New Factional President of NANS Pledges Commitment To Rights Of Students

The new factional President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Abdulmajeed Oyeniyi, has pledged commitment to the rights and privileges of students, at a news conference on Friday in Abuja.

He said the election which saw his emergence as factional president was supervised by the convention planning committee.

He promised to create a platform where there would be proper engagement and dialogue between students and managements of academic institutions, corporate organisations and government.

On the alleged mass failure in the result of the just concluded UTME examinations, he said that he had already led a discussion with the management of JAMB where they made it clear that the decline in the results was not their fault.

He said that it was not true that JAMB was interested in frustrating admission seekers and parents through the mass failure.

He revealed that during the meeting with the management led by the Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the board confirmed that it does not have the powers to reduce or increase the results of the examination, while assuring that the poor results this year will not reduce the chances for admission.

He urged admission seekers and parents to exercise patience, stressing that JAMB has only done the ranking for tertiary institutions to conduct admission for the next academic session.