[color=#006600][/color][i][/i]Nigerian students under the
Bilateral Education Agreement
(BAE) scholarship scheme in Russia,
have slammed Nigeria’s federal
government for abandoning them
in the European country. The Punch gathered that Nigeria has
this scholarship agreement for
undergraduate and postgraduate
studies with Russia, Cuba, Morocco,
Algeria, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey,
Egypt, Japan, Serbia, Macedonia, China and Mexico, under which scheme, the
Nigerian government takes care of the
students’s upkeep, while the country
where the scholarship award is
tenable, provides the tuition. According to Samuel Adewale, a Don
State Technical University, Rostov on
Don, Russia, the federal government
seems to have abandoned him and
371 other students on the BEA
scholarship, as they have been left to face untold hardship. Some of the Nigerian students in
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Stop The special report by The Punch
revealed further that the students,
who went through series of tests vis-
a-vis other rigorous processes to
emerge beneficiaries of the
programme, are not sure if the federal government cares about their welfare
or their plights in Russia. Adewale narrates his story thus: “This
unpaid stipend has affected my
studies and that of many of my
colleagues badly. During the holidays,
many of us would sleep late at night
(sometimes not until 4am or 5am) just to make sure we skip breakfast and
lunch. “For me particularly, when I wake up
at about 3pm, I will brush my teeth
and drink water. Then, I wait till 7 or
8pm before I start hustling for what to
eat. Normally, I do not eat breakfast
before going to school. I do that after all my lectures and I make sure I eat
two times at night because I know
that I am not going to take anything
for breakfast. But eating twice is not
even possible anymore because there
is no money to buy foodstuff. “Nowadays we go to bed and to
classes on empty stomachs. Besides,
many of us have not been able to pay
our hostel fees. Soon, we will have to
renew our visas and health insurance
schemes. These problems affect us greatly. “Often, when I get to class, instead of
concentrating on lectures, I would be
thinking of how to deal with these
problems.” Tosin, a first-year student of the Tver
State Technical University, Russia, who
reportedly sent a picture of himself
and his colleague eating Manka
(Russian semovita) without soup,
lamented the life they face in the former Soviet Union Republic, stating
that it was better imagined than told. “This picture literally explains most of
the things I could not write in my mail.
This is how bad it is now. We are
currently facing hard times and
unfortunately, people in Nigeria do
not seem to take us seriously because they feel that even without money –
we are enjoying here,” the youngster
revealed. Another student, Otokhagua Imhoisili,
who is studying Software Engineering
at the St. Petersburg State
Electrotechnical University, offered that
the Nigerian government have not
paid them any allowance in the last nine months. The 22-year-old also explained that
their monthly feeding allowance of
$500 as well as $450 annual medical
and clothing allowances, were yet to
be paid and that they were being
owed $4,000 each by the Nigerian government. Imhoisili said: “From January till date,
none of these allowances have been
paid by the government, despite
repeated appeals and representations
to the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow
and the Federal Ministry of Education in Abuja. St. Petersburg happens to be
the second largest city in Russia. “The standard of living is very high. As
a result, studying has become difficult
lately. The recent crisis that hit Russia
also contributes to this, especially as
prices of goods in the country have
skyrocketed.”

Buhari come to their aid o

And the person that promised them the scholarship is already in Otuoke chilling. Don't worry guys, i am sure our great PMB will see to your case soon. Just keep holding on.

Help you for what? Buhari didn't go to any school so he doesn't care because he doesn't know the value of what you pursuing out there.