Half Salaries: Students Plead With ASUU To Shelve Fresh Strike Till After Exams

Students of Federal University Lokoja (FUL) have appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) not to resume its strike until after the ongoing second-semester exams.

The appeal is coming as the leadership of ASUU is deliberating on the Federal Government’s alleged failure to pay its members’ salaries after resuming work on October 14 from its eight months strike.

Students who were interviewed at the school premises said pleaded with ASUU to allow their exams to hold.

One of the students, Joy Abuh, said "We have just settled down after the strike suspension and are seriously preparing for our second-semester exams starting next Monday.

“It will be disastrous for us in FUL if the exams will not be held 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 from the Department of Education, Adeiza Ibrahim, 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.