Education
NANS Wants Youths, Students In National Confab
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS),Rivers State chapter has called on the Federal Government to consider NANS members in the proposed national dialogue.
The Chairman of NANS, Rivers State and the Joint Campuses Committee, Comrade Lah Amabu and a member of NANS, 2013 convention planning committee, Comrade Owhorkire Rhino made the call in a statement signed and made available to The Tide in Port Harcourt last Friday.
The statement said youths and students were the future leaders of the country and therefore should be given a voice in the national dialogue.
It also commended the federal government in its current approach to resolve the on-going Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike, stressing that adequate attention should be given to the education sector in the country to prevent future strikes because, “education is the right of Nigerian students and not a privilege.”
The students body also used the forum to plead with politicians to play the game according to the rule in the course of pursuing their divergent views for the general well-being and peace of the people in the country and Rivers State in particular.
It stated that, “the student movement as a vanguard of democracy and beckons of hope to the oppressed is no more comfortable with the level of impunity currently going on in River State. NANS used this medium to sue for peace. The students body has confirmed this administration and its policies as pro-people, thus we must all support the government.”
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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