ASUU Strike: NANS passes vote of no confidence on Jonathan

The National President, National Association of Nigerian Students,
(NANS) said Monday Nigerian students have lost confidence in the
administration of President Jonathan in revamping the educational
sector to international standard.
Prince Miaphen said in a statement distributed to journalists that the
Jonathan administration had failed to address the lingering ASUU
crisis and by so doing thwarting past efforts to rev up the standard
of education in the country.
"It worrisome and infuriating that the administration of Goodluck
Jonathan has failed to implement the 2009 agreement reached with ASUU.
This as a result has caused a great setback in the pursuit of
education by Nigerian students."
The NAN president said the Jonathan administration was toeing the path
of his predecessors who he said paid lip services to education and
other sensitive sectors of the Nigerian economy.
Mr. Miaphen said Mr. Jonathan's attitude had resulted in the current
rot in the academic sector.
"NANS therefore pass a vote of no confidence on the administration of
President Goodluck Jonathan for the poor pursuit of qualitative
education among students in Nigeria,"
The student leader regretted that President Jonathan and the outgone
minister of education, both of whom were teachers, failed to profer
lasting solutions to the problems bedevilling the educational system.
The statement said the situation in the education sub-sector has
resulted in Nigerian higher institutions producing unemployable
graduates.
"As a result of persistence strike each academic calendar, our
universities and other high institutions churns out half-baked
graduates every year due to incessant strike action, we cannot suffer
in silence while individuals responsible for our travails send their
own children to choice universities school abroad," he said.