By Joseph Erunke, Abuja
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has warned state governors whose universities are affected by the latest Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, ultimatum against allowing their failure to implement the 2025 agreement with the union to trigger another round of university strikes.
NANS, in a strongly worded statement on Tuesday, said students must not be made to pay the price for disputes between ASUU and governments, insisting that any further shutdown of universities would deepen the academic, psychological and economic hardship already suffered by millions of Nigerian students.
The students’ body spoke against the backdrop of ASUU’s decision to authorise 20 university branches to issue 14-day ultimatums over outstanding aspects of the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU agreement, with industrial action potentially looming after the expiration of the ultimatums.
The development has already resulted in industrial action at Nasarawa State University, Keffi, heightening fears of a fresh disruption of the university academic calendar.
