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From Fred Ezeh, Abuja
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened to occupy the Ministry of Education and resume street protests across the country over the prolonged strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Newly elected president of the student’s union, Umar Farouk, at a press conference in Abuja, yesterday, said students’ patience have been over stretched beyond what they could bear and that have resolved to liberate themselves from the industrial action by ASUU.
Farouk urged the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, and other stakeholders to take steps to end the protracted nationwide strike by ASUU in seven days or the students would take to the streets with unfriendly actions.
“Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU,has been on strike for almost eight months, the academic calendar cannot be used as a parameter for years of studies anymore as students keep suffering from the long term effect of the strike. The Nigerian Student’s patience has be stretched beyond its elastic limit and have resolved to liberate themselves from the recurring effect of the industrial action by ASUU,” he said.
Farouk said all stakeholders in the education sector should be engaged in ensuring the sector is given the desired attention and that there was an increment of budgetary allocation to the Ministry of Education to meet up with UNESCO recommendation.
He renewed the commitment of NANS to the genuine emancipation of Nigerian students, soliciting their support and cooperation to ensure that the new executive achieved the desired goals within the shortest time.
“We shall not waste time in ensuring that our agenda is focused on ensuring students returns back to school within the shortest possible period state of the nation,” he said
