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NANS threatens to shut Ede Poly over expulsion of students
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Southwest yesterday gave the Federal Government a five-day ultimatum to remove the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, Dr Sani Man Yahaya, over what the body called the illegal expulsion of students from the polytechnic.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Southwest Coordinator of NANS, John Alao; the zone’s Secretary-General, Sanni Sulaimon Olamide; and the Public Relations Officer, Oluwadamilola Bamigboye.
NANS said the recent expulsion of students who had peacefully protested on May 9, 2024, was a flagrant violation of their fundamental rights. It said the students were exercising their right to protest against legitimate concerns, and ‘’their expulsion without due process or fair hearing is a severe breach of justice and equity’’.
It said the five-day ultimatum, starting August 5 to 9, 2024, aims to correct this injustice and that failure to do so will result in the institution’s shutdown on Monday, August 12.
The student leaders said: “The leadership of NANS Southwest is issuing a stern ultimatum to the Federal Government regarding the unlawful expulsion of students from Federal Polytechnic, Ede. We demand the immediate removal of the current Rector, Dr Sani Man Yahaya, who has orchestrated this unjust action against our members. This five-day ultimatum starts from August 5 to August 9, 2024. Monday to Friday aims to correct this gross injustice, failing which we will mobilise to shut down the institution on Monday, August 12, 2024.
Reacting, the Media and Public Relations Officer of the institution, Sola Lawal, said: “You would recall that the management of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State constituted an investigation committee to unravel the mysteries surrounding the students’ crisis/rampage of Thursday, May 9, leading to the stoning of people at the senior staff club.
“The unprovoked attitude led to the vandalisation of individual and institution’s properties. This unwarranted action negates the motto of the great citadel, which is ‘knowledge, skill and character’.
“After a painstaking and thorough investigation, the following decisions were reached: 27 Higher National Diploma [HND] 1 and 2 students were expelled, eight HND 2 students were suspended for two academic sessions, and two former student union leaders were banned from entering the two campuses with immediate effect.”
No fewer than 24 people were killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, police and other officials told Reuters.
Pakistan is grappling with a surge in strikes by separatist ethnic militants in the south and Islamist militants in its northwest.
Inspector general of police for Balochistan, Mouzzam Jah Ansari, said 24 people have died from the blast so far.
The target was army personnel from the Infantry School,” he said, with many of the injured in critical condition.
“So far 44 injured people have been brought to civil hospital,” Dr. Wasim Baig, a hospital spokesman, told Reuters.
Senior superintendent of police operations, Muhammad Baloch, said the blast seemed to be a suicide bomb and that investigations were underway for more information.
“The blast took place inside the railway station when the Peshawar-bound express was about to leave for its destination,” Baloch said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast at Quetta’s main railway station, which is usually busy early in the day.
In August, at least 73 people were killed in Balochistan province after separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines and highways.
The assaults in August were the most widespread in years by militants fighting a decades-long insurgency to win secession of the resource-rich southwestern province, home to major China-led projects such as a port and a gold and copper mine.
Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested two Chinese siblings: Wang Jiang and Wang Richard for allegedly making efforts to export some solid minerals without requisite permit.
While Jiang was arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport ,Enugu, the rest, including two Nigerians, Donatus Agupusi and Michael Benneth Agu, were arrested at the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the EFCC.
Their arrest followed an intelligence received by the Commission through the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN on November 3, 2024 involving Jiang who was intercepted at the hold baggage screening point, where unidentified suspicious stones believed to be solid minerals wrapped in three different pieces were discovered in his luggage.
Preliminary investigations into the matter revealed that Agupusi, owner of Great Wall Construction Limited, is the employer of the remaining suspects. Investigation also revealed that Jiang was attempting to travel out of the country with the solid minerals in order to carry out some tests on them in China.
Investigations further revealed that none of the four suspects had a permit to export the solid minerals to China.
The suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.
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