The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has declared its intentions to stop the operations at all international airports in Nigeria.
This came as a reaction to the seven-month standoff between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
The national leadership of NANS had a meeting over the weekend in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, and criticized the manner the Federal Government was handling the issues of industrial strike as well as education in general.
The Students’ union body was of the claim that the four-day closure of highways and expressways was successful struggles, and this has motivated them to make the decision of stopping international transportation starting on September 19, 2022.
The students organization added that this is done to ensure the bourgeois and the government have a taste of the suffering that students had passed through for the past seven months.
Ojo Raymond Olumide, who’s the chairman of the NANS National Task Force on “End ASUU Strike Now”, during a press conference, said students were already tired of persuading both parties on the need to put an end to the strike.
“The President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration must settle all outstanding arrears and the lecturers’ salaries”, Olumide said, adding that the airports that would be occupied will remain closed until the strike is called off.
“We shall begin another round of protest next week by storming the airspaces on Monday, 19th September 2022 to #OccupyTheAirports. We want to let the world know about the pains and anguish students are going through.
“Nigerian students whose parents create the commonwealth cannot continue to be suffering at home alongside our lecturers while the few who gain from our sweats and blood have their kids abroad jollying and flexing.
“We will, by this statement, not beg again. We shall be mobilizing all students to shut down the country. No Education! No Movement!”
While condemning Babatunde Raji Fashola the Minister of Works, over his purported opinion on the manner students had continued to barricade federal roads, the largest students body in the country passed a vote of no confidence on both the ministers of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu and Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige.