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What we told President Tinubu – NANS

Umar Barambu, the president of the National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), said his group sought President Bola Tinubu to remove the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other non-relevant bodies that had been named as part of the ‘Student Loans’ board.

Tinubu, NANS meet over student's loan board
President Tinubu and NANS officials at the Presidential Villa, Abuja

The student body along with the National Association of University Students (NAUS), the National Association of Colleges of Education Students (NACES), and the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) met with the President.

Barambu said they had gathered to thank President Tinubu for the newly promulgated Access to Higher Education Act and to equllly point out their disapproval of some clauses and associations appointed into the Student’s Loan Board.

 

Justifying the student’s and youth’s bodies rejection of ASUU on the board, Barambu said that the lecturer’s union “has its own microfinance bank running their own affairs without students on their board.”

“I don’t think it’s wise for us to allow them to be inside our own board because it is purely students,” he added. “We mentioned a lot of people that they should remove and put more of student-oriented organisation,” Barambu also said.

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He stated President Tinubu promised to consider their complaints and, likewise, urged them to see that all student bodies are united and their elections done democratically.

At the same time, President Tinubu says during the visit by the representatives of the bodies, he “reiterated the administration’s commitment to youth empowerment and social justice through meaningful inclusion in governance, affordable access to quality education, and the creation of gainful opportunities across all sectors of the economy.

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