NANS draws protest timetable, plans to ground Abuja

The National Association of Nigerian Students has rolled out a new timetable for its nationwide protests.

In the timetable, signed by the ‘President-Elect’ of the student body, Usman Barambu, dated Monday, obtained on Tuesday by The PUNCH, NANS scheduled the protests to hold zone by zone, from its Zone A to Zone F, with Abuja being the location for a final protest.

The protests, which have already begun in September, will run till October 11, 2022, after which Barambu will lead the “Abuja shutdown.”

NANS is protesting the prolonged strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

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The NANS President said, “You will agree with me that on February 14, 2022, ASUU embarked on an indefinite warning strike which had led to various phases of its strike activities for past seven months, due to ASUU and the Federal Government’s inability to resolve their issues.”