THE National Association of Nigerian Students,NANS, said Sunday that its patience following the strike in the nation’s public universities,had been overstretched.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an urgent appeal to two UN special rapporteurs urging them to “prevail upon the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reach an agreement to end the ongoing strike action by ASUU, which continues to have real and dire consequences on the right to higher education, specifically university education, as guaranteed by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, to which Nigeria is a state party.”

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, Lagos State University, Ojo, ASUU-LASU has alleged that the institution since 2009 has not paid the earned academic allowances, EAA, that amounted to N530 million wage bill; N450 million monthly subvention and N80 million level of supplementation by university. In a release made available to Vanguard, Dr Tony Dansu, secretary, ASUU-LASU and Comrade Dr Adeolu   Oyekan noted that despite LASU being among state universities that got much from its visitors, it has paid zero of its earned academic allowance to the staff.

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has urged members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) to call off their strike.

LAGOS — THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, vowed to continue the ongoing six weeks strike that has grounded public universities.