Students Block Airport Road In Lagos To Protest The Ongoing ASUU Strike

Students on Monday morning blocked access roads to the Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos, in protest of the seven-month industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Due to the chaos and gridlock caused by the situation, it is at risk of becoming a national emergency as the vehicular movement in and out of the airport stalled.

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Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command said the police officers have been deployed to the scene.

“Our men are there,” he said in a telephone chat on Monday morning.

In a video sighted by Znewsgh.com on Instagram, Police officers were seen patrolling at the scene of a demonstration in Lagos state.

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“They are here to protect us. Nobody has been harassed but we are not relenting. No retreat, no surrender,” he said.

According to an earlier report, NANS members threatened to ground activities at the local and international airports across the country effective today as part of efforts to drive home their demand that the ASUU strike is called off.

The protesting students had last week blocked the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the Ibadan-Ife Road.

In other news, on Wednesday, the second day of airstrikes in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region resulted in the de@th of ten people and at least 14 more being injured.

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According to emergency workers, about five people passed away during the twin drone strikes in the residential Dagim Amsal neighbourhood of Mekelle.

The Director of Ayder Referral Hospital, Kibrom Gebreselassie confirmed the de@th of five victims who died on the way to the hospital.

He added that some of the victims are in urgent need of major surgery, however, the hospital has no intensive care unit since it has been cut off from outside help.

“I don’t know what to do,” Kibrom said. “Am I to lose every salvageable victim because there is no oxygen or medicine?”