The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and some rights activists have called on the federal and state governments to immediately look into the recent hike in tuition fees in federal and state universities across the country and find sustainable ways to address the issue. The call followed the recent increase in tuition and other fees in some public tertiary …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has commended the Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, for his outstanding work in implementing automated passport registration. On Monday, Tunji-Ojo launched the online passport application portal to allow Nigerians to apply for their passport seamlessly. He noted that Nigerian applicants who want 32-page passports with five-year validity would pay N35,000, while those …

The President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Lucky Emonefe has called on President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly to increase the budget for education in the 2024 federal budget proposal. During a Citizen’s Town Hall meeting on the 2024 Budget and Appropriation Process by the House of Representatives, Emonefe also called for the inclusion of …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Sunday faulted the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Owerri zone over the call for the resignation of the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), Prof. Nnenna Oti. It was reported on Friday that the zonal branch of ASUU called for the immediate resignation of Oti following allegations …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said it will storm tertiary institutions that proceed to implement fee hikes across their campuses. NANS executives warned on Friday in Lagos at a media conference that university management needed to obey the directive of President Bola Tinubu to halt fee hikes on their campuses. “We want to seize this moment to …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned the comment of the presidency on the increase of school fees, describing it as deceitful and misleading. The presidency, through the Special Adviser to the president on Communication and Strategy, Mr. Dele Alake on Wednesday said reports suggesting that President Bola Tinubu increased tuition fees in federal government-owned universities are incorrect. …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Friday protested against the 300 per cent hike in school fees at Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Edo State. The students’ national body stormed the premises of the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Benin City, the state capital, demanding the reversal of the increase and the sacking of …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will appeal Wednesday’s ruling of the National Industrial Court which ordered the union to suspend its seven-month-old strike. In his ruling, Justice Polycarp Hamman had observed that the strike action has had impacts on the lives of the students, and that it was obvious that the legal adviser of the Federal Ministry of Labour …

University students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) have begun to make good their threat to shut down the country over the intransigence of the Muhammadu Buhari administration on the strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which is more than  seven months old already!  The students’ action can be …

Notwithstanding the mediation planned for Tuesday by the House of Representatives, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) continued its protest against the prolonged dispute between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by threatening to shut down the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Security forces were deployed to the airport on Tuesday  to pre-empt the …