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| Students protesting ASUU strike at Lagos Airport |
University students protesting the Academic Staff Union of Universities' seven-month strike blocked a section of the access road to Lagos' Murtala Muhammad International Airport on Monday morning.
Gridlock developed along the axis as vehicular movement into and out of the airport was halted.
Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, told Channels TV that police officers had been dispatched to the scene.
"Our men are there," he said over the phone Monday morning.
Giwa Temitope, the National Public Relations Officer of the National Association of Nigerian Students, confirmed to Channels Television that police officers are on the scene of the protest.
"They've come to protect us." Nobody has been harassed, but we will not back down. "There will be no retreat, no surrender," he declared.
It was previously reported that NANS members threatened to halt operations at local and international airports across the country beginning today in order to press their demand that the ASUU strike be called off.
Last week, protesting students shut down the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the Ibadan-Ife Road.
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