On latest trending news in Nigeria today- On Thursday, The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) started a protest in Abuja calling for urgent negotiation to end the continuous strike of the Academic Personal Union of Polytechnic Students (ASUP).

The displeased students who barricaded the passageway of the Federal Ministry of Education with banners with different engravings requested the government to listens to the shouts from the students and their teachers. Addressing journalists, the President of the NAPS, Mr. Sunday Asuku, encouraged the parties to arrive at a trade off or to risk a national protest by the students. “We are here to request the quick resuming of our universities.

ASUP has been protesting for 2 months now and nothing has been done about it. "The public authority remains silent about it and we need them to resume the schools now or we will not leave them. "We kept in touch with them, yet they denied. The workers of the government get their compensations and remittances as do our lecturers. So who will pay the students for sitting around idly? ”, He said. Asuku added that the students body had connected with ASUP, which had vowed to change floors if the public authority yielded to their requests.

“ASUP requested 15 articles from the national government, however was simply ready to get two, which isn’t admirable for us. "As aa student body, we are keen on the public authority paying the teachers their lowest pay permitted by law, which is for a very long time. "Other MDAs have gotten theirs since November 2019, for what reason should our lecturers get ransom? In the event that you can give them this, we reserve the privilege to consider them responsible for not instructing. "We need the public authority to get back to ASUP to a round table and give them what is theirs.

Else we will granulate Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport by Monday,” he said. Nonetheless, the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukuemeka Nwajiuba, advised the students that everything identified with ASUP had been settled. Nwajiuba said the association currently has an obligation to be reasonable for the students by severing the strike. “Every one of us is tortured by what is happening in the polytechnical space of our education system.

A large number of us addressed ASUP at the hour of our notice strike that we are not running an impromptu government. "Nothing closes today, regardless of whether I pass on today, Nigeria will proceed to exist and nothing will stop Nigeria. "At the point when ASUP needed to begin this strike, we composed it and said that all that ASUP requested was concurred. We don’t have a space of disagreement. On May 23rd, we told ASUP and gave them a list with all that they said we ought to do what we complied, "he said. The Nigeria News Agency (NAN) reminded that polytechnic lecturers have been protesting for a very long time on the grounds that the public authority can’t satisfy their needs.

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