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Both organisations unapologetically stood and fought for education, democracy, development, Pan-Africanism and humanism. They were thoroughly anti-imperialist and identified with the national liberation struggles within and outside Africa. Between the 1980s and the early 1990s, NANS propagated that politicians and ‘militicians’ were “anti-students”, “anti-working people”, “parasitic”, “dangerous”, “subversive”, “hostile” and “antithetical” to progress, democracy and development.
Student union leaders fraternizing with governments and school administrations, or opposing popular causes, were described as “traitors to students and peoples’ cause”, and often impeached. In some cases, they were politically excommunicated by the majority of the students. In a few cases, those identified as spies, were chased out of the campuses.
NANS withstood state repression because it was student-rooted, well-informed, ideas-driven, and was led by ideologically informed students’ leaders and activists. This can be discerned from former Education Minister, Professor Jibril Aminu’s media interview in 1988: “It was found that wherever there was trouble they took over the institution of learning.
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