The
President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Usman Umar
Barambu, has announced the suspension of the union’s planned protests following
the ruling of the National Industrial Court which ordered that the seven-month
strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) suspended.
This comes barely 10 hours after a
statement by the NANS PRO, Giwa Temitope, said the court cannot force the lecturers to return to class.
In a statement to its members,
however, the NANS President thanked them for their resilience and said that
since the court has directed that the strike be called off, their protest
actions are called off.
He also urged the Federal Government
to fulfill its part of the negotiations by satisfying ASUU’s demands.
He appealed to ASUU to see the court
order as a way to yield positive results at the negotiation table.
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