said.
Another student, Adeiza Ibrahim, in the Department of Education, lamented the effects of any further strike on the Nigerian students and called for a rethink from ASUU to allow academic activities to continue while they settled their differences with the government.
– NAN