The Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students (NANS) has warned authorities of tertiary establishments within the nation towards any additional increment in chargeable charges, lamenting that the present charges have develop into large burdens to them and their households.
The management of the South-West Zone D of NANS made this recognized on Wednesday whereas addressing a press convention in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State.
In response to the coordinator of the affiliation, Taiwo Owolewa, any additional rise in class charges in any of the tertiary establishments of studying in Lagos, Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, Ondo, and Oyo States could be firmly resisted by college students.
“We need to tackle the inhumane difficulty of rising tuition charges in some establishments. The continued escalation of charges imposes an undue monetary burden on college students and their households, creating boundaries to accessing high quality training. Schooling is a elementary proper, and we won’t tolerate actions that restrict this proper via exorbitant tuition will increase.
“We strongly urge establishments contemplating or implementing such will increase to right away rethink. Any additional rise in charges shall be met with agency resistance from the Southwest Zone of the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students (NANS), as we’re decided to guard the pursuits of the coed physique towards disadvantageous insurance policies,” he stated.
The scholars’ physique has additionally issued a 14-day ultimatum to the administration of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Ladoke Akintola College of Expertise, and the College of Lagos (UNILAG) to reinstate College students’ Union our bodies of their colleges and warned different establishments to desist from scrapping the unions.
“We need to difficulty a powerful warning to the administration of establishments which can be militating towards our efforts by way of their oppressive and manipulative choices of scrapping scholar unions to desist from such.
“It has come to our consideration that establishments resembling Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Ladoke Akintola College of Expertise, and notably the College of Lagos (UNILAG) nonetheless lack a practical College students’ Union. The Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students (NANS) Zone D, underneath my management, believes that the absence of practical College students’ Unions is a obvious affront to the rights and aspirations of Nigerian college students. We won’t stand idle as college students’ voices are silenced and their pursuits uncared for in these establishments.
“Having exhausted the primary two Cs of Aluta in advocating for the reinstatement of the College students’ Union at these campuses, we’re left with the ultimate C: Confrontation. Due to this fact, we hereby difficulty a 14-day ultimatum to UNILAG, OSPOLY, and LAUTECH to reinstate their College students’ Union. If this demand shouldn’t be met, the affiliation will mobilise a large protest to disrupt educational actions and produce the difficulty to nationwide consideration. This absence undermines college students’ rights and limits their means to voice and safeguard their pursuits.
“Ought to this ultimatum move with out motion, we’re ready to take decisive motion to guard the rights of our college students in Zone D, and we won’t hesitate to make use of all accessible means, together with mass protests, to make sure that our calls for are met,” Owolewa acknowledged.
