Advocacy for Medical Rehabilitation of Rescued Zamfara Students
Commended security forces for rescuing kidnapped students in Zamfara State while demanding comprehensive medical and psychological rehabilit…
What We've Done
Our Achievements
Concrete milestones, policy victories, and welfare wins delivered for Nigerian students through sustained advocacy.
Resistance Against Anti-Student Fee Deferment at FU Wukari
Stood firmly against Federal University Wukari management's forced deferment policy affecting over 5,000 students awaiting NELFUND disbursem…
Ogbomosho Abducted Students Solidarity
The Akinteye administration led nationwide solidarity walks and high-level advocacy demanding the immediate release of abducted students in…
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…
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…
Restoration of Student Unions Nationwide
NANS successfully campaigned for the restoration of student unions at institutions where they had been proscribed by university authorities,…
#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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
"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…