[color=red] STUDENTS PROTEST IN YENAGOA, BAYELSA- THE OIL RICH NIGER DELTA STATE [/color]
[b]Niger Delta University students protesting over 3 Months old strike by the University ASUU due to non payment of their salaries since January (7 months). The Govt. Of Bayelsa state is insisting that there is no money to pay the lecturers due to the poor federal allocations and therefore the only state University should source for other means of funding. Our agent gathered that the protest has been peaceful as the students took to the street routine to government house and be properly Address by the Governor HONOURABLE HENRY SERIAKE DICKSON. Speaking to some parents along the Melfold Okilo way, expresses displeasure over the issue and call on every well meaning Bayelsan and Nigeria to intervene on the issue. The state which is homogenously an Ijaw state is the host of the University which has admission capacity of about 5000 thousand students cut across the whole country with about 12 Faculties including Law and Medicine, also running other programmes. The University which is located in Wilberforce Island(Amassoma) is just a stone throw from the Nigeria LNG which redeemed the Nigeria government with the first bail out fund to states but the University is yet to feel the impact of the Multinational company. Some of the students who spoke to our agent in anonymity said they are fed up of the government both federal, state and Multinationals that despite their huge resources and feeding the Nigeria nation has no access to Educational, Medical facilities and other basic amenities. Efforts to reach the University Vice Chancellor Prof. Humphrey Ogoni and the state commissional for Education on their stake in the protest prove abortive however a Lecturer of the University who also spoke on anonymity said the Government should do the needful and return the students back to school. [/b]
