By Divinelove Udorji| December 01, 2016

The President, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Aruna Kadiri has reiterated his position on NANS awards, as the award which is issued by the apex student body to only well deserving individuals who have made tremendous impacts on youths, students and the society at large had in the past years lost it salt.

Comrade Kadiri who decried the way and manner at which the awards had been politicized in the past and issued to undeserving individuals gave the assurance of bringing back the sanity and prestige of NANS award.

Findings had revealed that NANS award which was once an award held in the highest esteem and issued to only well deserving individuals in the society but unfortunately in previous years it was allowed to erode as NANS awards became politicized.

In fact, some leadership of the association in the past had even resulted to exchanging the award for money and gifts, thereby denigrating the prestigious award to the bin.

However while speaking to this reporter, Comrade Kadiri revealed that NANS award under his administration would take a totally new dimension.

“NANS under me have stopped giving awards in bits. We are arranging it in a way that it will have the value and recognition that it deserves. We will pencil down their names and prior to the day it will be aired and will be on national dailies,” he said.

“It will be once in a year where it will be nationally done. The question now is what has been his/her contribution to the development of NANS, youths and students,” Kadiri added.

President Kadiri who has distinguished himself as NANS redeemer and who is poised at restoring the association' lost glory and integrity as the association is meant to serve as the voice of the voiceless on campus, regional and national matters and devoid of external control, further added that “it's not all about the money, integrity matters more to me”.

•Divinelove Udorji, is a Mass Communication student of Nasarawa State University, Keffi

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