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NANS issues Adeleke a seven-day ultimatum over 100% rise in school fees

Fadiran Ifeloluwa March 29, 2024

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given a seven-day ultimatum to Governor Ademola Adeleke regarding a 100% rise in school fees in state-owned institutions. NANS, through its Chairman in Osun State, Ogungbe Taiwo, told reporters yesterday that following an important

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NANS suggests five years after NYSC for student loan repayment

Fadiran Ifeloluwa March 19, 2024

The National Association of Nigerian Students has stated that it is unrealistic to expect recipients of the Federal Government loan scheme to begin payback two years after completing the National Youth Service Corps. It argued that less than 10% of graduates are incorporated into the employment market within two years after completing NYSC. It therefore […]

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NANS begs SSANU and NASU not to strike over withheld salaries

Fadiran Ifeloluwa March 2, 2024

If the government fails to pay its members’ withheld salary, the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions have threatened to disrupt industrial peace in universities. These salaries were seized during a strike in 2022 under former President Muhammadu

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Outrage as Tinubu’s government once more delays paying out student loans

Fadiran Ifeloluwa February 2, 2024

Parents, students, and other stakeholders have expressed their frustration and indignation over the ongoing delays in the student loan disbursement that the leadership of President Bola Tinubu has promised. The Students Loan Fund (SLF), designed to provide interest-free loans to disadvantaged students, has experienced persistent setbacks, missing the January 2024 target

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NDDC’s uncompleted projects in tertiary institutions posing security threat, says NANS

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 26, 2024

IBADAN (Sundiata Scholar) – According to the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), unfinished Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) projects in a few tertiary institutions around the nation pose a security risk. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Friday, Mr. Akinteye Babatunde, the President of the NANS’ Senate,

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NANS urges FG to suspend institutions running unaccredited courses

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 15, 2024

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the Federal Government to take action against institutions running unaccredited courses. This happened soon after the Federal Ministry of Education stopped accrediting and evaluating degree certificates from Togo and the Republic of Benin. Following an undercover investigation by a Nigerian newspaper that

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NANS hails Tinubu for approving N683bn intervention fund for public tertiary institutions

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 14, 2024

ENUGU – President Bola Tinubu has received praise from the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) for approving N683 billion to be used as the 2024 Intervention Fund for public tertiary education institutions in the nation. The amount was announced on Friday by the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Mr Sonny Echono, […]

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NANS appeals to FG to step in over the proposed hike in tuition fees

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 11, 2024

In response to several tertiary institutions’ intentions to raise tuition, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has once again urged the federal government to act quickly to save its students. This was stated in a Thursday statement by NANS. Recent plans for tuition price increases, particularly from the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA)

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CDHR opposes Osun Poly’s tuition fee increase

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 9, 2024

The Osun State branch of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has expressed disapproval over the recent increase in Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, tuition rates. In a statement released on Tuesday by state chairman Emmanuel Olowu, Osun CDHR characterised the increase as a blatant infringement on Nigerians’ right to an inexpensive and […]

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Nigerian students call on Tinubu to give security top priority

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 7, 2024

President Bola Tinubu was asked on Sunday by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to give the security of citizens’ lives and property top priority. At a press conference in Abeokuta, the senate president, Elvis Ekudina, made the request, stressing the significance of the student body’s input on the status of the country. He […]

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Nothern youths call for immediate cancellation of planned WAEC CBT exam

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 5, 2024

Northern Youths are incensed about the proposed switch to Computer-Based Testing (CBT) for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exams. Under the auspices of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Northerners have demanded an urgent halt to the plans, pointing to the possibility of widespread failures in rural regions as a result of low computer […]

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Benin Republic students from Nigeria discuss why FG should unban certificates from Togo, Benin universities

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 4, 2024

The Federal Government’s recent restriction on degree certificates from universities in the Benin and Togo Republics has upset Nigerian students studying in the Benin Republic. Following an undercover investigation by a Nigerian journalist that revealed purportedly dishonest and fraudulent procedures in colleges in both countries—including the issuance of degree

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States’ inability to access N68bn UBEC fund is criminal – NAPTAN, NANS

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 2, 2024

The failure of certain state governments to access a grant of approximately N68 billion from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has been characterised by certain critical stakeholders in the education system as criminal. They claim that the basic education sector faces numerous challenges, some of which such an amount can help to partially address. As of

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NANS requests that Tinubu approve the N200,000 bursary allowance for students

Fadiran Ifeloluwa December 3, 2023

President Bola Tinubu has been urged to approve a national annual bursary of N200,000 for all Nigerian students, regardless of academic standing, by Lucky Emonefe, the recently elected president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). During his initial press conference on Saturday in Abuja, Emonefe stated that the Fund will serve as a […]

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S/West NANS Pushes That Student Unions be Reinstated in Tertiary Institutions

Fadiran Ifeloluwa October 13, 2023

The Southwest Zone of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has urged administration of the region’s tertiary institutions to ensure that all Student Unions are restored where they have been disbanded. The student body specifically voiced its displeasure with the ongoing delay in the reinstatement of the Student Union Governments at the Federal College