{"id":60356,"date":"2022-02-28T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=60356"},"modified":"2022-02-28T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:29:58","slug":"asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others","title":{"rendered":"ASUU strike: Nigerian students protest in Abuja, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, on Monday, staged a protest in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and some other parts of the nation over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.<\/p>\n<p>The National President of the association, Sunday Asefon, with other students, converged at Unity Fountain in Abuja on Monday morning, displaying various placards.<\/p>\n<p>Students also protested in other states including, Kano State; Jos, Plateau State; Kofar Nasarawa, Minna, Niger State; Jalingo, Taraba State, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Asefon, who spoke with newsmen in Abuja at the beginning of the protest, said they were marching from the Unity Fountain to the Federal Secretariat and then proceed to the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that NANS, on Tuesday, last week, issued a one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to resolve its disagreement with ASUU or face a national mass action by Nigerian students across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Asefon said the students would block some major roads in the nation\u2019s capital if the government and ASUU fail to resolve the issues within the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, on Monday, staged a protest in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and some other parts of the nation over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The National President of the association, Sunday Asefon, with other students, converged at Unity Fountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":60355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1592,254,260],"class_list":["post-60356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-asuu-strike","tag-nigeria","tag-protest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ASUU strike: Nigerian students protest in Abuja, others - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, on Monday, staged a protest in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ASUU strike: Nigerian students protest in Abuja, others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, on Monday, staged a protest in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-28T15:30:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/img-621cea5aaac45.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"919\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ASUU strike: Nigerian students protest in Abuja, others\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-28T15:30:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/img-621cea5aaac45.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"ASUU Strike\",\"Nigeria\",\"Protest\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-nigerian-students-protest-in-abuja-others\",\"name\":\"ASUU strike: Nigerian students protest in Abuja, others - 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