NANS THREATEN TO SHUT DOWN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IF ASUU DOES NOT CALL OFF STRIKE
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened to shutdown private universities in the country if the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) does not call off its lingering industrial strike action.
For about nine months, the union and the Federal Government has been at loggerheads over non-payment of Earned Allowance, welfare of lecturers, among others, forcing students to sit at home.
NANS President, Sunday Asefon, while speaking with Punch Newspaper on Wednesday lamented the effect of the strike on students and threatened that the students association would shut down private universities if an agreement is not reached.
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“I was so baffled during my press conference. My position is that we are to engage the representatives of the federal government and leadership of ASUU to find a lasting solution to the strike.
“This is the longest strike in the history of ASUU strike. My administration, we frown at it. We’ll be meeting with them to see how the two of them can shift ground so that we can go back to school.
“ASUU must stop this strike. Federal government must listen to ASUU. The two of them must synergise. When two elephants fight, the grass that will be the one to suffer it.
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“If they fail, we are going to shutdown all private institutions in this country,” the NANS President said.
On Tuesday, ASUU announced that it has postponed its meeting with the Federal Government till further notice ruining hopes of Nigerians expecting the strike to be suspended.
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