PROTESTERS hit the streets in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on Wednesday, demanding a retrial of the case involving fraud in the administration of police pension fund. In the case, former director of the Police Pension Office, Mr John Yakubu Yusuf had been jailed for two years by Justice Abubakar Talba with an option [...]
Members of The Anti Corruption Network and other Civil Society organizations today protested the light sentence handed down to the former director of Police Pension Board, John Yakubu Yesufu by an Abuja High Court. The protest which started at the Ministry of Justice was led by Dino Melaye with members of National Association of Nigerian [...]
The All Africa Students Union (AASU) has disowned a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Party, Olabode George, saying it has no plan to confer any award on him. Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES from AASU headquarters in Accra, Ghana, the Secretary General of the organization, Fred Awah, said reports of the award on Mr. [...]
THE National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has warned against any attempts by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to again embark on a solidarity strike over the re-appointment of Professor Barineme Fakae, acting Vice Chancellor of the River State University of Science of Technology (RSUST). NANS President, Comrade Dauda Muhammed, in a statement [...]
Following the appearance of the national president of The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) at a political rally in Akure the Ondo state capital, The NANS ZONE D (Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti Osun and Ondo states) has debunked the prevalent news that the association has endorsed a specific Gubernatorial candidate for Governorship election in [...]
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened a protest across all campuses of the nation’s universities if urgent measures are not put in place to unmask the killers of some students of institutions of higher learning in Mubi, Adamawa State and Aluu in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The association said the protest might [...]
In line with the determination of NANS under my leadership as national president, and to ensure a peaceful and transparent transition consequent upon the resolution of the NANS Senate which have proposed that the next NANS annual convention be held between 22nd and 24th of November 2012. I hereby announce the composition of a Convention [...]
Government of the State of Osun has disclosed that excess figures arising from increase in the amount payable as bursary allowance to students is responsible for the delay in its payment. This was disclosed by the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Sunday Akere, while speaking with OSUN DEFENDER after the recent students’ protest [...]
Three leaders of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) who traveled to Abuja to bestow a controversial “Governor of The Year” award on Governor Olusegun Rahman Mimiko of Ondo State died Friday in a ghastly accident. Several other student leaders reportedly sustained injuries, with one said to be in critical condition. The NANS leaders, [...]
Foreign universities are profiting from Nigeria’s ill-equipped institutions, as Nigerian youths paid whooping sums as tuition fees to British and American universities in the last two years. It was revealed that Nigerians studying in Britain and American universities may have spent over N137.023bn on tuition and living expenses in the last two academic sessions going [...]
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