Breaking: Police teargas Students, arrests NANS president for protesting unilateral sack of 13 VCs
Education News Politics Top Storiesabout 1 hour ago

The National President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Tijani Usman was Thursday arrested by security operatives after leading a protest to challenge the unconventional sack of 13 university Vice Chancellors and their unilateral replacement by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Only nine of the 13 had exhausted their tenures.
The security agency which descended violently on protesters and journalists arrested Usman while leading a blockade of the entrance of the Federal Ministry of Education. They were sitting at the entrance of the ministry when policemen began to teargas them.
The students who described the sack and replacement as illegal called for the reversal of the developments.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu told reporters thereafter that no decision of the government will be reversed because somebody somewhere feels aggrieved.
“Some have made presentations and reservations and they are being looked at,” he said.
On Wednesday, Civil rights organisations shut down the entrance of the National Assembly and Ministry of Education in Abuja where they submitted petitions asking Buhari to rescind the sack.
The protesters described the sack as illegal.
Chairman of the coalition, Bassey Williams Etuk, called on President Muhammdu Buhari to relieve the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, of his appointment “because he knows nothing”.
According to Etuk, the sacking of the VCs and their replacement with people mostly from the North violated the federal character principles.
One of their placards reads: “Six Professors were taken from Bayero University, Kano as replacement… Haba! Why?”
They chanted solidarity songs, including: Adamu must go, reinstate the sacked VCs now and Nigeria needs a better administrator in the Education Ministry.”
A petition to the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, was received on their behalf by the National Assembly Deputy Sergeant-At-Arms, Dennis Maaji.
The group gave the Minister 48 hours to reverse the sack and resign his appointment “because he doesn’t seem to understand the working of University system and administration”.
Etuk said the coalition would be heading to court to stop the sack as the tenure of five of the sacked VCs were yet to expire.
The protesters also barricaded the Federal Ministry of Education located at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja.
Etuk said: “The minister does not have any right to call for the sack of 13 Vice Chancellors.
“Nine of the 13 sacked Vice Chancellors, their tenure was to expire this last Monday.
“But four, their tenure is still running.
“Some have two years, some have one year and six months.
“What he did, which is most disrespectful to the laws of the land, is that he appointed six people, his friends, from one university.
“He appointed six professors from one university, Bayero University, Kano, and he posted them to different tertiary institutions.
“Not only that, he also appointed two professors from Katsina State, making it eight friends from the just two states in North.
“We came here to tell him that Nigeria is not a sectional country.
“We are one indivisible Nigeria, nobody should separate us.
“Nobody should play sentiments with our economy and education sectors.
“The academic community has been here even before the minister was born.
“He cannot come and change it.
“Our appeal to him is to honourably reverse the decision
“Let’s agree with him that what he did was wrong, that he did it in a haste.
“We are here to tell him that he should please reserve that decision within 48 hours with immediate effects.
“If does not do that under 48 hours, we will call for his resignation.”
Etuk said the coalition would be heading to court to stop the sack as the tenure of five of the sacked VCs
http://nigeriantimes.ng/news/breaking-police-teargas-students-arrests-nans-president-for-protesting-unilateral-sack-of-13-vcs/

So nobody is allowed to protest?
Its a civil right of every human being.

The tear gas no be small.. just flying like a war zone.

Can't there e a peaceful protest anymore?

Did the NANS President obtain police clearance before the protest?

I strongly doubt it, else there would be no grounds for his arrest, for the stated reason, by the Police authorities.

Hmmmmmm has d right to peaceful protest revoked?

Dis Administration in on a long tin

2019 election loading with 13 new APshit VC appointment,remember Yeyegun wants APshit to take over inec.

fulanimafia:
Did the NANS President obtain police clearance before the protest?

I strongly doubt it, else there would be no grounds for his arrest, for the stated reason, by the Police authorities.

The issue of police clearance has been dealt with by the court and so holding a peaceful protest is legal.

The era is back.
I no wan talk much.

Some of us saw it coming.

Others perceived the smell smelling like 'body odor'.

Others were scammed into casting their votes for the return of the 'era'.

Behold it's here.

God bless the President for clamping down on those rats. May God grant him iron fists to whoop Nigerians into line.

SAI CHANGI, SAI BABA the despotic tyrant

1984 LOADING.....

Is that the solution to dwindling economy?



Dollar flying like air

Ecoterrorism:
The issue of police clearance has been dealt with by the court and so holding a peaceful protest is legal.

What are you talking about?

If he did not receive police clearance prior to the protest, his arrest is quite valid as he would be constituting a public nuisance and flouting the laid down process for embarking on a public protest of any kind.

fulanimafia:
Did the NANS President obtain police clearance before the protest?

I strongly doubt it, else there would be no grounds for his arrest, for the stated reason, by the Police authorities.

Police permit is not a requirement of law before anyone exercises fundamental right of peaceful protest. This is the true position of law in Nigeria

*NaijaLegalAnalyst*

james078:
So nobody is allowed to protest?
Its a civil right of every human being.

FASCISM is upon us, the creeping kind.

This 16yr experiment is doomed.

De Ja vu all over again.

hesiod:
God bless the President for clamping down on those rats. May God grant him iron fists to whoop Nigerians into line.

Where are you from?
What kind of a being are you?...
Our lord in heaven has given us freedom to everything even to the extent of allowing human beings to despise, criticise and all manners of evil acts being committed even allowing the presence of atheism, then who is buhari or Nigerian government to come and extract that freedom from us?
I will only let you be to yourself, you will only cry out when it affects you.
"Evil spreads only when the good people fail to react to it."

LegalAnalyst:


Police permit is not a requirement of law before anyone exercises fundamental right of peaceful protest. This is the true position of law in Nigeria

*NaijaLegalAnalyst*

Mr "Legal Analyst",

Section 1 of the Public Order Act (Cap P42) laws of the federation of Nigeria, 2004 states:

“Persons desirous of convening or collecting any assembly or meeting or of forming a procession in any public resort must apply and obtain the license of the governor. The governor can delegate his powers to the Commissioner of Police of the state or to other police officers. Persons aggrieved by the decision of the Commissioner of Police may appeal to the governor and the decision of the governor shall be final and no further appeal shall lie therefrom".

Now, again I ask; Did the NANS President get authorization for his protest?

Did you vote for Change in the last election NANS. If you didn't why questioning the change APC promised?

It is not business as usual. Nobody will dash you money.

There is a new sheriff in town.

james078:

Where are you from?
What kind of a being are you?...
Our lord in heaven has given us freedom to everything even to the extent of allowing human beings to despise, criticise and all manners of evil acts being committed even allowing the presence of atheism, then who is buhari or Nigerian government to come and extract that freedom from us?
I will only let you be to yourself, you will only cry out when it affects you.
"Evil spreads only when the good people fail to react to it."

You are powerless in the scheme of things.

Was it not from Nigeria we heard that over 1000 Shiites were massacred? and other daily deaths off records even Iraq and Afghanistan has not turned out the number of deaths from Nigeria.

What Good people do you talk about? there are no good men left in Nigeria. just criminal minds like your president rightly said.

james078:
Breaking: Police teargas Students, arrests NANS president for protesting unilateral sack of 13 VCs
Education News Politics Top Storiesabout 1 hour ago

The National President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Tijani Usman was Thursday arrested by security operatives after leading a protest to challenge the unconventional sack of 13 university Vice Chancellors and their unilateral replacement by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Only nine of the 13 had exhausted their tenures.
The security agency which descended violently on protesters and journalists arrested Usman while leading a blockade of the entrance of the Federal Ministry of Education. They were sitting at the entrance of the ministry when policemen began to teargas them.
The students who described the sack and replacement as illegal called for the reversal of the developments.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu told reporters thereafter that no decision of the government will be reversed because somebody somewhere feels aggrieved.
“Some have made presentations and reservations and they are being looked at,” he said.
On Wednesday, Civil rights organisations shut down the entrance of the National Assembly and Ministry of Education in Abuja where they submitted petitions asking Buhari to rescind the sack.
The protesters described the sack as illegal.
Chairman of the coalition, Bassey Williams Etuk, called on President Muhammdu Buhari to relieve the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, of his appointment “because he knows nothing”.
According to Etuk, the sacking of the VCs and their replacement with people mostly from the North violated the federal character principles.
One of their placards reads: “Six Professors were taken from Bayero University, Kano as replacement… Haba! Why?”
They chanted solidarity songs, including: Adamu must go, reinstate the sacked VCs now and Nigeria needs a better administrator in the Education Ministry.”
A petition to the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, was received on their behalf by the National Assembly Deputy Sergeant-At-Arms, Dennis Maaji.
The group gave the Minister 48 hours to reverse the sack and resign his appointment “because he doesn’t seem to understand the working of University system and administration”.
Etuk said the coalition would be heading to court to stop the sack as the tenure of five of the sacked VCs were yet to expire.
The protesters also barricaded the Federal Ministry of Education located at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja.
Etuk said: “The minister does not have any right to call for the sack of 13 Vice Chancellors.
“Nine of the 13 sacked Vice Chancellors, their tenure was to expire this last Monday.
“But four, their tenure is still running.
“Some have two years, some have one year and six months.
“What he did, which is most disrespectful to the laws of the land, is that he appointed six people, his friends, from one university.
“He appointed six professors from one university, Bayero University, Kano, and he posted them to different tertiary institutions.
“Not only that, he also appointed two professors from Katsina State, making it eight friends from the just two states in North.
“We came here to tell him that Nigeria is not a sectional country.
“We are one indivisible Nigeria, nobody should separate us.
“Nobody should play sentiments with our economy and education sectors.
“The academic community has been here even before the minister was born.
“He cannot come and change it.
“Our appeal to him is to honourably reverse the decision
“Let’s agree with him that what he did was wrong, that he did it in a haste.
“We are here to tell him that he should please reserve that decision within 48 hours with immediate effects.
“If does not do that under 48 hours, we will call for his resignation.”
Etuk said the coalition would be heading to court to stop the sack as the tenure of five of the sacked VCs
http://nigeriantimes.ng/news/breaking-police-teargas-students-arrests-nans-president-for-protesting-unilateral-sack-of-13-vcs/

we were never meant to be a country or nation!! We are better off divided.......

fulanimafia:


Mr "Legal Analyst",

Section 1 of the Public Order Act (Cap P42) laws of the federation of Nigeria, 2004 states:

“Persons desirous of convening or collecting any assembly or meeting or of forming a procession in any public resort must apply and obtain the license of the governor. The governor can delegate his powers to the Commissioner of Police of the state or to other police officers. Persons aggrieved by the decision of the Commissioner of Police may appeal to the governor and the decision of the governor shall be final and no further appeal shall lie therefrom".

Now, again I ask; Did the NANS President get authorization for his protest?

Many thanks. I really appreciate your conviction to hold opinion. However, I must be quick to further refer you to a Court of Appeal decision in the case of IGP v. ANPP (2007) 18 NWLR pt. 1066 pg. 457. Particularly on the provision you cited above

In the case cited above, it was held that the provisions of the Public Order Act, which prohibit the holding of rallies or processions without police permit are unconstitutional having regard to section 40 of the 1999 Constitution and Article 11 of the African Chatter
*NaijaLegalAnalyst*

Opinedecandid:
The era is back.
I no wan talk much.

Some of us saw it coming.

Others perceived the smell smelling like 'body odor'.

Others were scammed into casting their votes for the return of the 'era'.

Behold it's here.

others were scam into casting their vote for d return of 1984 era, which era is better than this? Is it d era of corruption? D era of dollars spree, d era of ur ineffectual buffoon,
Meanwhile d sack vc's are they from north or south,

fulanimafia:


What are you talking about?

If he did not receive police clearance prior to the protest, his arrest is quite valid as he would be constituting a public nuisance and flouting the laid down process for embarking on a public protest of any kind.

so you said ?
he is telling you that police clearance is not pre-requisite for protest and you are bent on argument?

do you beat a child and ask him not to cry without "permission?"...what nonsense?

Which yeye NANS president? He can call himself any other thing but not the NANS president! Until a proper student becomes the NANS president, then we can start taking them serious! How many SUG presidents were involved in the protest with him?

Chukazu:


so you cant read?
he is telling you that police clearance is not pre-requisite for protest and you are bent on argument?

do you beat a child and ask him not to cry without "permission?"...what nonsense?

Is something wrong with your comprehension or are you blind? I just gave you the legal provision yet you're arguing based on hearsay.

fulanimafia:


Section 1 of the Public Order Act (Cap P42) laws of the federation of Nigeria, 2004 states:
“Persons desirous of convening or collecting any assembly or meeting or of forming a procession in any public resort must apply and obtain the license of the governor. The governor can delegate his powers to the Commissioner of Police of the state or to other police officers. Persons aggrieved by the decision of the Commissioner of Police may appeal to the governor and the decision of the governor shall be final and no further appeal shall lie therefrom".

fulanimafia:


Is something wrong with your comprehension or are you blind? I just gave you the legal provision yet you're arguing based on hearsay.

you quote the one that suits you and the "the last despotic maximum ruler" called Buhari

This government will implode soon.

fulanimafia:


What are you talking about?

If he did not receive police clearance prior to the protest, his arrest is quite valid as he would be constituting a public nuisance and flouting the laid down process for embarking on a public protest of any kind.

Where is that written in our constitution?

where you people not there when JONATHAN sacked SANUSI as Cbn governor without any substantial reason and even against the law

Useless nans,dey will neva face dia books, wat concerns dem!

1) "No decision of the government will be reversed because someone somewhere feels aggrieved".
2) Sacking VCs and replacing them with people mostly from the north?

And now people get Arrested for speaking their minds? But what happened to freedom of speech and expression? He spoke and expressed himself and now he is behind bars? Ok now we are officially under military regime.