‘We Will Shut Down International Airports’ – Nigerian Students Declares

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has issued a statement insisting that it will be shutting down operations at all international airports in the country following the seven-month standoff between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

The national body of NANS met over the weekend in Akure, the capital of Ondo State.

They condemned the Federal Government handling of the the industrial action embarked upon by their lecturers as well as the general condition of Nigeria’s educational system.

The students maintained that the 4-day closure of highways and expressways was a success, which is why they decided to stop international travel beginning on September 19, 2022.

For them, the action is to ensure that the bourgeois and the government experience the suffering that students have gone through in the previous 7 months.

During a world press conference, the NANS National Task Force on “End ASUU Strike Now” Chairman, Ojo Raymond Olumide, revealed that students were already tired of pleading with both parties about the necessity of ending the strike.

“The President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration must settle all outstanding arrears and the lecturers’ salaries”, Olumide said, adding that the airports that would be occupied will remain closed until the strike is called off.

“We shall begin another round of protest next week by storming the airspaces on Monday, 19th September 2022 to #OccupyTheAirports. We want to let the world know about the pains and anguish students are going through.

“Nigerian students whose parents create the commonwealth cannot continue to be suffering at home alongside our lecturers while the few who gain from our sweats and blood have their kids abroad jollying and flexing.

“We will, by this statement, not beg again. We shall be mobilizing all students to shut down the country. No Education! No Movement!”

While berating the Minister of Works, Babatunde Raji Fashola, over his purported comment on the barricade of federal roads by the students, NANS passed a vote of no confidence on both the ministers of Labour and Education.

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