Many Nigerian public university students have continued to express worry over the strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, as a result of the impasse between the federal government and the union.
Some of the students, who spoke with ABS Correspondent Emmanuel Chigbata, appealed to both giants to pursue a genuine path to resolve the conflict.
The popular age-long aphorism which states that when two elephants fight, the grass suffers, could best be described as the situation of the Nigerian Students, who are termed the nation’s future leaders.
It will recalled that these students have been out of classrooms since February fourteen, 2022, while other unions such including the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, also declared theirsp, shutting down the university system completely.
The unions said the strike action was to compel the government to implement various agreements reached with it, but both parties failed to struck a balance after several negotiations.
However, the Nigerian education system is currently on a screeching halt as many students are gradually losing interest in education system as the strike action have led to poor academic performances, increase in rent, rushing of academic activities among others.
Speaking on the development , a student in the English Language and Linguistics Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Comrade Aloysius Chigbata, said the current strike action is already doubling his frustration as a student while lamenting the pains of attending public university in Nigeria.
While lamenting about rent, Comrade Chigbata called on fellow students to use this period and be skillful in order to earn a living, since ASUU and the federal government are still playing the ostrich game.
A final year student of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Miss Ozioma Anyabueze, expressed worry that Nigeria as a country with huge resources could not promote education, yet answers the giant of Africa.
On the other hand, a student studying Animal Science at Imo State University, Master Chidi Patrick said as a result of the lingering strikes, he has secured good means of generating income and does not wish the strike to be called off soon, as he is already tired of Nigerian education.
Many other students in various universities said the strike is making some youths lose faith in education and consequently take to negative vices that are compromising their future.
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