LAUTECH closure: Students plan mass protest January 9

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STUDENTS across the country, under the umbrella of Alliance of Nigerian Students against Neo-Liberal Attacks (ANSA), have set aside January 9 to protest the continued industrial impasse, which has kept Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) closed for seven months.

A statement issued by the group and signed by its Acting General Secretary, Juwon Sanyaolu, said the “mother of all protests” against the governments of Oyo and Osun states (proprietors of the school) would be held simultaneously in both Ibadan and Oshogbo, the capitals.

According to Sanyaolu, there were indications that both governments were considering increasing students’ fees as a way of resolving the prolonged workers’ strike, and vowed that the group would mobilise all students’ groups and activists in the country to resist the implementation of any such plans.

The statement read in part:…

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