You do not represent Nigerian students. You represent whoever put that cap on your head. Nigerian students are not blind to what you are, and history will not be kind to those who traded the welfare of millions for personal access to power.
NANS Has Become a Disgrace to Nigerian Students
There is something insulting about watching the President of the so called National Association of Nigerian Students stand before cameras, donning an APC-branded cap, and singing praises of an administration that has made student life unbearable. It is not even surprising. It is, exactly what we expect from an association that has long abandoned its mandate and surrendered its soul to political paymasters.
When a student leader speaks in glowing terms about a government while wearing the ruling party's colours, he is not speaking for students. He is speaking for whoever funded his trip, his cap, and definitely, his position.
This is the face of the modern NANS, a political errand boy dressed in student clothing.
"We the Nigerian Students have never had it so good like the way we have it under President Tinubu."
LEMAAOOO!! This isn't just laughable, it is a deliberate slap in the face of every student struggling to survive in this country today. Let us examine the reality these leaders are too comfortable to acknowledge:
1. Tuition fees have skyrocketed. Universities across Nigeria have implemented massive fee hikes, with some institutions multiplying their charges severalfold — all under the banner of "go and collect NELFUND." Students are being pushed into a debt cycle before they even enter the labour market, a market that has nothing to offer them anyway. NELFUND, rather than being a genuine relief, has become a convenient justification for the systematic defunding of public education.
2. Education subsidies have been gutted. The removal of subsidies has transferred the full burden of education costs onto families already crushed by inflation, a collapsed naira, and the devastating aftermath of fuel subsidy removal. A student's parent who used to spend a manageable amount per session is now spending multiples of that — if they can at all.
3. Students cannot afford basic necessities. Food costs have doubled and tripled. Accommodation, once a basic student right, is now a luxury. Hostel fees have risen beyond the reach of many. Those who manage to secure a room off-campus face electricity bills that consume whatever little they have. Students are going to bed hungry in a country whose government officials cannot stop celebrating their own achievements.
4. Kidnapping, insecurity, and violence are ravaging campuses and the roads students travel. Nigerian students are being abducted. Some are killed. Lives are destroyed. And from NANS? Silence. Not a press release. Not a protest. Not a candle. Nothing. Because their paymasters do not fund statements that embarrass the administration.
5. NANS has not produced a single meaningful initiative in over a decade. No credible welfare programme. No legal advocacy. No successful push for student representation in policy-making. They do not negotiate for students, they negotiate with politicians, for themselves. They show up at rallies, issue endorsements, and collect the rewards. The association has become a conveyor belt for political patronage, recycling compromised leadership every cycle.
The tragedy is that NANS was once feared. It was once a voice. Under genuine student leaders, it shut down governments, forced policy reversals, and made those in power remember that the youth of this country were watching. That NANS is dead. What remains is a hollow shell, a group of political foot soldiers who wear student identity as a costume when it suits their ambitions.
In a way, I still think NANS has not fallen, it was sold. And the receipt is that APC cap.
Rubb!sh
I have never believed that my destiny is in the hands of anyone or my help must come from anyone, I live my life as it comes and I don’t let people walk over me because of “help in the future”
I don’t see any man advocating for this boy; instead, they are all hailing him. How old is this boy? What is his medical condition? Is he fit to be married to an older woman? You men are just there looking and laughing without asking these questions.
If this were a female, women would speak up for her. Feminists would not allow a lady in this condition to be married to an older man.
This is why men’s campaign for the boy child is performative. You people only speak up when women call out abuse.
I’m not crying… Y’ALL are 😭🥹 First thing I see on TikTok is a girl who moved in with her friend for 6 months just to get her life together. Friend told her rent was $350, she paid $400 anyway.
When it was time to move out… the friend handed her ALL $2,400 BACK 😭 and said she never needed the money, it was just to help her SAVE and go handle her business.
MY GOD 🥹 THIS is what love looks like. THIS is grace. THIS is being human.
Please my baby sister has been kidnapped and I genuinely don’t know what to do. She travelled from Lagos to the east(Nnewi to be precise) and we haven’t heard from her until they called with her number and started demanding for ransom. I’m going crazy, someone please help
Please twitter. I’ve been looking for my mom she hasn’t come home since from work, and her colleagues said she wasn’t at work. Please help me find her. Please I beg of you.
OMO OBA ADESILE!🔥
A true woman of culture, style and elegance.
Attended Ojude Oba 2025 to show y’all a glimpse of Princess Adesile’s unforgettable Ojude journey✨
All thanks to EXNAFRICA and @oacthecreator for making it happen❤️
A lot happened to me at Ojude Oba 2025, but I never gave up. I knew I had so many women looking up to me, and a whole crowd that came just to see me ride.
At one point, someone grabbed onto my horse to keep them from falling, and it completely tore my under-belt, which was already loose from all the sweat. The heat was intense. I nearly passed out several times while waiting for my family’s turn to enter the Pavilion.
But the moment I approached the gate and heard “Princess Adesile” echoing from every corner… I knew I couldn’t give up.
This time, I didn’t just want to look pretty, I wanted to show the world that women can do way more than just that.
So I rode into the Pavilion without an under-belt, reared multiple times, and still gave a powerful display.
At the end of it all, I gave my best, and I left a message that will never be forgotten.
In yaba market alone, you can’t walk without multiple men touching you. If you tell one off, the others will see it as an invitation because “Wetin dey your body wey man no fit touch?” You people invalidating her story are very sick in the head.
What happened today 22nd March 2025 at Awoyaya, Abule Parapo Community, Lewu-Odo, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State. This would be a long post, please read and share, we still need help. #lagosstate#lagosstatehousing#30DaysRantChallenge
What happened today 22nd March 2025 at Awoyaya, Abule Parapo Community, Lewu-Odo, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State. This would be a long post, please read and share, we still need help. #lagosstate#lagosstatehousing#30DaysRantChallenge
Lagos state government pleaseee😭😭❤️ this house is all my mother has @jidesanwoolu@followlasg@aproko_doctor@mrmacaroni they sent a letter 2 days ago and we went to alausa to ask what the letter was for, which they later gave us 2 weeks to sort out. It is not up to a week😭
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