The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has urged President Bola Tinubu to, as a matter of urgency, address the hardship, especially hunger confronting Nigerians.
The student association declared that economic deprivation is killing the people.
The NANS Clerk of the Senate, Abdulyekinn Odunayo, made the call in a statement released in Abeokuta on Saturday.
Odunayo lamented that the current administration has forced Nigerians to endure needless poverty and hunger.
According to the statement, the Tinubu-led government’s simultaneous elimination of fuel subsidies and floating of the national currency has further sunk Nigerians into economic despair, increased hunger and hiking the cost of living for millions of residents.
Odunayo acknowledged that some students have benefited from the student loan program implemented by Tinubu’s administration, but he called for a complete economic reform so that Nigerians can experience the good governance that the…