Nigerian students will stay at home longer than expected as the meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Presidency, Thursday, ended in a stalemate. This has raised fears that the continuous staying at home of students would continue to fuel and drive the #EndSARS/#EndSWAT project.
The government had insisted that the lecturers should embrace a new payment platform for their salaries, which the lecturers refused to be part of. Recently there have been reports of scandals involving misappropriation of funds within the management of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), the platform in question, with many wondering why lecturers must be subjected to such platform.