Eneji said the uniform identity card should allow Nigerian students to have access to quality health services anywhere in the country.
The National Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS has called on the Federal Ministry of Education to provide Nigerian students with a multipurpose and uniform identity card.
The National President of the students association, Muhammed Ereji while canvassing for the multi-purpose ID card said it would enable the students to have access to quality health services, affordable social services around the country through an insurance package that comes with other numerous packages.
According to Thisday, Ereji made the call during a joint press conference of the National Association of Polytechnic Students and all SUG presidents of polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of technologies in Lokoja.
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He said ''poor healthcare is the key challenges facing the students’ community that has claimed the lives of our dear colleagues untimely, having acknowledged and identified the weaknesses and failure of the NHIS/TINSHIP package being run on most of our campuses.
“We have on record numerous institutions that charge students for the medical fee and TINSHIP yet the state of their health centres are pitiable with obsolete facilities.
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The student union also warned Oyo State government against what it termed “commercialisation of education” by way of arbitrary increase in the fees payable by students in the Polytechnic, Ibadan and other institutions in the state.