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Nigeria lecturers go on strike, drawing rebuke from student leaders

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University of Nigeria, Nnsuka. Forty-three federal and 48 state universities in Nigeria have been shut following another strike by lecturers to force the government to fully implement a 2009 agreement on their welfare. PHOTO | MOHAMMED MOMOH | NATION MEDIA GROUP



By  Mohammed Momoh

Contributor based in Abuja, Nigeria

Nation Media Group

Abuja

Forty-three federal and 48 state universities in Nigeria have been shut following another strike by lecturers to force the government to fully implement a 2009 agreement on their welfare and provide amenities.

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