The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has given the Federal Government and intervention agencies a strict 7-day ultimatum to commence an independent investigation into the crisis rocking Osun State Polytechnic, OSPOLY, Iree, or face a total national shutdown of the institution.
In a statement signed by NANS President, Comrade Akinteye Babatunde, the student body described events at OSPOLY as embarrassing, life-threatening, and institutionally bankrupt
NANS said it is not on a witch-hunt, but is acting to protect students and the integrity of Nigeria’s tertiary education system.
“When an administration reduces an institution to a mere revenue-collection center while starving students of knowledge and staff of motivation, it triggers a catastrophic multiplier effect that devalues the overall quality of tertiary education across the entire nation,” Babatunde declared.
The union accused management of abandoning students in classrooms while “aggressively extorting for continuous payments, handouts, and endless administrative paper receipts”.
The crisis, NANS said, reached a breaking point during the recent Computer-Based Test examinations.
According to the statement, the management mandated a digital exam without providing a single computer or reliable campus network. Students were forced onto a broken mobile portal.
“Standard Android phones glitched completely, leaving only iPhone users capable of writing the test,” NANS alleged.
“This technical segregation caused a dangerous physical stampede where multiple students fainted from exhaustion, entirely overwhelming the campus medical center.” it stated
The student body knocked the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, and the school management for over a week of silence despite heavy allegations against them.
“Is the silence of ASUP and the management not a clear sign that all these allegations are completely true? By remaining silent for over a week, they have tacitly accepted guilt,” the statement read.
NANS called on TETFUND to audit OSPOLY over“non-existent ICT facilities” despite regular federal allocations.
“For a school receiving federal intervention funds to force students to write a digital exam on personal smartphones due to a lack of institutional computers is a monumental disgrace and a clear case of misappropriation,” it said.
The ICPC and DSS were also asked to conduct a total forensic financial audit into forced student levies, extortionist receipt schemes, missing TETFUND ICT allocations, and the controversial portal transition that allegedly locked away student records.
NANS said the administrative failure has already destroyed graduate futures. Many OSPOLY graduates have been denied NYSC mobilization since 2024 due to Senate list upload failures and compromised data streams.
“Both JAMB and the NYSC explicitly stated that the problem is strictly from the school’s errors,” NANS noted.
NANS demanded that the NBTE, ASUP National, TETFUND, ICPC and DSS begin a transparent investigation within 7 days.
“If not, NANS HQ will completely relocate to the OSPOLY campus to take over the struggle physically and shut down all administrative operations,” Babatunde warned.
The union also placed management on notice against victimizing any student or whistleblower, vowing a massive, peaceful national shut-down if anyone is threatened.
“This struggle is strictly aimed at protecting the welfare of our students and rescuing the quality of tertiary education in Nigeria so our certificates retain their global value,” NANS concluded.
