The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), on Wednesday, handed out a notice of mass actions over the prolonged crisis between the Council of Legal Education, CLE, and National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, following the denial of admission of NOUN graduates to Law School.

NANS said it will begin the action in the Federal Capital Territory from the 27th to 31st August, by shutting down Abuja, the Nation’s capital.



Mr Taiwo Bamigbade, the association’s Nation Vice President of External Affairs, said, “We have decided that enough is enough and shall inevitably shut down the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, against any public activities taking place in the period.”

The association, said the crisis has prevented law graduates of the university from getting admitted into the Nigerian Law School for more than five years now.

According to Bamigbade, the protest would commence on August 27 and would be in two phases. He also stated that the association wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari before now, notifying him of the crisis.

We recall that on May 23, the association had earlier issued a three month ultimatum to the Federal Government to admit the Law graduates from NOUN into the Nigerian Law School.

The union said “it amounts to fraud, deceit, discrimination and mischief against the Nigerian students and inhumanity to vulnerable citizens, especially the youths to formally admit, graduate and issue them deficient certificates after several years of study despite financial implication.”

The Vice President of NANS, said that the first phase of the protest would be held for 5 days and will take place in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, while the second phase will take place on October 1st.

Recalling the judgment of Justice Hilary Oshomah of the Federal High Court, Port-Harcourt, Rivers, on October 4 , 2017, which asked the National Universities Commission (NUC), Council of Legal Education (CLE) and the Federal Ministry of Education to resolve the crisis.

However, the decision of the court did not go down well with the NOUN, Law Graduates Forum, which stated that the court unconsciously renounced its jurisdiction on all academic and students’ matters.

Source: Journalng.com

https://journalng.com/2018/08/22/nans-stage-5-day-protest-abuja-august-27/