National Association of Nigerian
University Students has threatened to sue the Academic Staff Union of
Universities over what they described as incessant strikes in Nigerian
university system.
According to the students, the action is
aimed at determining whether at the point of entry into any university,
such a university is bound by the number of statuary years a student
will spend in the system depending on the course they are studying.
Addressing the press in Jos on Tuesday,
NANUS National President, Mr. John Offia, said the “National Executive
Council of the NANUS has resolved to initiate legal action against ASUU
and other appropriate authorities with a view to determining whether the
incessant strike do not constitute a beach of the terms and conditions
of the admission of students of Nigerian universities.”
The student body said it had unanimously
agreed to take up the matter on behalf of students in the next two
weeks, after notifying the authorities concerned.
It added that the action was not only to bring to an end to strikes by ASUU but also to stop strikes by lecturers.
While calling on ASUU to end the current
strike and allow the students to go back to classes, NANUS regretted
that Nigerian universities had been producing half-baked graduates,
because they were usually rushed on resumption through crash programmes.
The body said, “The distortion of
academic calendar is making duration programmes a mockery and peripheral
lectures on resumption is bringing about half-baked graduates and as
future leaders of this country, there will be no hope that Nigeria will
be better if this situation continues in tne administration of our
university system.”
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These students are illitrates. In fact their utterance proves dat they are not half-baked products, but raw materials in their crudest form. It's a shame that they don't even kno who's responsible and who shud be held responsible for their predicament. So they don't even know that ASUU embarks on strike bcos the FG refuses to honour the agreements reached with ASUU? Wot makes them think they can institute a case against ASUU for embarking on strike? NONSENSE!
ReplyDeleteYes NANS.. you are fighting a just cause! All these selfish lecturers under the guise of ASUU must stop these incessant strikes. Its a shame.
ReplyDeleteLecturers are lazy, pursuing other businesses instead of being faithful to their primary assignment.
ASUU should warn their member lecturers from extorting poor students from buying handouts!
Some people just open mouth to talk, what makes them selfish? compare a secondary school holder in the Senate that receives millions of naira every month. They are fighting for a reasonable course. Issue of handouts needs to addressed as well as commitment to work outside that ASUU strike should continue cos this government under GEJ are not been sincere at all.
ReplyDeleteStudents pls dont let this regime of GEJ use you against your lecturers, there in Abuja sharing money everyday while others are suffering. They are once like these lectures but now that they have access to money, they decides to ignore people. God will judge these politicians. Bamubamu niwon yo, won oman pe ebi npa omo eni kankan the so-called Jonathan and others.
ReplyDeletethe lecturers suppose to be just like doctors and government forces, it is very wrong for all the lectures to go on strike, the lecturers can demand their right while the university is open exchanging themselves some go and face the government and some remain in the school and so non, to shut down the universities it is just like we wasting our future generation time
ReplyDeleteStudents, use your God's given brain to know that ASSU is fighting a just course! See the conditions with which you are studying while some nonentities are busy squandering and looting the purse of your motherland! Do you want to be fools like them! Support your lecturers, sue the government not ASSU!
ReplyDeleteI don't blame u people u have graduated from one school,in one way or the other who is ASSU who is government go ahead and sue them is not a free education.ti e ba fa gburu,gburu a fa igbo for those that understand.join govt as second defender.
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