Lagos airport protest

2022 - 9 - 20

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Strike: Sowore joins NANS' protest at Lagos airport (The Punch)

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has, Monday, joined Nigerian students in protest at the Murtala Muhammed ...

“Nigerian students delivered independence to Nigeria in 1960, after this, they hijacked it and started using it against us. Nigerian students delivered the democracy we have today in in 1999, but when they flog people, it is the same us that they flog,” Sowore said. Sowore, while at the protest, said it was important for the students to intensify their action saying, “this is your struggle.”

NANS Protest: Touts in brisk businesses at Lagos airport as ... (Premium Times)

Other road users, including students, workers, and particularly staffers of the airports, also suffered inconveniences as they struggled...

This is an international corridor and we need to secure the premises,” Mr Sunday said. “Nobody is happy that they are at home for months, however, we want them to free the road. He said: “We have been pleading with them and the command is making an effort. Speaking angrily, he said: “Even the spoon we use to eat here is substandard. The agitation is worth it but the hardship that it has caused is unimaginable. It was a hellish experience,” one of the travellers, who does not want to be named, said. My appeal to the government is that they should find a lasting solution to this issue. Good journalism costs a lot of money. He said for him to carry one bag the owner would pay N2,000, and “so for five bags, it is N10,000.” He said the protest was justified but that the political office holders whom it is meant to affect “don’t care.” Meanwhile, a pensioner who is also ill, Felix Achonu, was unable to get to the hospital as he was also caught up in the traffic. “The MMIA is a hub in the aviation industry in Nigeria and anything that happens here will affect the entire country because this is where about 60 per cent of the revenue of the aviation industry comes from.”

[Update] ASUU backs NANS protest as police flood Lagos airport (Vanguard)

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have backed the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on its demands before the federal ...

Whoever is travelling will know how to bypass them and enter the airport. We want an end to the strike,” he stated. All we want is for the government to answer us.

BREAKING: Nigerian Students Protest, Block Lagos Airport Road ... (SaharaReporters.com)

Students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), South West zone, on Monday blocked the road leading to the Murtala ...

The students who were blocked by security operatives from gaining access to the airport took over the road, preventing traffic flow both inward and outward from the facility.

Nigerian University Students Block Airport Road in Protest against ... (THISDAY Newspapers)

The students blocked vehicular movement from the tollgate, which is the road that links international and cargo terminals to the domestic terminal, thus ...

Hopefully, the protest will end by evening time when many international flights arrive at the airport and when hundreds of passengers would be coming to the airport to board their flights to overseas destinations. Already travellers, airport users and motorists using the Ajao Estate link road to the international airport were stranded as the students blocked all roads leading to the airport. Nigerian university students under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Monday lived up to their threat by carrying their protest against the lingering strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.

ASUU Strike: Gridlock As Protesting Students Block Lagos Airport ... (CHANNELS TELEVISION)

University students protesting the seven-month industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday morning blocked a section of the ...

[court adjourned the case to September 21, 2022.](https://www.channelstv.com/2022/09/19/just-in-court-fixes-wednesday-to-rule-on-fgs-suit-against-asuu/) Nobody has been harassed but we are not relenting. “They are here to protect us.

Students' protest paralyses activities at Lagos airport, causes flights ... (Nigerian Sketch)

Several flights have been rescheduled following the ongoing protest by Nigerian students at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. Students ...

Share your thoughts on the story Students’ protest paralyses activities at Lagos airport, causes flights reschedule with Both the domestic terminal one also known as the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) and the terminal two operated by Bi-Courtney Aviation Service Limited (BASL) of the Airport and the MMA were shut down by the students who prevented passengers from accessing the airport. Students’ protest paralyses activities at Lagos airport, causes flights reschedule

ASUU strike: Passengers miss flights as students protest at Lagos ... (Businessday.ng)

Students and youth under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) came out in their numbers on Monday, September 19...

I had to walk with my luggage in my head for almost one hour just to get to the airport because the students had blocked the roads from Ajao Estate to the airport, making it impossible for vehicles to move. “The international airport is an important area because both local and international people use the facilities. If students can’t learn in their classroom, then a disruption in air transport is justified,” he said. It is only when people are uncomfortable that the need for a solution arises,” she said. “I was at the airport on Monday by 7.30am for an 8.30am flight to Abuja but I was at a spot for over one hour; so I had to cancel my travel plans and turn back home. I would have come down from the vehicle and walked down to the airport but there was no safe place I could pack my car.

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