Famuyibo Oluwasegun Celebrates NANS @ 40

NANS @ 40: Hello NANS!!!

The National Association Of Nigerian Students (NANS) is the apex body of all students in higher institutions of learning in Nigeria & abroad.

The body over the four decades as being the lone voice, championing the course of a better welfarism for Nigerian students.

It is on record, while many (novice) bad mouths the organization, even when most of them benefit from her struggles, the spirit that binds her members and leaders is stronger than what divides them.

The struggles of the late leader Segun Okeowo, Moses Osakede, Donald Onakuogu, Africa of OAU, Yemi Likedat and many other comrades who laid their lives for the struggle for a better Education in Nigeria is still fresh in our memory, even though the memories were sweet, some will still not see any good in NANS.

In the early nineties & twenties, the likes of Micheal Opeyemi Bamidele (MOB), Yinka Dada (Saddam), Femi Osabinu (Femi Struggle), Jude Imagwe, Mohammed Dauda (Capon), Yinka Gbadebo (Ayefele), Tijani Usman, and many others have led one struggle or the other towards the liberation of Nigerian students.

Taking the bull by the horn, NANS, no matter how badly portrayed, NANS has done well in the last four decades till date, even as much as Government's influences her to do their bidding, the organization is still taking holistic steps to assert her independence.

Talking about her independence, does NANS have any means of survival, before saying NANS is bad, have you thought of how to help her regain financial freedom? Have you asked yourself on whose bill does NANS do press release, campus tour, zonal convention, National conventions, Senate meetings and the rest of her day to day activities.

To me, the organization is trying her best in building leaders and we can see it today, hardly will you see an SA to the Governor of a State that is not NANS oriented, we have NANS breed at the National assemblies and other government portfolios, we have them in the academic field also, and yet NANS has maintained her sanctity.

Both the struggle and the business of the organization is important, if and only if we can change our notion and stop seeing the bad sides alone, the NANS that we all want to see will manifest in no distance time.

As we approach another transition process, take into cognizance experience, ideology, self dignity & respect, more importantly the need for a resurged NANS.

Happy Anniversary to the largest Student movement in Sub Sahara Africa, long live NANS!

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