The new President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Sunday Asefon, has threatened that all private universities in the country would be shut down if the students’ body’s intervention in the nine-month strike embarked on by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities does not yield fruits, The PUNCH is reporting.
The NANS president spokes on Wednesday on a PUNCH Online interview programme, The Roundtable.
He said also on the programme that NANS would engage the Federal Government representatives and ASUU leaders to find a lasting solution to resolve the stalemate in negotiations between the two arms.
He said, “In the history of ASUU strike, this is the longest ASUU strike so far, going to nine months now.
“My administration frowns at it.
“We will be meeting with the representatives of the Federal Government and that of ASUU to see how the two can shift grounds so that our students can go back to the classroom.
“There must be a lasting solution.
“ASUU must stop this strike and Federal Government must listen to ASUU.
“The two should synergise, they should pity the common students who have been at home.
“If you are talking about money, the Federal Government will still release the money at the end of the day.
“But it is the students that are at the receiving end of this long ASUU strike.
“Before we mobilise our students to the streets to engage in a confrontation with the government, we believe ASUU and FG should sit and resolve the whole issue.
“That is our interest.
