Female students gives FG 7-day ultimatum to resolve ASUU strike

The National Association of Nigerian Female Students (NANFS) has given the federal government a seven-day ultimatum to resolve the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to save the nation’s university system from total collapse.

This was contained in a statement signed by the group’s president, Comrade Funmi Farinde.

According to the group, “government is not feeling the strike because their children are in private universities. Government should bear in mind that we are the future of this great nation,” adding that “an idle mind is the devil’s workshop.

“We, Nigerian female students, therefore call on the federal government to set in motion all the mechanism necessary for meeting the funding requirement of the FGN/ASUU agreement of 2009.

“We are giving the federal government a 7 day ultimatum to resolve the conflict with ASUU quickly to save the university system from collapsing,” the statement read.

The group also advised the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) to concentrate on its primary role of regulating the standard of university education in the country, rather than managing scholarship funds and awarding contracts.

Sources: Daily trust