Some undergraduates in Kaduna have ventured into various
vocations to keep them occupied as the strike by the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) persists, the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Some of them who spoke with NAN on Friday in Kaduna said that
they had to find something to do, to keep their minds occupied
and avoid trouble.
Grace Ocholi, a 300-level student of English at Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria, said she secured a temporary job as a fuel
pump attendant at a petrol station in Sabon-Tasha area of the
city to enable her earn some money until the end of the strike.
"Everyone in my house go out every morning to work, and my
younger sisters go to school while I stay home and sleep awaiting
for their return.
"I am not okay with staying idle so I decided to engage in
something useful," Grace said.
Seun Ali, an HND Computer Science student of Kaduna Polytechnic
told NAN that he worked at my uncle's workshop to earn.
some money instead of staying idle at home.
Another student, Henry Samuel of Mass Communication
Department, Ahmadu Bello University, said he was assisting his
father in selling tiles before he was admitted to the university.
Samuel said he had to continue manning the business until the end
of the lecturers' strike.
"So instead of wasting time waiting for the prolonged strike to
end, I returned to continue from where I stopped," he said.
The students advised their colleagues to engage in something
meaningful while the strike lasted, so as not to fall into the
temptation of going into crime due to idleness.
NAN recalls that ASUU had been on strike since June over the
non-implementation of a 2009 agreement it entered with the
Federal Government on the funding of public universities.