The Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students has warned heads of tertiary establishments towards flagrant will increase in tuition charges following the Federal Authorities’s determination to offer pupil loans underneath the NELFUND scheme.
The warning is contained in a press release issued after NANS’s 74th Senate sitting in Kano, a replica of which was made accessible to The PUNCH on Wednesday.
The assertion was signed by Comrade Okunomo Adewumi.
“Any establishment discovered doing so will face the complete wrath and penalties of NANS. We’ll mobilise our members and take decisive motion towards such establishments.
“The management of NANS is able to wage warfare towards any faculty that will increase tuition charges underneath the guise of the scholar mortgage scheme,” the assertion learn partially.
It additionally known as for an instantaneous and drastic discount of tuition charges throughout all tertiary establishments within the nation to cushion the hardship confronted by college students.
On the deliberate mass protests towards the present financial state of affairs, the scholar physique urged its members to stay calm and await the Federal Authorities’s response to its calls for.
“Whereas we perceive the feelings driving the proposed protest by well-meaning Nigerians, we urge our members to stay calm and observe the federal government’s response to our calls for.
“We is not going to hesitate to mobilise if the federal government fails to deal with our considerations. We additionally acknowledge the proper of Nigerians to train their civil rights and won’t stand in the way in which of peaceable protests.
Nonetheless, we is not going to condone any makes an attempt to sabotage the efforts of Nigerians calling on the federal government to take mandatory motion,” it mentioned.
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