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Socialist Democracy March 2004

The NANS Joint Campus Committee (JCC) of Ondo and Ekiti states that has been in a state of moribund for the past five years was re-awakened at a massively attended convention held in Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) on the 15th of January, 2004.

Among other things, the convention:

(1) Condemned the imposition of management stooges in form of caretaker committee on the students by the Adeboyeje administration in Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo.

(2) Directed that Students' Union elections should be conducted in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko in the first semester, 2003/2004. It also condemned the astronomical increase in late registration fee from N500 to N2,500 at the same university.

(3) Called for the establishment of Independent Student Unionism in Ondo State School of Health Technology, Akure.

(4) Rejected the proposed increase in the cost of bed space from N90 to minimum of N10,000 in the Federal Government institutions.

(5) Kicked against the neo-liberal policies of President Olusegun Obasanjo e.g. deregulation, privatisation, commercialisation of education sector, etc.

Election was also conducted and the following activists were elected: Chairman, John Akinmurele (St. John), A.A.U Akungba Akoko, Ondo State; Vice Chairman, Dare Akinsola, a member of DSM, University of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State; General Secretary, Thomas Olamide, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State; Public Relations Officer, Ayo Akingbulu, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Ondo-State.

Socialist Democracy March 2004