The national leadership of the National Association Nigerian Students (NANS) has announced that it will on Friday, May 7, protest against the incessant kidnapping and killings of students in schools in some parts of the country by bandits and other terrorist groups.

NANS senate president, Comrade Chuks Okafor, disclosed this in a Communique issued shortly after addressing some selected Journalists at NUJ Press Centre Awka, on Tuesday, May 4, saying the protest is aimed at demanding that political leaders irrespective of their political affiliations come together and solve the rising insecurity in Nigerian universities.

The student body threatened that it would shut down all federal highways, the National Assembly complex, airport terminals, and institutions of learning, should the government fail to rescue the remaining students kidnapped in Kaduna state and other life-threatening challenges Nigeria students are facing in different parts of the country.

NANS further condemned the attacks on Greenfield University, Kaduna State, where over 40 students were kidnapped and about 5 of them killed, National College of Forestry, Kaduna, where over 29 students were kidnapped, and the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, saying the recent trend has disrupted academic activities in most of the institutions under attacks.