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How ASUU strike affects students?

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Tafida Sabo Akilu

<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"d1pgicHQ" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Tafida Sabo Akilu&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"jT5bAqgi" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>I have decided to write an article on the ongoing strike engaged by ASUU on 14&comma; February 2022 because i have been interviewed by two different channels on the same issue ie ASUU strike&period; I was once called by BBC london via phone and last week by panorama white-blood multimedia via verbal&period; Both the stations interviewed me on how does ASUU strike affects student&period; These interviews captured my mind to write this article and i hope it will reach the targets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Academic staff union of universities &lpar;ASUU&rpar; was established in 1978 with multiple aims and objectives that include regulation of relations between academic staff and employers&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;encouragement of the participation of its members in the affairs of the university system and of the nation&comma; protection and advancement of the socio-economic and cultural interest of the nation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;01&sol;13x13-group-founders-members-and-the-motives-behind-the-movement&sol;">13×13 Group&comma; Founders&comma; Members and the Motives Behind the Movement<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"tLqzoLba" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The aforementioned association has been adhering to one measure whenever it has issues with the federal government of Nigeria&comma; ie strike&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It has been gathered that&comma; ASUU is on it&&num;8217&semi;s sixteen strike since the resumption of democracy in 1999&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s exactly Twenty three &lpar;23&rpar; years now and within these years&comma; ASUU had embarked on industrial action for about four years&comma; a duration that is sufficiently enough to complete a whole four years degree programs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The above point substantiated that&comma; ASUU strike elongate graduation years of students&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s extremely difficult for undergraduates at the Nigerian public versities under ASUU to graduate within the right time&period; But due to the ASUU approach that is usually bring about the semblance of reviewing of academic calendars&period; This of course stonewall students in campuses beyond the graduation period&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; rush of academic calendars is also among the effect of this ongoing strike on student&period; Whenever strike is called off&comma; the campus management rush students to quickly cover the outstanding activities of the semester&period; Thus&comma; affected the students chance to learn affectively&period; It also make students stressful because they have to prepare for both examination and continus assessment simultaneously&period; This phenomenon affect students outcomes at last&period; For example&comma; first class student may transcend to second class&comma; second class to third class&comma; third class may suffer carry overs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; apart from the academic impacts of the strike on students&period; It also affects student socially&period; Most of the students feel bored because of strike&period; Such boredom anf idleness at home may predispose them into negative health condition that perhaps include anxiety&comma; depression and bipolar<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lack of enthusiasm in education by the students is another effect of ASUU industrial action on students&period; The strike approach upload constantly by ASUU have made many students to become unenthusiastic ie &comma; totally disinterested in education and resorted them to look for job opportunities to earn living&period; This of course make education less interesting and also puts student in a tight corner when campuses resume&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More so&comma; it often affect students economically&comma; one of the impact here is waste of accomodation rent for some students that stay off-campus&period; Many students rented apartments outside campus and their money is currently burning in vain because they can&&num;8217&semi;t stay while versities are on strike&period; If the strike continues&comma; they will end of having to repay whenever school resumes&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s a total waste&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lastly&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m calling on ASUU-FG to take these effects into consideration and resolve the issues so that campuses will be resumed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Conclusively&comma; ASUU is a pressure group that encompasses lecturers from different public versities across Nigeria&period; The Union had been adhering to single measure since it&&num;8217&semi;s inception in 1978 and this measure is unfavorable to Nigerian student academically&comma; socially and economically&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Written by Tafida sabo Akilu&comma; student at Yusuf Maitama Sule university kano&comma; faculty of humanities&comma; department of history and international studies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; 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