Nigeria: Thugs Disrupt Nasarawa Students' Protest Against Unpaid Scholarship

14 November 2012

Lafia — Gangs of thugs, today, violently disrupted protests by Nasarawa State students of tertiary institutions who poured into streets to register their anger against the state government's failure to pay their scholarship.

The students, who were led by officials of Nasarawa State Students' Association (NASSA), and zonal leaders of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), had earlier in the morning gathered at the Nasarawa State Polytechnic, in Lafia, where they commenced the protest that was designed to take them through major roads including Jos Road, and Shendam Road, to terminate at the gates of Government House.

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