The joint leadership of student unions across Nigerian tertiary institutions has threatened to embark on a nationwide protest on February 4 over what they described as the deplorable state of federal roads across the country.
The unions—National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS), National Association of Nigerian Colleges of Education Students (NANCES), and the National Association of University Students (NAUS)—said the worsening condition of federal highways has turned them into “corridors of preventable and avoidable death.”
In a joint statement issued on Sunday, the student bodies lamented that the poor state of the roads continues to claim the lives of students, workers, traders, families, and transporters on a daily basis, warning that sustained government inaction has left them with no option but mass protest.
The unions said the planned demonstrations would cut across the country unless urgent steps are taken to address the situation.
