Meranda encourages Lagos students to apply for loans initiated by government

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt (Hon) Mojisola Meranda has encouraged students from the State to apply for loans initiated by government, urging the students to formally send their complaints in written forms to the House for action.

Meranda said this on Friday when the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Lagos State University (LASU) branch, paid a courtesy visit to her at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Alausa in Ikeja.

The Speaker urged them to always attend town-hall meetings in their constituencies where they could contribute and make their opinions known.

Earlier, the student representatives said the visit was to congratulate Meranda over her emergence as Speaker of the State Assembly

Describing the Speaker as a thoroughbred Lagosian, the chairman of NANS, Abdulraheem Azeez, used the opportunity to list some of the challenges faced by students in the university.

According to him, students have had to read in darkness as the Ikeja campus gets less than two hours of power supply daily.

Azeez also raised the need for the State to make available loans for indigent students as well as for the Assembly to provide opportunities for students to witness the plenary of the House.