NELFUND Expansion — ₦2.9 Billion Disbursed in 2026
Through sustained advocacy and partnership with NELFUND, the Akinteye administration helped expand federal loan disbursements to over ₦2.9 b…
What We've Done
Our Achievements
Concrete milestones, policy victories, and welfare wins delivered for Nigerian students through sustained advocacy.
Assertion of Institutional Independence
The current Akinteye administration has reaffirmed NANS's institutional independence by publicly resisting attempts at political co-optation…
Ogbomosho Abducted Students Solidarity
The Akinteye administration led nationwide solidarity walks and high-level advocacy demanding the immediate release of abducted students in…
Historic Digital NANS Election — 2026
Comrade Akinteye Babatunde Afeez was elected in May 2026 through the NANS Central Planning Committee (CPC) digital platform — marking a hist…
SUG–Management Relationship Reforms
The Oladoja administration focused on mending relationships between local Student Union Governments and university management nationwide, me…
NELFUND Adoption Expansion Drive
Under Comrade Olushola Oladoja's leadership (2025–2026), NANS aggressively promoted NELFUND adoption nationwide, successfully bridging commu…
NELFUND Partnership Secured
The Emonefe administration secured a vital formal partnership with the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), publicly endorsing its transp…
Opposition to 2023 Tuition Hike Wave
NANS organised coordinated nationwide protests against the wave of tuition increases at federal universities in mid-2023, leading to fee red…
Student Loan Act — Historic Legislative Victory
NANS's decades-long advocacy for a structured student loan scheme culminated in the signing of the Access to Higher Education Act (Student L…
Uninterrupted Academic Calendar Achievement
Under Comrade Lucky Emonefe's leadership (2023–2025), NANS oversaw a rare period of uninterrupted academic calendars without nationwide stri…
Historic Resolution of 2022 ASUU Strike
NANS played the most prominent civil society mediator role in resolving the historic 8-month ASUU strike of 2022, organising the "Education…
Mediation of 2020 ASUU Strike
Under the Comrade Sunday Ashefon administration (2020–2022), NANS actively engaged in high-level negotiations to end the prolonged 2020 ASUU…
#EndSARS Movement Mobilization
NANS officially endorsed and led student participation in the #EndSARS movement of October 2020, with the national leadership joining protes…
COVID-19 Student Emergency Relief
During the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020, NANS coordinated emergency food and financial relief for stranded students nationwide, distributing pa…
National Hostel Crisis Conference
Organised the first National Conference on the Hostel Crisis in Nigerian Universities in 2018, leading to Public-Private Partnership (PPP) f…
Restoration of Student Unions Nationwide
NANS successfully campaigned for the restoration of student unions at institutions where they had been proscribed by university authorities,…
Establishment of NANS Welfare Directorate
Formally created a Welfare Directorate at the national level to coordinate emergency assistance, mental health awareness, and structured fin…
#BringBackOurGirls Advocacy
Following the April 2014 abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, NANS organised the "Bring Back Our Girls" student march in Abuja and several s…
Mediation of 2013 ASUU Strike
NANS played a pivotal mediator role in resolving the 5-month ASUU strike of 2013, including organising the "Save Our Education" campaign tha…
Nationwide Anti-Cultism Campaign
In 2012, NANS launched a comprehensive nationwide anti-cultism campaign in partnership with the Nigeria Police Force and tertiary institutio…
Occupy Nigeria Leadership — January 2012
NANS was a leading voice in the historic "Occupy Nigeria" protests of January 2012 against the removal of fuel subsidy. The association mobi…
FRSC Student ID Card Recognition
NANS successfully advocated for the formal recognition of institutional student ID cards as valid identification at FRSC checkpoints and gov…
Establishment of TETFund Advocacy
NANS contributed to the advocacy efforts that led to the transformation of the Education Tax Fund into the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TE…
Mediation of 2006 ASUU Strike
NANS played a critical mediator role in the 2006 ASUU strike, holding multiple stakeholder meetings with the Federal Ministry of Education,…
Blocking the Hostel Privatization Policy — 2004
When the Federal Government attempted to cease maintaining student hostels in 2004 — a policy that would have driven hostel fees from ₦90 to…
Six-Zone Structural Reorganization
In the early 2000s, NANS was comprehensively restructured into six geopolitical zones (Zones A through F) to mirror Nigeria's political stru…
Survival Through Military Crackdown
Despite the Abacha military government's repeated proscription orders and brutal crackdowns on student activism throughout the mid-1990s, NA…
June 12 Pro-Democracy Movement Leadership
Between 1992 and 1998, led by figures like Omoyele Sowore (UNILAG SUG President), NANS became the frontline civilian resistance during the J…
Anti-SAP Riots Victory — 1989
Led by Comrade Lukman Salilu Mohammed, NANS organised the massive 1989 Anti-SAP (Structural Adjustment Programme) Riots, issuing a 10-point…
Response to the ABU Massacre
After security forces killed protesting students at Ahmadu Bello University in 1986, NANS declared nationwide mourning and instigated coordi…
Resistance to Declining Education Funding
Under successive presidents Chris Mammah and Chris Abashi (1981–1983), NANS consolidated structures across expanding campuses, fiercely resi…
Formation of NANS as Apex Student Body
Following the lifting of the ban on NUNS by President Shehu Shagari in 1980, the student body regrouped and was officially re-established as…
"Ali Must Go" Protests — Challenging Fee Hikes
In 1978, when the federal government imposed drastic fee hikes targeting tertiary education, NUNS led nationwide campus protests under the i…
Founding of NUNS — Nigeria's First Unified Student Body
In 1956, the National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) was founded by student councils from the University of Ife, Zaria, and Nsukka — mode…