The National Association of Nigerian Students has scheduled its next protest for Ondo State on Friday.
NANS has been on a week-long protest since Tuesday, as it kept major highways grounded in reaction to the prolonged strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
Journalists reported that on Thursday, the students blocked a major road in Gbongan, Osun State, for hours, with motorists and other commuters stranded.
A statement issued Thursday by the Chairman, NANS National Task Force on #EndASUUStrikeNow, Ojo Raymond, read, “The national leadership of NANS, since the commencement of this struggle has declared that it is a “no retreat, no surrender” agitation. And, the implication of that, is that, what is being witnessed today is more like a preamble to the real struggle of Nigerian students to come whereby economic activities in the country would be grounded by the mass of Nigerian students.
“And, in living true to the threat of sustaining the struggle that we have begun is why we are here today in protest against the gross failure of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s administration to invest in the educational sector. It cannot be overemphasised that Nigerian students have been robbed of education, not even ‘quality’. We can only talk about quality when there is the presence of education. But, in this case, there is no education at all for the Nigerian students.”
