The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has entreated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to strike out the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, from the board of the proposed Student Loan Board.
Tinubu had signed the Student Loan Bill into law, with representative of ASUU listed among others to sit on the board.
On Tuesday, NANS delegation led by the body’s National President, Umar Barambu met with President Tinubu at the Villa on the subject.
Emerging from the meeting Barambu told State House Correspondents what transpired between them, among which is NANS asking the President to remove ASUU from the board.
“We thank the President for the Students Loan Bill.
“We have outlined the clauses that we are not too comfortable with. And part of them is the issue of that board that we mentioned to the President, which we said at least students’ representatives should be captured and there are some organisations that they put there, which to us, they don’t need to be there.
“We gave him an example, most especially the Nigerian Bar Association, ASUU. ASUU has its own microfinance bank running their own affairs without students on their board. So, I don’t think it’s wise for us to allow them to be inside our own board because it is purely students.
“We are the major stakeholders of that bank. So I don’t think allowing them to be there is good. Not only them, we mentioned a lot of people that they should remove and put more of student-oriented organisation,” he remarked.
