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Nigeria: Nans Calls for Education Summit
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Daily Champion (Lagos)
9 July 2008
Posted to the web 9 July 2008
Selya Yarnap
Lagos
National President of National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), Bashir Babale has declared that it is only a national summit on education that could provide a lasting solution to the problems of the education sector of the country.
Fielding questions from news men in Bauchi, Babale while justifying the on-going strike action by the teachers said that they deserve better treatment in terms of remuneration because there is enough resources to cater for the salaries of the teachers.
The Nigeria students leader added that successive governments in the country should be held responsible for the deteriorated nature of education sector, saying that what the present administration is doing is trying to rescue an already bad situation opining, however, that enough will power must be displayed to be able to solve the problem.
He further said that what is happening is the polarisation of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) with the registration of Academic Union of Secondary Schools Staff, declaring that unless urgent steps are taken by the concerned authorities in the education sector the problem will degenerate to a crisis situation which will demand for an emergency before it is solved.
He added, "Though education is one of the seven points agenda of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, deliberate steps have not been taken to solve the problem.
The federal government should show seriousness in getting to the root of the problem rather than maintaining a stance of confrontation as it the present situation.
Everyone that has a stake in the education sector should be made to sit down to evolve a lasting solution to the problem."
Babale also warned that unless the teachers strike was resolved amicably, it may extend to other units of the sector, such as the universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other educational institutions in the country.
While calling on the striking teachers' to see reasons and give room for dialogue in order to amicably solve the problem the NANS President assured that his association will always support any good cause that will bring a lasting solution to the problem which he said has lingered on for quite some times now.
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He then declared that sanity has now returned to students' unionism in the country with the election of his new leadership, assuring that maturity will now take the center stage in everything the students will do in all the campuses in the country. He, calling however on the authorities not provoke the students into taking the laws into their hands.
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