The Senate of the University of Benin has shut down academic activities at the institution following Wednesday’s protests.
Disclosing this in a statement on Thursday, the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Benedicta Ehanire, said the shutdown does not affect the non-academic staff.
The university also ordered students to vacate their hostels immediately.
UNIBEN students took to the streets on Wednesday, blocking the busy Benin-Ore Highway to protest weeks of power outages on their campus.
The prolonged power cut has severely impacted their preparation for the upcoming first-semester examinations which are just two weeks away.
The students are asking for a 24-hour electricity supply in the university, an agitation the management has tagged as unrealistic.