NANS blows hot over prolonged ASUU strike

The new president of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Sunday Asefon, has vowed to shut down all private universities in the country should the nine-month strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, continue.

The NANS president said this while speaking with newsmen.

Asefon lamented that the ongoing strike is the longest industrial action embarked on by the university lecturers.

He said NANS would engage the federal government representatives and ASUU leaders to find a lasting solution to resolve the stalemate in negotiations between the two arms.

The NANS president said after consultation with the two parties and should the strike not be called off as soon as possible, NANs would move in and shut down all tertiary institutions in the country.