{"id":74093,"date":"2018-12-29T21:25:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=74093"},"modified":"2018-12-29T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T20:28:14","slug":"asuu-strike-nans-attacks-union-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=74093","title":{"rendered":"ASUU strike: NANS attacks union leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NANs.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Saturday urged the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to go back to negotiations with the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is need for ASUU to continue its negotiations with the Federal Government to find a common ground to resolve issues that led to the union\u2019s ongoing strike,\u2019\u2019 NANS National Public Relations Officer, Mr. Bestman Okereafor, said.<\/p>\n<p>Okereafo, in a statement on Saturday in reaction ASUU\u2019s threat not to suspend its action added: \u201cWe consider this decision as devilish and not in the best interest of Nigerian students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wonder how the lingering disputes will be resolved if meetings are boycotted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are calling on the leadership of ASUU to reverse its decision and consider returning to the negotiation table.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The students\u2019 umbrella body also urged the lecturers to work towards resolving the dispute and suspend the strike before Jan. 1, 2019 in the interest of Nigerian students.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Saturday urged the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to go back to negotiations with the Federal Government. \u201cThere is need for ASUU to continue its negotiations with the Federal Government to find a common ground to resolve issues that led to the union\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5279,7548,6865],"class_list":["post-74093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-asuu","tag-asuu-strike","tag-nans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}