Two factions of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Wednesday in Abuja engaged each other in a brawl over a plan by the South African High Commission to sponsor some Nigerian students to their country.

The President of National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) Bello Shagari who led the group was in the company of the President of Students Union Government (SUG) University of Abuja.

The Acting South African High Commissioner, Bobby Moroe on Wednesday after a meeting with the youth and student leaders said his country was planning to engage Nigerian youth on a cultural exchange visit to South Africa.

He said the motive behind the visit is to further cement the relationship that have existed between Nigeria and South Africa.

Moroe noted that the trip would enable the NANS members to meet with their South Africa counterparts as part of measures to resolve the attacks on Nigerians.

Trouble started when the President of NANS, Danielson Akpan and other executive members stormed the Embassy and claimed to be the authentic representatives of the students.

He said those invited for the meeting were impostors and not the executive members of the NANS. He berated the group for tarnishing the image of the student union and for accepting such offer while their fellow brothers and sisters were being killed.

The faction, therefore, descended on the members of the other group who were coming out of the Embassy exchanging blows.

It took the timely intervention of the police drafted to the facility who calmed the fray nerves of the students. (Independent)