Students of the University of Benin took to the streets on Wednesday, blocking the ever-busy Benin-Ore Highway to protest weeks of power outages on the campus. The students, who have only two weeks until their first semester examinations, said the situation was severely affecting their preparation. READ ALSO: Ibadan, Kaduna discos raise electricity tariff for Band A customers The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the university was thrown into a blackout following the inability to reach an agreement with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) over a contentious electricity bill. The management of the institution was said toThe post UNIBEN students shut down Benin-Ore highway over power outage appeared first on Guardian Nigeria News.
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