Students under the auspices of the National Association of Nigeria Students, University of Uyo chapter, on Friday staged a peaceful demonstration, calling on the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Unions of Universities to resolve their differences and reopen the schools.

The protesters, who blocked the Ikpa Road of the Town Campus of the University as early as 9.30am, gave the Federal Government seven days to accede to their request.

The students in their numbers chanted solidarity songs and displayed placards of various descriptions threatening to shut down Aso Rock and the National Assembly if their request is not acceded to within seven days.

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Some of the inscriptions on the placards read, “We want ASUU strike resolved now”, “We are tired of staying at home,” “Our rent is wasting,” “We cannot wait anymore.”

Addressing the students, the Zone D, NANS Coordinator, Etinyene Offongekpe, called for an immediate end to the protracted strike by ASUU.

He said, “We call on the Federal Government to key into the agreement it signed in 2019 and also on ASUU to shift grounds. We have come to express to the world that we cannot take this anymore.

“We are under instructions from the NANS Secretariat to Shut down Abuja, seven days from now. We are mobilising to move to Abuja, we will shut the National Assembly and the Aso Rock.”