{"id":13659,"date":"2018-11-23T19:38:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T19:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13659"},"modified":"2018-11-23T19:38:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T19:38:21","slug":"nans-mourns-11-dead-unimaid-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13659","title":{"rendered":"NANS mourns 11 dead UNIMAID students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"small-12 medium-9 right column\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"post-body  xt-post-content\">\nThe National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Friday expressed sadness over the death of 11 students of\u00a0University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in an auto accident on Tuesday.<br \/>\nA total of 11 students of UNIMAID died in the accident on\u00a0Nov. 20 on their way to\u00a0Damaturu from Maiduguri following the ASUU strike.<br \/>\nThe National Public Relations Officer of NANS, Mr Best Okereafor, gave the condolence in a statement issued in Enugu on Friday.<br \/>\nHe stated that \u201cNANS mourns the fallen Nigerian students and in same vain attribute the demise to the ongoing Academic Staff Unions of Universities (ASUU) strike.<br \/>\n\u201cNANS believes that if the strike was not ongoing; the students would have been in school, studying.<br \/>\n\u201cNANS is calling on the Federal Government to save our future and consider the souls of these fallen innocent Nigerian students often told that they are the leaders of tomorrow. Can we lead in grave?<br \/>\n\u201cIn as much as we believe in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, NANS is on this sad note, calling on Federal Government to make students happy by meeting the demands of the striking ASUU and Colleges of Education lecturers without further delay.\u201d<br \/>\nAccording to him, ASUU should not politicise the industrial action but consider the lives of Nigerian students by shifting grounds.<br \/>\n\u201cWe appreciate the ASUU agitations as some are students oriented and we are part of the struggle as we are most affected as well.\u201d<br \/>\nBy <strong>NAN<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xtss-below-post\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row collapse\">\n<div class=\"small-12 column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Friday expressed sadness over the death of 11 students of\u00a0University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in an auto accident on Tuesday. A total of 11 students of UNIMAID died in the accident on\u00a0Nov. 20 on their way to\u00a0Damaturu from Maiduguri following the ASUU strike. The National Public Relations Officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}