NANS mourns Deceased UniBen Student, Pledges to Assess Health Facilities on Campuses


The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has described the death of Mr. Austin Okafor, a 300Level student of the University of Benin, as a huge loss to the Association.

The association, in a press release by its National President, Comrade Obande Gideon Obande, describes the death of Mr Okafor as both painful and shameful, being a consequence of the neglect of the health sector.

While commiserating with the family of the deceased, the Association pledged to embark on a fact-finding mission to unravel the remote cause of his death and prevent future occurrence.

"We sympathise with the entire student community and the management of UniBen and by this constitute a committee that will tour all health facilities on our campuses and report to the National secretariat on the steps to be taken to ensure that ugly events as this is prevented from my reoccurring," the statement reads.

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