Student leaders involved in an accident

It was a bad day for all the tertiary institutions in Delta State as the bus
conveying some of their leaders somersaulted on their way back from NANS convection held in Gombe state. Gbenga Ojo reports.

Delta contingents left Delta State on the14th day of June 2016 to participate in the National Association Nigeria Students (NANS) convection held on Monday at the Pantami stadium in Gombe. The Delta delegates comprises of Petroleum Training Institute Effurun, Student Union Government President, Comrade Isaac Oshivire, Joint Campus Committee secretary  comrade Onokpite and National Association of Polytechnic Students {NAPS} Senate President, Comrade Isaiah Friday, NAPS Senate Clerk Adedotun olomolatan, NAPS Senate Chief
Whips, Comrade Akara Caleb, College of science and Health Technology Mosogar
SUG President,Barnabas Sualla, Delta State Polytechnic Oghara SUG President, Onorode Odjewedje. Federal College of Technology Asaba SUG President, Comrade Jude K, College of Education Warri SUG President, Bikpelle Emmanuel, Ogwashukwu  Polytechnic SUG President, Ekhator Emmanuel, Petroleum Training Institute Effurun, Student Union Government Public Relation Officer, Comrade Nathiel Obulor and NANS zone B action and mobilization, Chuckwudi Maka Y and some others.

The convection was inconclusive and on their way home, they had an ugly
incident due to two tyres of the bus that conveyed them got busted, forcing
the bus to somersaulted, leaving four students injured  around 8:16am at the
entrance of Bauchi.

Speaking with NAPS chief Whip, comrade Akara Caleb told The Actualizers Team that “we thank God that there was no loss of life and the injuries sustained by some of us were minimal.” The Student Union Government President, Comrade Isaac Oshevire said we took the injured students to the University Teaching hospital in Bauchi just to ascertain that there are no internal injuries.

The new Principal of PTI Prof. Sunny Iyuke who met the students at PTI liaison office in Abuja also thanked God that there was no serious injury as he mobilized the
students back to their various campuses.

NANS is the umbrella body of the over 40 million Nigerian students, at home and in the Diasporas. Founded initially as NUNS (the National Union of Nigerian Students) in 1963 before transforming into NANS, the organization is fundamentally at the fore of constructive advocacy for decent, qualitative and affordable education at all levels in Nigeria. It is Also committed to the struggles for democracy, freedom, equality, fairness, justice and progress. NANS is a democratic organization, whose election are governed by convention and constitutional provisions. Leadership ascension in NANS is via a credible, keenly contested and transparent
democratic process.