National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, plans to hold a
nation-wide protest in a bid to force the Federal Government and the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the protracted strike
of university lecturers. Responding to allegations that the students’ body was not bothered by
the 60-day-old strike, NANS President, Yinka Gbadebo, said the union
had been employing other matured approaches to appeal to both the
government and ASUU.
“NANS is not relaxed but we have decided to take approaches that
don’t require us to make noise. We have been meeting with executive
members of ASUU, the Nigerian Universities Commission, Minister of
Education and the FG. “We have also written to meet with the universities NEEDS
Implementation Committee chairman and Governor of Benue State, Mr.
Gabriel Suswan. If we don’t receive any response by the end of the week,
we would issue an ultimatum and take it up from there.
“I have been consulting with all SUG leaders in the affected schools
so that we would speak with one voice. Going to the streets would be our
last option but we would do so to protest how long this strike has
lingered,” Gbadebo said.
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