NANS, National Association of Nigerian Students, yesterday, paralysed activities at the MMA2 local airport and Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos, to pressurise the Federal Government to meet the demands of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
The students protest subjected travellers and motorists to hardship as traffic gridlock was experienced on roads leading to the airport.
Flights were delayed and rescheduled while some passengers missed their flights on account of roads blocked by the students.
The students had promised to continue the protest today by shutting down access roads into the Apapa and Tincan seaports to demand an end to the 7-month ASUU strike.
In a monitored, live television interview on Arise Television, this morning, chairman of NANS, Lagos branch, Comrade Olusesi Tolulope, said today’s protest at the ports had been suspended as a result of the intervention of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, to hold a meeting with the leadership of ASUU in Abuja today. The meeting is scheduled to hold at 3P.M.
Olusesi said, “The out come of the meeting between the Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and ASUU leadership, will determine when NANS will protest at the Apapa and Tincan sea ports.”