Strike: Students Give ASUU, Federal Government 7 Days To Resolve Dispute

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resoluteness their ongoing disputes and forestall different onslaught enactment that could disrupt the nation’s world calendar.

NANS President, Olushola Oladoja, stated this connected Wednesday successful a property statement.

The students’ assemblage expressed interest implicit the increasing hostility betwixt the authorities and ASUU, informing that immoderate disruption to the world calendar would beryllium unacceptable to Nigerian students.

Oladoja noted that the acquisition assemblage had enjoyed 2 uninterrupted world years nether President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Administration, a feat not recorded since the instrumentality to ideology successful 1999.

He, however, said the caller menace of concern enactment by ASUU was jeopardising the progress.

“It is, therefore, successful this tone that NANS appeals to some ASUU and the Federal Government’s dialog squad to find a workable and lasting solution wrong the adjacent 7 days.

“Nigerian students, galore of whom are present studying done acquisition loans, cannot spend to person their world calendar disrupted oregon their duration connected field extended again,” Oladoja said.

The NANS president further commended President Tinubu’s acquisition reforms, listing initiatives specified arsenic the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, removal of tertiary unit unions from IPPIS, reversal of the 40% IGR remittance policy, and peculiar TETFund interventions arsenic examples of the administration’s committedness to acquisition and pupil welfare.

Despite these gains, Oladoja lamented that mediocre connection and delays successful implementing agreements with ASUU had created unnecessary tension.

“However, the caller menace of concern enactment by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has go a root of interest to Nigerian students nationwide. It is regrettable that contempt the immense advancement recorded, this strike, a effect of miscommunication and mediocre situation absorption with timely implementation of the resolutions earlier reached with ASUU, is thereby creating avoidable hostility that present threatens the bid and advancement of the acquisition sector,” helium said.

Oladoja revealed that NANS’ autarkic findings showed that a gathering earlier convened by the national authorities to code ASUU’s grievances was not attended by the national owed to procedural disagreements.

“We person secured assurances from some parties that they are acceptable to be the gathering erstwhile it is decently reconvened. NANS, therefore, calls connected the authorities to instantly reconvene the gathering to adjacent this connection gap,” helium stated.

He further appealed to Tinubu to personally intervene, informing that nonaccomplishment to enactment swiftly could erode the goodwill and stableness achieved successful the education sector.