Students of tertiary institutions within the Southwest, Nigeria have threatened to embark on a nationwide protests, if both the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Federal Government fail to end the protracted strike in public universities in the next seven days ultimatum issued by the leadership of the Students Union Governments in the region.
Edu-Biznews recalled that the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) had on Wednesday issued similar threat to organise a nationwide protest, if the strike is not called off within 14 days.
The Student Leaders who issued the threat on Thursday at a news conference on the campus of the University of Ibadan included Wisdom Okoko (University of Ilorin), Olamide Olabiyi (Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Michael Awoyemi (Olabisi Onabanjo University) and Abiodun Oloyede (the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB).
Others are Olusegun Akeju (University of Ibadan) and Mayowa Opakunle (Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Oyo State.
Oloyede of FUNAAB speaking on behalf of the students, demanded an immediate end to the incessant ASUU strike and called for adequate funding of the education sector seen as key to sustainable growth and development of the country.
“We, the great students of the federation, hereby demand an immediate end to the incessant ASUU strike, adequate funding of the education sector and prioritisation of education as the key to sustainable growth and development.
The student leaders then issued a seven-day ultimatum for both parties to resolve all the issues, for normal academic activities to return on campuses across the country.
“We hereby give the Federal Government an ultimatum of seven days to resolve the crisis and get us back to school, else, there would be aggressive nationwide agitations thereafter.”
Both parties had failed to agree on the payment platform for payment of the salaries to the striking Lecturers, including the N30billion of the N40 billion earned allowances to them as well as revitalization fund by the government to the public universities.
The Federal Government is insisting on the using of its Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information ( IPPIS) while ASUU demands for the use of its own designed University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) as the acceptable payment platform.
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