NANS declares support for Sanwo-Olu’s re-election bid

As the gubernatorial election holds next Saturday across the nation, the Lagos State chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on eligible voters among the student populace in the state to vote for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who they described as “one who is tested and trusted with the best plan for education in Lagos State”.

At a press briefing at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja Lagos, state chairman, Comrade Olusesi Tolulope said that due to Sanwo-Olu’s progressive thinking, the state now boasts of three world-class universities, adding: “The priority accorded to tertiary education in Lagos by Sanwo-Olu-led administration is unrivaled, as the upgrade of former Lagos State Polytechnic and Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education as Lagos State University of Education and University  Science and Technology respectively are topnotch”.

Tolulope said that the tertiary education programmes and policies implemented by the governor were designed to support student’s academic aspirations, devoid of the Nigeria drama of the perennial strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU) and other academic and non-academic unions.

“Lagos was the envy of the nation when the incessant nine months ASUU strike of 2022 brought a stall to Nigerian students’ academic calendars and lives. At that same period, Lagos underwent the needed phases of transformation in her tertiary institutions, making the state education above the common standard of Nigeria’s education setting”, he said.

He further said that the Sanwo-Olu administration has been working on setting up an Education Trust Fund that would change the mode of funding tertiary education in the country. That, Tolulope said, would show that with the right leadership at the state level, education can be taken to a world-class level in Nigeria.