The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has denied reports of planned protests on the ever busy Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos on Wednesday.
The association’s Vice President in charge of External Affairs, Babatunde Afis, told Nigeria Info that no protests were planned for the day.
The latest update comes 2 days after the student union blocked access roads to the Murtala Muhammed Airport, in a bid to get the federal government to meet the demands of striking university lecturers.
They also blocked accesses to major highways across the country, including the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway the previous week.
University lecturers have been on strike since the 14th of February, over inadequate infrastructure in the universities, funding gaps, and their own welfare.
This has meant that students of federal government-owned and some state-owned universities have not been in class for 7 months.
The fate of those who have taken JAMB exams is also not yet certain.
In spite of the dilemma, children of the upper and middle class have been graduating from and gaining admissions into foreign tertiary institutions.
Most of the parents who hold top government and political offices continue to flaunt the academic achievements of their kids on social media.
NANS earlier planned to protest at the Apapa Port Complex on Tuesday but shelved the plan for reasons yet to be made public.
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