Tag: NANS

Minimum wage: NANS backs NLC, urges FG to accept Labour’s demands

Aminu Imam
NANS NLC

The National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), has expressed its support for the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress, (TUC), in their demand for an increase in the national minimum wage. Recall that on Friday, the NLC announced an indefinite nationwide strike set to commence on Monday, June 3, 2024, citing the Federal Government’s refusal to raise the proposed minimum wage above N60,000. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, stated that the strike follows unsuccessful negotiations between the Government and Organised Labour. Despite the Government’s final offer of N60,000,…

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NANS threatens mass action over fuel scarcity

Aminu Imam
NANS

National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), has threatened to embark on mass action if the Federal Government fails to take immediate steps to address the current fuel scarcity in the country. The students’ body also asked the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, to resign if he could not take decisive actions to resolve the fuel crisis. The association’s senate president, Babatunde Akinteye, in an issued  statement yesterday, lamented that the fuel scarcity has left many citizens, including students, frustrated and helpless. Nigerians…

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Nigerian students demand resignation of Power Minister, Adelabu in 7 days

Aminu Imam
NANS Adelabu

…Threatens protest The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has demanded the immediate resignation of the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, over the poor electricity situation in the country. NANS further called on other ministers who they claimed are not active to step down from their positions, threatening to organise a protest at the Ministry of Power if their demand was not met within the next seven days. The national student body issued a notice of protest at the Ministry of Power, saying that they stand united in their demand…

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“Declare day of national mourning on Plateau killings”, NANS tells FG

Aminu Imam

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the Federal Government to declare a day of national mourning on the recent killings in Plateau State. It also said it was embarrassing that no one has been arrested in connection with the recent killings in the State. Recall that about 195 persons were killed in a Christmas Eve attack in 17 villages in the Barkin-Ladi, Mangu, and Bokkos local government areas of the State. The attacks had also displaced over 10,000 persons, many of whom were presently camped in…

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Gunshots fired, as NANS factions storm Abuja hospital

Aminu Imam

…Patients flee Gunshots were fired near the International Conference Centre (ICC), in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja yesterday. It was learnt the shots were fired during the National Association’s election. Security sources, who spoke to newsmen yesterday, said a fight had broken out between two warring NANS factions on Thursday, leading to violent attacks that left some students injured and hospitalised. The injured NANS members were later taken to the National Hospital for medical care. It was, however, alleged that medical personnel did not adequately attend to the injured…

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Tuition Fees Hike: NANS threatens mass protest

Aminu Imam

Following the recent increase in tuition fees in tertiary institutions and government schools, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened to stage a mass protest in the country. In an issued statement signed by its National PRO, Giwa Temitope and released yesterday, NANS condemned the planned increment, declaring that the government’s action is “insensitive” and “embarrassing”. The association also stressed that the government has what it takes to fund education and make it accessible, noting that the introduction of the student loan scheme is a sham and a…

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School Fees Hike: NANS threatens to shut down Nigeria, all airports

Aminu Imam

The Federal and State Governments in the country have been put on notice, to either stop the increase in tuition fees in all tertiary institutions across the country or face the hardest-ever student uprising. The declaration was made by the National President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Usman Barambu while speaking at the 1st North-East Zonal Senate sitting of NANS, which was held yesterday at the Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic, (ATAP), Bauchi.  He said that the increase in tuition fees has negatively affected students particularly those…

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“Disregard NANS Sudan, stay indoors”, Embassy tells Nigerian students

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has advised Nigerians studying in war-torn Sudan to disregard the National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), plans to evacuate them to Ethiopia. In an issued statement yesterday by the Charge D’ Affairs of the Nigerian Embassy in Khartoum, H .Y. Garko, the Federal Government urged the students to maintain their composure as preparations were being made to evacuate them from the North African country. The NANS had, in an issued statement by its media committee directed the students to gather in Gadarif for their evacuation to neighbouring…

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Sudan Crisis: Nigerian students to pay $100 as NANS evacuates to Ethiopia

Aminu Imam

Following the war in Sudan that has claimed hundreds of lives and left many foreign nationals stranded, several Nigerian students currently at the war zone have announced plans to evacuate to Ethiopia. In a statement released yesterday by the media committee of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Sudan branch, the students instructed their peers to gather at three points in Gadarif before being evacuated to the neighbouring country of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the Federal Government, through the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, described the situation…

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A’isha Buhari: NANS to begin nationwide protest on Monday

Aminu Imam

The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has declared a nationwide protest to demand the release of a student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Aminu Adamu Mohammed, who was arrested and sent to prison over a tweet he posted on Nigeria’s First Lady, A’isha Buhari. NANS President, Usman Barambu, in an issued statement yesterday, noted that the protest, which would commence on Monday, would be indefinite until Mohammed regained freedom. The association had earlier apologised to the First Lady, while also calling for Aminu’s release. This not…

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