The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Umar Faruk, has vowed that there will be no going back on the plan to shut down Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos beginning from tomorrow, Monday, September 19, 2022.
Faruk insisted that until the strike is called off, the students would not relent in street protest and blockade of roads and public institutions across cities of Nigeria.
Tribune Online has also gathered that because of the threat issued by NANS to shut down airports across the country following the 7-month-old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over unpaid accumulated welfare, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has beefed up security around the major airports.
Some critics have, however, faulted the decision of NANS to shut down the airports as a wrong decision that would not bring the required solutions.
President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke had Thursday said that the union would be willing to call off the seven-month-old strike if a concrete agreement is reached with the Federal Government.
ASUU and the Federal Government are in Court over the prolonged strike but Osodeke, speaking in Abuja at a National Town Hall Meeting on Tertiary Education tagged: ‘ The Locked Gates of our Citadels -A National Emergency said this could only be achieved if concrete agreements were reached with the Federal Government.
Credit: The Nigerian Tribune