Much has been written about Adamu and NANS Supremo's confrontation. But, if truth be told, the confrontation highlights the hollowness of today's students' activism and the gbas gbos culture that has permeated public engagement in our country.
A NANS Chief that understands the crisis of education in Nigeria would have taken the Minister to the cleaners. Canvassing positions, marshaling them out, and articulating superior points of view are an art. That art what was missing in the NANS Chief. His was all heat and anger
This isn't the first time. It happened during the #Endsars protests when a select few on a zoom call couldn't marshal out what the youths in the streets were demanding.
In the ruly and unruly arena of negotiations, participants must master their art.
In the ruly and unruly arena of negotiations, participants must master their art.
In the past, NANS had some of the best masters of the art who would engage personages of power and make them look stupid: Senator Opeyemi of Ekiti, Gbenga Olawepo, who's a politician today, late Basil Chianson, AbdulRahman Black, Ngozi Iwere, Prof Akhaine. It is a long list
Those who attended the meeting with Prof Nwabueze, Education Minister, in 1993 would tell you how a former NANS President quietly demolished the position of the government on NANS ban and forced the Minister to proclaim that the banning of NANS was unjustifiable
A Minister was educated in his office and in the presence of his senior staff and students leaders - hecklers really - who were handpicked from schools.
That former NANS Supremo is today the G.O.
Master the art of public speaking, please!
That former NANS Supremo is today the G.O.
Master the art of public speaking, please!
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