NANS/JCC Declares Support

The newly-elected Chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Students/ Joint Campus Committee (NANS/JCC), Osun Axis, Comrade Awowole Samuel, has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to respect the agreement it had with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in 2001, in the general interest of the students.


Addressing journalists after the election of the association held at Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke, the association expressed displeasure on the prolonged ASUU strike, which has crippled the universities.

He also called for the support of other labour unions and civil societies on the ASUU struggle to selvage education in Nigerian saying: “The deteriorating situation of education should be the concern of everybody.

“What ASUU is asking for is the adequate funding of the university system so that our universities will not continue to produce students who will not be able to compete with their colleagues in other parts of the world; this should be the concern of all Nigerians”

He said the NANS/ JCC, Osun Axis, has declared its support for ASUU and vowed to support other progressive organizations to take the struggle to the doorsteps of the Federal Government.

He solicited the support of the government and other stakeholders in tertiary institutions in the state to further promote functional and qualitative education in the state.

Awowole also commended the state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, for constituting the governing councils for the state-owned institutions, as a result of agitations by the students and urged the new council members to focus on the infrastructural development and academic standard.

He said: “While we commend the governor for appointing the governing councils after several protests by the students in the state, the new council members must see their new appointments as a call to responsibility to reposition the neglected infrastructure in our institutions.”

Other executives elected at the convention included Comrade Agolo Samson, Secretary; Adekitan Lukman, PRO; Esan Victor, Assistant Sectary and Aliyu Obafemi, Mobilization Officer.