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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