The delegation of the students' association led by its President, Comrade Usman Umar Barambu and the Secretary-General, Comrade Usman Baba Kankia in a statement said they met with the ASUU leadership to chart a way forward on how best to see an end to the strike.
The leadership of the Nigerian students union, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Sunday met with the leadership of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the ongoing industrial action.
The delegation of the students' association led by its President, Comrade Usman Umar Barambu and the Secretary-General, Comrade Usman Baba Kankia in a statement said they met with the ASUU leadership to chart a way forward on how best to see an end to the strike.
According to the association, the meeting which lasted for over 6 hours had fruitful deliberations as ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke took the new leadership of NANS through the various agreements the union signed with the Nigerian Government and the terms of conditions laid before them to enable them to return to class.
Osodeke decried the government’s sheer negligence and failure to assuage or make serious efforts to end the seven-month strike. He said the tactics of the government to use hunger to force them to return to class has failed in its entirety.
Reacting to the agreements between the Nigerian government and ASUU, ASUU's demands, the NANS President, Barambu, condemned the docile attitudes of the Nigerian Government in preventing the strike and to have allowed it to be fettered for this long, thereby crippling academic activities across the country.
Barambu however appealed to ASUU to consider the terrible and pitiable state of the Nigerian students and their parents and shift ground, even though some of their demands remain germane and pivotal to the development of public institutions in the country.
The NANS President said, “For our students' interest and dream, they should consider suspending the strike while permanent solutions are being devised to this agreement signed.”
Meanwhile, he appreciated the ASUU boss for granting them an audience and promised to keep working together with the body to see that jointly, they will get the desired state-of-the-art facilities needed for standard learning and proper education as found in other climes.