{"id":99363,"date":"2022-09-18T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T09:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99363"},"modified":"2022-09-18T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T09:24:32","slug":"asuu-strike-well-ground-airports-after-shutting-down-highways-for-4-days-students-vow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/asuu-strike-well-ground-airports-after-shutting-down-highways-for-4-days-students-vow\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU strike: We\u2019ll ground airports after shutting down highways\u00a0 for 4 days, students vow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1744292863995908128\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has vowed to ground activities at international airports across the country, in protest against the seven-monthly impasses between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Chairman, NANS National Task Force on \u2018End ASUU Strike Now,\u2019 Ojo Raymond Olumide, who spoke in Akure, decried the attitude of the Federal Government towards the striking lecturers as well as education as a whole.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Olumide said that \u201cthe four-day shutdown of busy highways and expressways had been a success, hence the move to disrupt international travels in order for the bourgeois and the government to feel the pains that had subjected students to in the past seven months\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, students were already tired of pleading with both parties over the need to end the strike.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe students\u2019 leader said that the airports to\u00a0 be occupied will remain grounded until the strike is called off, adding that the Buhari administration must pay all outstanding arrears and salaries of the lecturers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall begin another round of protest next week by storming the airspaces to #OccupyTheAirports. We want to let the world know about the pains and anguish students are going through\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerian students whose parents create the commonwealth cannot continue to be suffering at home alongside our lecturers while the few who gain from our sweat and blood have their kids abroad jollying and flexing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on students to rise and join us as we take our destinies into our hands. Our demands remain consistently clear and simple. We call on ASUU leadership for a meeting as soon as possible to discuss solidarity actions and plan for the next phase of the struggles.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has vowed to ground activities at international airports across the country, in protest against the seven-monthly impasses between the Federal&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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