A final year students of Medicine and Surgery, Usmanu Danfodi University, Sokoto (UDUS), Usman Abubakar-Rimi, has turned to street food vendor due to the prolonged industrial action by University lecturers.
In an interview with newsmen on Friday in Sokoto, Abubakar-Rimi said he conceived the initiative in order to engage in productive living as the strike forced students to become redundant.
Abubakar-Rimi, who owned a food outlet and Indomie joint in the Diplomat area in Sokoto metropolis explained that the ongoing extended strike embarked by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) gave him the full opportunity.
He explained that he ventured into full-scale food selling in the last two months and described the business as lucrative.
He explained that he owned another shop on Fodio road also in the Sokoto metropolis where he sells men and women’s clothing, caps, student bags, and shoes.
He advised students to utilise their free times to engage in businesses, stressing that the present online services provided a lot of opportunities to leverage on.
The student called on President Muhammadu Buhari to find a lasting solution to impending strikes in the interest of youths and the country’s progress.
He further appealed to the lecturers to consider the students’ plights and resolve the issue with some offers by the Federal Government as the effects of strikes bite harded on all categories of Nigerians.
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