FG To Scrap NANS - Chukwuemerie Uduchukwu

By Chukwuemerie Uduchukwu

I think it is time to scrap this association of political thugs and non-academic students known as the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). I know that undergraduates of Nigerian universities are entitled to unionism but the situation whereby such is hijacked by non-academic students and touts should be condemned. I am yet to see an impact of this shameless association on the academic lives and well being of Nigerian undergraduates. It is even unfortunate that some touts that are not undergraduates impersonate the students to seek for material gains from greedy politicians.

It is also shocking to notice that persons that have already graduated from higher institutions still parade themselves as senators or representatives of undergraduates, what a criminality! I can bet the fact that majority of undergraduates don’t even know what NANS stands for.

The federal government should deal with any group that is championing any form of protest with the name of Nigerian Students. Which students’ congress authorised such protest and how many students are aware of the proposed protest?

What every visionless and fraudulent group should note is that such ridiculous and baseless proposed act (protest) cannot distract a government that has the political and moral will of fighting corruption from doing so. As long as President Buhari is determined to fight corruption, such fraudulent proposed protests can’t distract him.

Senate President Bukola Saraki should appear before the tribunal if he has no skeleton in his cupboard. If he feels that he is a victim of witch-hunt, he should disgrace his hunters at the tribunal with facts that will prove his innocence. If we must fight corruption, there should be no sacred cow.

Comments

BUHARI: TURNING APPOINTMENTS INTO DISAPPOINTMENTS

By Jaafar Jaafar Ponder over this Hausa proverb: “sawun keke ba’a gane gabanka”, which roughly translates to “a bicycle’s contact patch does not tell where it comes from or where it heads to”, and see how it aptly describes Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari. Bearing in mind the current realities in our polity, how would you, in your wildest dream, think the Secretary to the Government of the Federation will come from the North? The very North that has a President, a Senate President, a Speaker, a Head of Service, a Chief of Staff, a Chief Justice, and what not? While Mr. President is likened to the proverbial “sawun keke”, the pigmentation of his appointments may be likened to “birgimar hankaka”, literally meaning the wallow of a pied crow. When a pied crow wallows, the Hausa say, you will see both the white patch on its gullet and the black plumage that covers most of the bird’s body. In the appointment of the GMD of NNPC, President Buhari showed Nigeria...

DSS Arrest Over 15 Key Boko Haram Members Across Nigeria - Tony Opuiyo

No fewer than 15 key members of the boko haram sect were arrested across Nigeria by the operatives of the DSS. According to a statement by a DSS official, Tony Opuiyo, said the infiltration of the terrorists into other states was a fallout of the pressure being put on the terrorists in their core areas of strength in the North-east. The statement by the DSS ; In line with the Department of State Services’, DSS, re-strategised Counter Terrorism measures to combat the menace of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, the Service has continued to make significant breakthroughs in this direction. This followed the rounding up of notable commanders and frontline members of the notorious group from different parts of the country. It should be noted that the group’s new pattern of movement and spread is necessitated by the pressure being put on them in their core areas of strength in the North East. 2. Consequently, a number of them have been arrested in Lagos, Kano, Pla...

Okro Soup Issues By Sonala Olumhense

Once upon another life, I was attending a literature conference at the University of Calabar when a friend of mine took interest in one of the students. He thought his best chance was through the front door: ask her out. But a friend of hers thought differently, and she asked me share this wisdom with my friend: “If you want to eat Okro soup,” she counseled, “you don’t go diving into the middle!” I advised my friend accordingly. He thought about it for a while. “They have Okro soup politics here?” he asked me. “So exactly how do they eat Okro soup?” I told him what I was told: “First, you eat around the plate!” He didn’t take too kindly to the advice, as he mumbled some indistinct philosophy about desiring to meet Okro with hunger, or something like that. It did not occur to me at the time to question my interlocutor as to whether the approach to eating Ogbono, Nigeria’s pre-eminent soup that is similar to Okro, was different under that same wor...

Extra Reporters

Search This Blog