UNIBEN students block highway over power outage

Students of the University of Benin are staging a protest over a power outage that has been on for over three weeks and counting.

It was gathered that the university was thrown into darkness following its inability to reach an agreement with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company over perceived contentious electricity billing.

The institution’s management was said to have expressed dismay over the upward review of the institution’s monthly electricity bill from N80 million to N280 million.

The students, who could not continue to bear the resultant hardship from the outage, decided to stage a protest on Wednesday morning, carrying placards and chanting slogans as they blocked the Lagos-Benin Expressway.

All vehicles now have to continue their journeys only on the inbound route of the expressway.

The school’s main gate is on a total shutdown while the demonstration continues.