The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) applauded President Bola Tinubu for recently signing the Student Loan Bill into law.
Mr. Mathew Okoye Okpala, the newly elected NANS chairman of Anambra State’s Joint Campus Council (JCC), made the announcement during a press conference yesterday.
During the meeting, Okpara, a student in the Department of Political Science at Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu University in Igbariam, urged for increased security around campuses throughout the country to prevent reports of kidnapping by terrorists and cultist killings.
He said: “The student community wants to convey our gratitude to our father and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the signing of the students’ loan bill to law.
“This will help in making sure that Nigerian students complete their studies without hitches and on record time.”
Okpara, pleaded with Tinubu to also look into the issue of students’ grant, and consider Nigerian students worthy of receiving grants.
Speaking on insecurity around campuses in Nigeria, the Anambra JCC chairman urged Tinubu to ensure that tertiary institutions receive adequate protection.
There had been incidences of mass abduction of students in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. In Anambra State, rampaging cultists had cut short the lives of students in Nnamdi Azikiwe University and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University.
To forestall such occurrences, Okpala said: “We want to call the attention of Mr. President of Nigerian, to the insecurity in our campuses. “He should please look into it, as protection of lives and properties of Nigerians should be a major responsibility on his table.”
Okpala, said his council would work with student union governments in all the tertiary institutions in Anambra State to ensure that tales of incessant increment in tuition fees will be a thing of the past.
He pledged support for Prof Chukwuma Soludo’s revolutionary government in Anambra State.
Okpala won last weekend’s election after securing four out of seven votes cast by senate representatives of the seven participating institutions in the state.