Strike: NANS Convenes Emergency Meeting, Seeks Constructive Engagement

As the Federal Government plans to meet with ASUU on the ongoing indefinite strike, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) is calling on all parties to engage in constructive engagement in order to resolve the lingering issues that led to the strike.

The students association had given the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to resolve the issues to enable students return to school, failure at which it will lead to a total shutdown of activities across the country by the students.

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The students’ body decried the incessant and prolong strike as one of the factors responsible for the fallen standard of education in the country as well the attendant hardship to students, parents and guardians.

According to the President of NANS, Comrade Chinonso Obasi, incessant strikes and stoppages of academic activities as a result of lack of agreements or lack of adherence and implementation of duly executed memorandum of agreements between the Federal Government and ASUU does not reflect and demonstrate commitment to the sustainable development of the nation’s education sector and the development of the nation’s human capital development.

Obasi stated that though the association had called for an emergency Senate meeting to deliberate on the strike and other issues of critical national importance to take a position on the way forward before the Federal Government’s call for a meeting with ASUU, the association will await the outcome of meeting to determine the next line of action.

The association calls on the parties to demonstrate sensitivity and a great sense of patriotism in resolving the issues as the earliest convenience to avert unfortunate developments associated with the idleness of young people.

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