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Protesting Students Shut Down Nigerian Highway
By Peoples&Politics Students of the University of Benin on Wednesday took to the streets, 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. 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 to have expressed discontent after the Benin Disco reportedly made an…