Moscow police have detained 16 Nigerian students accused of smashing furniture inside their country's embassy, reportedly in anger over unpaid grants.

The 16 suspects were removed from the embassy building at the request of Nigerian staff, Russia's interior ministry told local media.

All of them are enrolled at colleges of higher education in Russia, it added.

Other African students in Russia have protested in the past over their home countries' failure to pay their grants.

The 16 students arrested in Moscow face administrative charges, the interior ministry said.

Trouble erupted at the embassy on Malaya Nikitskaya Street following a hearing for the students over their financial problems, according to a police source quoted by Ria-Novosti news agency.

Furniture was smashed in the reception room, after which the students reportedly threatened to damage the embassy's other rooms.

Last year, Nigerian students beat up an embassy representative over non-payment of grants, Russia's lenta.ru news website reports.

Thousands of African students have passed through the educational system in Moscow and other Russian cities in a tradition dating back to Soviet times, when the communist government subsidised their studies.

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Sagamite: These are HEROES!

Brymo: wit racism in Ru,naija still dai Dere nawa o:

Brymo: obviously u r a rogue

Litmus: Nigerians are spoilt. Why do we always have to mega exaggerate our woes? For instance,during fuel subsidy protest, four people reputedly died (god rest their souls) and the fall out from that on Niraland beggars belief, i feared Nigeria would disintegrate on the spot. People where calling all Nigerians barbaric, we were hell-hole, people wanted to tear up their passports, people cussed their own parents for given birth to them in the so-called cussed land, people posted atrocities committed in the congo and claimed that it happened in Nigeria and so on and so forth. Now Sudan, 2013, fuel subsidy protest, over 200 people dead not a word. I trawled the web, nothing.

Forza p:

wats dis one saying?

Laja Laba: Hey keep quiet and get back into the kichen....wetin u know?

Brymo: laja laba,see name,go continue ur babalawo tins. mtcheew

Horus: Do the Russian police have the right to enter the Nigerian Embassy building even at the request of Nigerian staff?

Brymo: wit racism in Ru,naija still dai Dere nawa o: