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Strike deadlock shuts Nigerian universities for months

FILE - Nigeria Labour union protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on the street in Lagos, Nigeria, on July 26, 2022. A strike declared by lecturers in Nigerian public universities has now clocked six months, hurting an estimated 2.5 million students who do not have other means of learning. Such strikes are common in this West African nation with more than 100 public universities. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File) People walk past the Faculty of law department of the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Wednesday Aug. 17, 2022. A strike declared by lecturers in Nigerian public universities has now clocked six months, hurting an estimated 2.5 million students who do not have other means of learning. Such strikes are common in this West African nation with more than 100 public universities. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) FILE - Nigeria Labour union protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on the street in Lagos, Nigeria, on July 26, 2022. A strike declared by lecturers in Nigerian public universities has now clocked six months, hurting an estimated 2.5 million students who do not have other means of learning. Such strikes are common in this West African nation with more than 100 public universities. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File) FILE - Nigeria Labour union protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on the street in Lagos, Nigeria, on July 26, 2022. A strike declared by lecturers in Nigerian public universities has now clocked six months, hurting an estimated 2.5 million students who do not have other means of learning. Such strikes are common in this West African nation with more than 100 public universities. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File) People sits outside the gate of the University of Abuja, in Abuja Nigeria, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. A strike declared by lecturers in Nigerian public universities has now clocked six months, hurting an estimated 2.5 million students who do not have other means of learning. Such strikes are common in this West African nation with more than 100 public universities. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu) Cars drive past the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Wednesday Aug. 17, 2022. A strike declared by lecturers in Nigerian public universities has now clocked six months, hurting an estimated 2.5 million students who do not have other means of learning. Such strikes are common in this West African nation with more than 100 public universities. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) Amidat Ahmed, a 22-year-old economics student at University of Abuja, learns how to make shoes following a university strike in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday Aug. 10, 2022. Ahmed said the strike has prevented her from getting clearance that would see her wrap up her undergraduate studies in the school because lectures are not available. She is now considering going abroad for a fresh undergraduate degree program. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu) Nigeria Labour union protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on the street in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. A strike declared by lecturers in Nigerian public universities has now clocked six months, hurting an estimated 2.5 million students who do not have other means of learning. Such strikes are common in this West African nation with more than 100 public universities. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) Adenekan Ayomide, 27, an undergraduate student turned a taxi driver following nationwide university strike, poses for a photograph inside his taxi in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. “Nobody is talking about school again,” said Ayomide, who said he is now working more than one job and the budget he had for getting through university now looks unrealistic. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu)