Crisis rocks Federal College of Education as NANS and SUG clash

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The Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka, Lagos, is embroiled in a heated crisis between the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Joint Campus Council, Lagos State, and the institution’s Students’ Union Government (SUG). The conflict centres on allegations of leadership failure, infrastructural decay, and student welfare neglect.

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NANS JCC Lagos issued a press statement accusing the college management of “deliberately snubbing” its delegation and alleging that the institution was “running on autopilot” under a management “battling administrative failures.” In response, SUG President Comrade Junaid Michael described the NANS statement as “misleading, unfounded, and unpatriotic”.

Michael explained that the NANS team, led by Abdul-Raheem Abdul-Quadri, failed to follow due protocol by not submitting a formal letter through the SUG office. He stated, “I informed the NANS chairman that, in line with institutional protocol, such a request must be formally submitted through the office of the Students’ Union President to enable proper communication with the said officials.”

The SUG president condemned the allegations of institutional neglect, saying, “While it is true that our institution has faced challenges as is common with many public institutions across the country, it is false and malicious to state that the school is ‘running on autopilot’ or that the welfare of students has been completely abandoned.”

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However, NANS JCC Lagos dismissed Michael’s rejoinder as a “scripted response” allegedly authored by college authorities. The group alleged that the management coerced the SUG into issuing the statement to downplay the crisis.

NANS also raised concerns about campus security, questioning the reduction of armed security officers from nine to three since the fatal shooting of a student in 2019. They demanded that the college management explain why the security presence had been reduced without proper replacements.

The student body called for immediate action from the Federal Ministry of Education, demanding a neutral fact-finding team to investigate infrastructural decay, student welfare challenges, and abuse of office. NANS warned that it would no longer issue warnings but would instead “move to expose and demand justice.

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