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For the 12th edition of its annual essay competition among secondary school students in Nigeria, the United Bank for Africa Foundation asked participants to write on the topic: “ASUU strike has often cost Nigerian students time. Advise governments on how they can reach an agreement with ASUU to improve tertiary education in the nation.”

But in its report presented on Monday during the grand finale of the competition at the headquarters of the financial institution in Lagos, the four-member panel of judges said a good number of scripts out of about 5,000 received, lamented the strike by the lecturers.

The report was read on behalf of the panel by a Professor of English Literature at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), Asabe Kabir. Other members include Emmanuel Omobowale, Ini Uko and Samuel Onuigbo, all professors from various universities.

According to Mrs Asabe, the judges were excited about the topic, saying they had thought its liberality ought to “have given the students independent reasoning to express new ideas broadmindedly with unadulterated points, devoid of much plagiarism as have been observed in previous years, especially from those who would soon join the university system.”

However, the panel said it was unfortunate that many of the candidates did not seem to understand the topic or what was expected from them because: “Some wrote in the letter form instead of the essay form; many of them used bullets to present their ideas in segments; many of them concentrated on the ASUU strike that was subsisting at that time, even though the topic was conceptual and not actual; some were very passionate about the strike and concentrated more on the history of ASUU, the number of strikes in Nigeria, the roles of successive governments in mitigating ASUU strikes.”

The report added: “Others went ahead to vituperate the members of ASUU and condemn them for often interrupting the education of Nigerian youth, among many other things rather than suggesting viable and practical ways of addressing the issue at hand.”

:Dthey will meet those they insulted when they reach university.

Shege is waiting for them dem go see am

He no get respect

Timely vituperations. They must stop taking out their displeasure on students. It is high time they found another way of pressing their demands! You can't use a wicked method to achieve good ideals.

I don't want to know whether asun or Fg is at fault students should resume fully