On Tuesday, some students urged the Federal Government to cooperate with the Academic Staff Union of Universities' (ASUU) demands in light of the four-week extension.
They said that if their demands were met, the lecturers' continuing strike would end, according to news reporters in Abuja.
They claimed that the ongoing strike was improper for the education industry and that it has halted many students' academic development and performance.
A student named Victory Adebowale described the walkout's prolongation as discouraging. She claimed that the strike has badly impacted Nigerian students and lasted much too long.
He added that the extension would further expose students to despair and that the Federal Government and ASUU have had enough conversations over the past five months.
Adebolwale said that embarking on strike tended to keep students in school for more than the supposed estimated period of the academic session.
“Our house rent expires during the strike and most landlords do not care, some students might lose interest in academic activities following the “Yahoo Yahoo’’ trend which is now rampant in society.
“They might at the end of the day, see schooling as a waste of time and that schooling is a scam,” he said.
Another student, Ruth Essanse, claimed that because the strike fell during her industrial attachment programme, she wasn't significantly impacted.
According to her, the union decided to extend the strike so that the government and ASUU would have ample time to consider potential solutions to the strike's problems.
Essanse asserted that the current strike was caused by a lack of focus on the universities and encouraged the Federal Government to ratify the 2009 renegotiated agreement, which was designed to improve university teaching and learning outcomes.
Student Mr. James Mutudi claimed that the purpose of extending the strike was to alert key players and the Federal Government to the needs of ASUU.
She said the industrial action had also affected both students and lecturers, adding that many lecturers had resolved into doing menial jobs to provide for their families.
“I feel so sad spending an extra one month after the five months strike. The Government has failed us, they don’t care about our future and our educational sector,” he said.
In order to avoid being idle during the strike, Mutudi suggested his fellow students to use the time to learn new skills or start a business. He also mentioned that he was now doing bricklaying.
Another student, Hope Opomu, made the observation that the extension was necessary because the Federal Government was steadfastly pursuing ASUU's requests.
“I won’t blame ASUU for extending the ongoing strike by four weeks if their demands were not meant,” she said.
The strike was prolonged, Opomu continued, in order to give the government more time to pay salaries and address other ASUU demands, but the extension was detrimental to students' futures.
She continued by saying that because students were unable to graduate at the anticipated time, the strike had a significant negative impact on academic activities.
Opomu counselled students to remain strong and work together to demonstrate and make sure that the Federal Government complied with ASUU's demands.