ASUU Strike: NANS threatens to shut airports September 19

*The National Association of Nigerian Students hints the body plans to disrupt international travels in the country from Monday, September 19, in protest against the continued strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities

Isola Moses ConsumerConnect |

Against the backdrop of the continued strike by lecturers of the Federal Universities, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said that it will shut down airports across the West African country effective from Monday, September 19, 2022.

It was learnt Mr. Ojo Olumide, Chairman of NANS National Task Force on ‘End ASUU Strike Now’ stated this while speaking in Akure, Ondo State capital.

Olumide said the students were already tired of pleading with both parties over the need to end the strike.

The students said they would ground flights operations at the  airports over the 7-month-old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

He also said: Olumide said, “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.”

Recall the ASUU strike, which began February this year, has negatively impacted the  young population, who have been rendered idle over the several months  in various ways, according to reports.

Our grouse and demands, by NANS

Olumide further stated: “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 call on students to rise and join us as we take our destinies into our hands. Our demands remain consistently clear and simple.”

The student leader said: “We call on ASUU leadership for a meeting as soon as possible to discuss solidarity actions and plan for the next phase of the struggles. “Nigerian students are not subjected to security agencies, and we haven’t seen any step from them to avert ASUU strike”

Amid several protests, the students have criticised the Federal Government’s ‘No work no pay’ policy, as they noted that it is unacceptable to them.

Recently, they also blocked the ever busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in protest their lecturers’ lingering industrial action, causing much gridlock as several commuters were stranded for hours, according to report.

The Chairman of NANS National Task Force also said the 4-day shutdown of busy highways and expressways in Nigeria had been a success.

He disclosed the Association’s plans to disrupt international travels from September 19 in order for “the bourgeois and the government to feel the pains that had subjected students to in the past seven months.”

He added: ‘’Being on the road for the past four days and had garnered a lot of solidarity, grounding the airport is for us to get solidarity, and we will keep on grounding the local and international airports and they know the effect of us grounding the airport, the only thing we request for them is to open our campuses back.

“They should give enough budgetary allocation we are not asking for 26 percent we are asking for 22 percent.

“We pass a vote of no confidence on both Ministers of Labour and Education.

“We call on the Buhari-government to pay all outstanding arrears and salaries of the lecturers.”

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