COOKING GAS SHORTAGE HITS UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES



Nigerian university students are facing a cooking crisis as a gas shortage grips the nation. With many relying on gas-powered stoves and cooking elements to prepare their daily meals, the scarcity has left many rushing for alternative cooking methods, such as, firewoods, dust-stoves and electric cookers even at constant power supply outages.
The shortage has deeply forced university food vendors to adopt and adapt on new services means, as some cafeterias struggle to cope with the lack of gas. Students are at the receiving end feeling the unbearable heat and finding it challenging to adapt to the new reality.
According to an anonymous source, students within the campus are having to get creatively diversified with their cooking though, not easy, but were still making do with what is available.

Despite the challenges, students are finding subtle ways to cope. Some are banding together to share cooking responsibilities that don't require gas including excessive time consumed compared to when using gas. 
However, as the shortage drags on, students are feeling the financial pinch and subsequent depletion in their pockets. Because, with alternative cooking methods, there come unaffordable additional expenses, and many are struggling to cope and make ends meet. The persistence shortage of cooking gas has unarguably also taken a toll on students' health, as some are resorting to less nutritious food options as improvise on the alternative as a result of long cooking and other accompany ripple effects.

Nevertheless, the gas shortage has sparked a new sense of resourcefulness among students, with many exploring new ways to cook and share meals.

As the situation remains a huge challenge, students are however eagerly awaits a quick return to normalcy through the interventions of the concerned government agency(ies) saddled with the gas supply management to ensuring the unhindered supply flow and availability to meeting the demand by the general masses.

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