The newly elected Presi
dent of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Tonye Tom-George, has declared that in his tenure, students in Nigerian tertiary institutions will seek to check increase in fees.
According to him, the students will also not tolerate what he called “hardship fees for non-indigenous students” and also wage war against racism.
Comrade Tom-George, who made the declaration  at the “Aluta House” Secretariat, University of Port Harcourt (Uniport), recently stated this as part of his cardinal goals for his tenure as NANs president.
Other targets he hopes to accomplish are: to organize sports festival for Nigerian students “in order to forestall disunity among the entire Nigerian students and showcase our sporting skills”.
His leadership, he continued, will “appeal to telecommunications companies for Information Communication Technology (ICT) compliant centres in our schools to enhance research and help in assignments, seminars and projects”.
They will also ensure protection for Nigerian students staying off campus against shylock landlords and will work for discounts for students with identity cards on transportation.
The students will also appeal to the Federal Government to give Scholarships to former Student Union Government (SUG) presidents in their institutions after their tenures.
“This government will promote healthy environmental policy where he will appeal to the government and school managements for fumigation of our campuses, supply of mosquito nets to students in the hostels, ensure that the convenience/rest rooms in our schools are clean and the surroundings devoid of reptiles.
“We will organize, through the SUGs orientation programmes for new students in order for them to acclimatize with events that will unfold in institutions”, he said.
Above all, Comrade Tom-George said the leadership of NANs under his tenure “will promote students welfare and socio-economic development”.