Believing that the prolonged strike by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which has paralysed studies in
public universities in the country is being sustained because the children of
influential people in the country are ensconced in the private universities,
some members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) are
already contemplating attack on the private universities as a way of compelling
the federal government to take a more urgent action in resolving the stalemate
between ASUU and the government.
The students, operating under the umbrella of
the NANS also staged a peaceful protest in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital,
to register their displeasure over federal government's alleged insincerity.
Speaking at the gathering Thursday, Mr.
Steven Adara, a student leader in Ekiti State University (EKSU), noted that
those in government and some prominent Nigerians were not helping the matter,
as they were in the habit of sending their sons and daughters to private
schools and overseas.
