Daily Post
The South West Zone of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has urged the Federal Government to seize the opportunities provided by the Yuletide break to address all issues involving the Academic Staff Union of Universities to prevent another strike in the new year.
In a statement made available to DAILY POST in Ogun State by Comrade Emmanuel Olatunji, NANS said it was familiar with the genesis of the agreements and disagreement between ASUU and the Federal Government, saying “the government has shown too little or no commitment to the agreement it willingly entered into with the ASUU in 2009 which is an indirect attack on Nigerian students nationally.”
NANS charged the government to accept the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) instead of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) being rejected by the lecturers.
“On UTAS and IPPIS controversy, we have read about the neoliberal policies of IMF and World Bank in the past history of Education in Nigeria, particular during the era of Structural Adjustment Programme(SAP) which almost resulted to the decrease in number of tertiary institutions and severe negative implications on the country but for the tenacity of Nigerian Students and other civil rights movements.
”And we have no doubts that IPPIS as IMF/World bank initiative cannot address the progressive desires of the Nigerian academics but further model the nation at the mercy of these imperial nations.
“Also, we consider an attempted rejection of UTAS developed by the Nigerian academic body by the federal government as an insult to the Nigerian academia and it implies an indirect…
