The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Sunday urged both the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to agreeably settle the remaining crisis in between them leading to incessant strikes in the education sector in the very best interest of trainees.

Resolving a press conference at the secretariat of the Students Union Government (SUG) of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, National Director of Administration and Strategy of NANS, Prince Mohammed Sani Hassan, gotten in touch with the Federal Government to right away summon an emergency stakeholders’ conference in the education sector where long lasting solutions would be proffered to challenges militating against the smooth operation of the sector.

While saying that strikes have ended up being a norm in the education sector, Hassan declared that perpetual industrial actions had not only hurt trainees but also their moms and dads who had actually been labouring extremely hard to sponsor their children’s education.

According to him, “The university strike in Nigeria is becoming a standard with successive governments, consisting of the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, failing to satisfy the needs and satisfy the 2008 contract signed by the Federal Government and the ASUU.

“This strike has actually continued to injure more the trainees and their parents, who labour very difficult and in the end have little in their pockets to look after the needs of their particular children in Nigerian universities.

“It remains in the light of the above that the ASUU strike seems to be a festival in Nigeria that happens every year leaving the effects straight on the trainees to bear.

“It is an unarguable conversation that a four-year course now takes not less than 7 to 8 years for a Nigerian student who is fighting tooth and nail to endure in the current economic realities.

“We, for that reason, consider it fit and necessary as stakeholders in this struggle to address you on these sticking around confrontations in between members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government to end this long fight that is keeping the Nigerian trainees far from their classrooms.”

He, for that reason, appealed to the government to fulfil its part of the arrangement with the speakers.

“The Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, under the able guidance of Mallam Adamu and the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, should guarantee compliance to the earlier adopted contract.

“The government and ASUU are stakeholders and at the same time, group players in this game that has triggered this federal government its reputation in the education sector having been pro-ASUU in the past,” Hassan said.

According to him, the education sector had yet to come out of the impacts of in 2015’s strike by ASUU members prior to they started the existing strike, adding that constant strike had actually impacted the chances of the less fortunate to grow to the peak of their career.

Hassan submitted that “we are yet to come out from the negative impacts of similar acts of last year as this strike is never ever anticipated to end quickly. We all saw what took place last year when this sort of strike occurred where the Federal Government and ASUU ended it at a roundtable.

“This strike has continued to affect greatly the chances of the less fortunate to grow to the peak of their career since all the trainees presently in your home are that of the downtrodden.

“ASUU management should call their members to order and let them understand that there is an increasing number of graduates sitting in your home and considering the scarcely readily available job opportunity ought to functioned as a warning signal to the university lecturers.”

The NANS director asserted that education is the right of every Nigerian kid and as such ought to be given top priority attention by the government.

He included that illiteracy and unemployment have been traumatising Nigerians, appealing to the federal government to buy the education sector.

“The government needs to understand that education is a right of every Nigerian child, thus it is to be prioritised to protect the future of the nation amidst the increasing Insecurity.

“Illiteracy and increasing joblessness have actually been identified as the significant aspects that continue to traumatise Nigerians. It ends up being more required for government to develop millions of financial investment in the education sector and guarantee wealth creation through empowerment programmes,” he included.