The National Senate of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) will hold its 91st sitting in Kaduna State from Friday, 30th September 2026, to Sunday, 4 October 2026, to debate national issues ranging from the 2027 general elections to the rising threat of fake drugs and adulterated drinks.
The announcement was contained in a press statement issued on Thursday by the President of the NANS Senate, Distinguished Comrade Ibeabuchi Moses Onyia.
Onyia said the three-day sitting would bring together senators, Students’ Union presidents and accredited delegates from public tertiary institutions across the country. He described the meeting as a working session of the legislative arm of the student movement, not a ceremonial gathering.
According to him, deliberations will centre on the condition of Nigerian students, public safety and the direction of the country as the nation approaches the 2027 elections. The Senate, he said, would insist on a free, fair, credible and peaceful poll and define what he called “the students’ direction” — civic participation without political capture, voter education without partisanship, and a rejection of violence or vote-buying.
“Nigerian students will not be used as thugs, vote-buyers, or silent victims of a flawed process,” the statement said.
The Senate President also said Kaduna, as host state, would come under scrutiny. Delegates are expected to assess infrastructure and education standards in the state, including classrooms, hostels, laboratories, libraries, campus roads, water, power, security and the quality of learning available to students. Findings, he added, would form part of the official record of the sitting.
A major item on the agenda is public health. Onyia said the Senate would confront the circulation of fake drugs, substandard medicines, adulterated drinks and other unwholesome products, describing them as a silent national emergency that endangers students and the wider public.
He warned that if enforcement by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) remained inadequate, the Senate was prepared to authorise a massive, peaceful nationwide student mobilisation to the agencies’ offices.
The proposed protest, he said, would demand a public account of seizures, prosecutions and convictions; an emergency clampdown on fake drugs and adulterated drinks; protection for whistle-blowers and campus pharmacies; and clear timelines for action rather than “press-conference promises.”
“If regulatory agencies cannot secure the medicines and drinks that Nigerian students and their families consume, students will take the demand for safety to their gates,” the statement added.
Onyia called on all public universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria to mobilise their union presidents and students for the Kaduna sitting, describing attendance as a national assignment. He said accreditation, logistics and security protocols would be communicated through the Senate Clerk, zonal structures and Joint Campus Committees.
The NANS Senate said the 91st sitting would produce resolutions on the 2027 elections, the host state’s education and infrastructure, and the next line of action on fake drugs and adulterated products.