Education
Students abandon lectures in search of money in bank ATMs, starve for hours
Students of universities and other higher schools in Nigeria have abandoned lectures for days in search of Naira notes in banks and PoS terminals.
A student of Architecture at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC), abandoned lectures for two days to withdraw N5,000 from an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in Enugu State.
The student was cited to have said on Friday: “I have missed lectures for two days just to get N5,000 to feed and buy some toiletries as most shops only accept cash.”
The student was lamenting the hardships himself and other students in tertiary institutions in Enugu State had been going through since the cash crunch induced by CBN’s cashless policy began.
The student is just a poster boy of hundreds of thousands of students in tertiary institutions as they are all having the same experience.
“We lack cash to buy food following the unavailability of the new naira notes,’’ he said.
Students were said to be crowded at ATM galleries in banks located in the schools while lectures were on-going.
Some of the students decried that they have been at banks located inside UNEC as early as 6.00a.m. waiting to withdraw N5,000 which is the maximum amount dispensed by the banks.
NAN
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