Students are pleading with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the government to stop strikes at universities. Abba Ali kyari, a student said that children of the poor are the victims of every bad case in the country. He said that most lecturers are from a poor background, not rich, yet they are always victimizing their brothers and sisters who will help them one way or the other in the future.

He said that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) should pity them and call off the strike so that they can continue with their studies and graduate on time. “Children of most of these lecturers and the government officials who are responsible for our country’s education are studying abroad that is why they don’t care about the suspension of the strike or not. We are the victims.” He mentioned. ASUU has been on strike for 8 months now.

He said that the ongoing strike has brought about the backwardness of education in Nigeria. “Since the beginning of the nascent democracy in 1999 in Nigeria, there was a year without ASUU embarking on strike.”He went on to say that a four-year course has become a five year or six because of strikes. Suppose universities are not embarking on strikes because it is harmful to the poor, he said.

He continued to say lecturers can’t get all of their desires and therefore since they have been given some amount of money that may help them fix and solve some of the problems they are facing, they should please be patient and call off the strike so that they can resume school and make progress in their academic pursuit.

Yagana Mamman Shettima, a university student mentioned that the strike is unbearable and she is tired of being restive at home. “The government should pity us and stop jeoparding our future as time passes by so unbelievably quickly in this generation. “We don’t want this strike to continue because it is a threat to us as ladies.”