The President, National Association of Nigerian Students,
Sunday Ashefon, on Thursday, described strike actions in the tertiary education
sector in Nigeria as a challenge that administrations of the student body will
not be able to resolve.
Ashefon disclosed this during the 40th anniversary of NANS
which was held at the National Universities Commission in Abuja.
He said, “Perhaps the tertiary education sector in Nigeria
is faced with one of the strongest tests in our history in the last few years.
We have witnessed the total collapse of the sector as a result of the incessant
strike.
“This challenge alone is bigger than what any NANS
administration could resolve. However, our nation’s education system is on the
brink and the entire nation must rise to the rescue. Where we go from here as a
nation is dependent on how we collectively gather the crackers of the
collapsing education system and rebuild it together as a nation.
“Nigeria does not
belong here, our tertiary education system does not belong here and this is
already taking its tore on the nation’s economy, security, and faith of the
young people in the nation and its education system. We all must rise to the
rescue.
“As we celebrate today, let us remember that we are only
gathered here because education is part of our story and life, we must
therefore do all it takes to ensure this part of our national life does not
become a story of the past”.
NANS is the umbrella body of all Nigerian students of
tertiary institutions in Nigeria and the diaspora.
The body has come under fire by stakeholders who have
accused it of not pressuring the Federal Government and the Academic Staff
Union of Universities to find lasting solutions to incessant strikes in
Nigerian universities.
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