LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The (NANS) has condemned the arrest of peaceful protesters across various states, including Akure, Kaduna, Jos, Kano, and others, issuing a 24-hour ultimatum to the Nigeria Police Force to release all detained student leaders and protesters. In a statement signed by NANS President of the Senate, Comrade Henry Okunomo, the association…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given President Bola Tinubu a 14-day ultimatum to implement concrete measures to tackle the rising cost of living crisis in the country. The students’ body which lamented the hardships faced by Nigerians warned that failure to come out with implementable policies that would address…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Association of Nigerian Students on Friday protested against the 300 per cent hike in school fees at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State. The students national body, while at the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council, demanded the reversal of the increase and the sacking of…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has urged the federal government to allow higher institutions in the country go on break now for the students who registered last year to collect their permanent voter’s cards, PVCs. According to the association, if the step is not taken, over four million students would…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has vowed to mobilise its members nationwide in a “mother of all protest” if the Federal Government goes ahead with the plan to commence school feeding programme at a time when the schools are shutdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. National President…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Insistence by the Federal Government to continue its homegrown school feeding programme, even when schools in the country are currently shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, may not only fail abysmally, but become a drain pipe on the lean resources of government at this point in time. This is the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-Two factions of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Wednesday in Abuja engaged each other in a brawl over a plan by the South African High Commission to sponsor some Nigerian students to their country. The President of National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) Bello Shagari who led the group…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has gven all South Africans and their companies operating in Nigeria to shut down within seven days and move out of the country, following the increasing number of Xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa. Akpan made the call at a press conference organised by…