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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) President, Comrade Umar Barambu has dissolved the Convention Planning Committee (CPC) of the association. NANS, the umbrella body of students of tertiary institutions in Nigeria, is expected to elect a new set of national leaders. The CPC is the electoral commission of the association.

The warring factions of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) stormed the National Hospital in Abuja in protest of alleged delays by medical personnel in treating colleagues injured during a NANS factional crisis earlier on Friday. Several patients were forced to flee their hospital wards and beds as a result of the NANS factions' violent attack. Meanwhile, police officers are currently at the hospital in a bid to restore law and order.

A fresh crisis has engulfed the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) as a group of members accused the association’s President, Usman Umar Barambu, of working for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar during last Saturday’s presidential election.  The members led by Ibrahim Suleiman Mubarak, Chairman, NANS Unity Forum accused the president of getting involved in politics. Barambu had two days to the election claimed the association would not endorse any of...

The newly elected leaders of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) will be meeting the Nigerian government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) towards ending the eight-month-old strike by university lecturers. The new NANS president, Comrade Umar Barambu, disclosed this during an exclusive interview with SaharaReporters on Saturday. Barambu, a student of Economics and Development Studies of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, was on Saturday declared the N...

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has elected Comrade Umar Barambu from the Federal University, Dutse  as its new President. Barambu, a student of Economics and Development Studies got 292 votes to defeat his closest rival, Umar Farouk Lawan who scored only 8 votes. The election was held at the old parade ground, Abuja. Barambu is a former students’ union president, joint campus committee chairman and Zone A cordinator. He is to succeed Asefon Sunday Dayo, the outgoing NANS...