{"id":68954,"date":"2025-06-25T06:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68954"},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:48:24","slug":"nans-issues-7-day-ultimatum-to-wike-over-prolonged-closure-of-abuja-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/25\/nans-issues-7-day-ultimatum-to-wike-over-prolonged-closure-of-abuja-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"NANS Issues 7-Day Ultimatum to Wike Over Prolonged Closure of Abuja Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, demanding the immediate reopening of all public primary schools in Abuja that have remained closed for over two months.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Wednesday signed by NANS National President, Comrade Olushola Oladoja, the student body condemned the ongoing disruption of basic education in the nation’s capital, describing it as an injustice to children from low-income backgrounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor more than two months, thousands of pupils have been locked out of classrooms in the capital of Africa\u2019s most populous country, while the children of political elites continue to attend private schools without interruption.<\/p>\n

This is not merely an oversight, it is a violation of fundamental rights,\u201d Oladoja said.<\/p>\n

The closure, according to NANS, stems from a standoff between the FCT Administration and Local Government Education Authorities (LGEAs), which has led to a funding and administrative impasse.<\/p>\n

The group argues that while political actors wrangle over responsibilities, it is the most vulnerable children who bear the brunt.<\/p>\n

NANS revealed that several attempts have been made to engage the minister in dialogue, including formal letters and policy suggestions.<\/p>\n

However, the association lamented that Wike has yet to respond to any of their overtures.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have exhausted every channel of peaceful engagement. The silence from the minister\u2019s office is both disrespectful and dangerous.<\/p>\n

If action is not taken within the next seven working days, we will have no choice but to mobilise thousands of students and civil society allies for a peaceful mass protest that could result in the shutdown of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA),\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

NANS further stressed that education is a constitutional right and not a luxury, warning that prolonged inaction would provoke a nationwide outcry and escalate into a broader civil resistance movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe continued closure of these schools is a stain on the conscience of the nation. Abuja cannot function normally while its youngest citizens are denied access to the most basic right; education.<\/p>\n

We will not sit idly by while the future of Nigerian children is sabotaged by government negligence,\u201d Oladoja concluded.<\/p>\n

The association has called on parents, teachers, civil society groups, and human rights advocates to join its call for urgent government action, stressing that collective pressure is essential to ending what it describes as an “unacceptable educational blackout” in the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adenike Lawal The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, demanding the immediate reopening of all public primary schools in Abuja that have remained closed for over two months. In a statement on Wednesday signed by NANS National President, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":68955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-68954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68956,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954\/revisions\/68956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}