Students Association Calls for Return of Negotiation on Lecturers Strike

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANs has issued an ultimatum to the Nigerian Government and the striking Lecturers of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU to return to negotiation table and re-open public universities across Nigeria .

The Students also announced their decision to stage mass protest against the eight months old strike at the Ministry of Education.

They said the labour crisis has brought untold hardship on the students and their parents.

The newly elected President of NANS, Comrade Umar Faruq-Lawal made these known in Abuja while addressing Journalists on the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

Academic Reform Struggle

Faruq-Lawal also disclosed that it would be introducing what it called Academic Reforms struggle in honour of one of it’s late officials.

He said this will generate discourse on educational development in Nigeria.

“The only thing I would say is that ASUU and the Nigerian Government should return to negotiation table and resolve all the issues amicably and reopen our campuses.

“It’s not the students that pays the salaries of the lecturers ,it’s the federal government so we don’t have capacity to advise government nor our lecturers,we can only insist that both of them must return to negotiation table”

The Senate President of NANS, said the Student leaders would hold a meeting to decide on the day to hold it protest.

According to him, “in the next 24hrs the President of NANS will meet with legitimately elected SUG president of all campuses and we will take decision on the date we will storm the Ministry of Education, we are not going with thugs but students with I.D cards”

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