The Madonna University Alumni Association has urged the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to soft-pedal on its threat to massively clamp down on private universities in the country as a result of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union, (ASUU).
The Federal Government last week announced the granting of licences to enable seven new private universities to operate. With that approval, the number of recognised universities in the country rose to ninety-six, thirty-four of them private.
Vice-Chancellors of private universities have expressed great concern and sympathy for Nigerian students whose careers are currently being threatened by the face-off between the Federal government and ASUU which has kept them at home for over three months, noting that there is an urgent need to end the ongoing strike for the good of the nation.