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Re: A Plea For Help...NDDC has left us hopeless in the UK by Khez: 3:09pm On Jan 22, 2016
Op give me that mrs soto whatever her name is number

The woman is high on Sk o, una dey even follow her reason well...

Smh
Re: A Plea For Help...NDDC has left us hopeless in the UK by E99E(m): 4:56pm On Jan 22, 2016
http://www.pressreader.com/nigeria/daily-trust/20160122/281702613725722/TextView

Just saw this post online. Hope it helps to make a difference.
Re: A Plea For Help...NDDC has left us hopeless in the UK by bakynes(m): 5:16pm On Jan 22, 2016
EngrBright:


Please stop Lying. This is the greatest lie of the century. You cannot travel to the UK without a Return ticket.
BTW the new policy of the UK govt has made it difficult for non EU students to get part time jobs.
Are you okay @ all. Yes I bought a two way ticket when I was leaving Nigeria but it expired after one year and I stayed beyond a year so I had to get another one. Well I don't know how they do it now, but a student has access to 20hrs per week of work time and 40 hours during the holidays you don't even know what year am talking about so don't you ever say am lying. Fool
Re: A Plea For Help...NDDC has left us hopeless in the UK by EngrBright(m): 8:29am On Jan 25, 2016
bakynes:

Are you okay @ all. Yes I bought a two way ticket when I was leaving Nigeria but it expired after one year and I stayed beyond a year so I had to get another one. Well I don't know how they do it now, but a student has access to 20hrs per week of work time and 40 hours during the holidays you don't even know what year am talking about so don't you ever say am lying. Fool
Another bunch of lies from an unscrupulous miscreant. You cannot overstay else you will be deported. Stop Lying. It will not benefit you.
If you want to know more ask questions rather than pretending to know to impress when you have never travelled before.
Re: A Plea For Help...NDDC has left us hopeless in the UK by bakynes(m): 3:18pm On Jan 25, 2016
EngrBright:

Another bunch of lies from an unscrupulous miscreant. You cannot overstay else you will be deported. Stop Lying. It will not benefit you.
If you want to know more ask questions rather than pretending to know to impress when you have never travelled before.
You are big learner, who told you I overstayed, ask anybody that got visa for a masters program they will tell you it's 18 months visa not one year. I got a two way vticket and I booked it for 1 year return but decided to stay a bit more to make some money. I just don't have your time wld have posted the pics of the Visa stamp for you to See but don't have your time. if you like believe it if you like don't it won't Change that fact that I got a Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering from London South Bank University. Fool
Re: A Plea For Help...NDDC has left us hopeless in the UK by EngrBright(m): 4:11pm On Jan 25, 2016
bakynes:

You are big learner, who told you I overstayed, ask anybody that got visa for a masters program they will tell you it's 18 months visa not one year. I got a two way vticket and I booked it for 1 year return but decided to stay a bit more to make some money. I just don't have your time wld have posted the pics of the Visa stamp for you to See but don't have your time. if you like believe it if you like don't it won't Change that fact that I got a Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering from London South Bank University. Fool
Forum members beware of this cheap crook that keeps exposing his ignorance. Do not fall for his deception.
Re: A Plea For Help...NDDC has left us hopeless in the UK by bakynes(m): 5:13pm On Jan 25, 2016
EngrBright:

Forum members beware of this cheap crook that keeps exposing his ignorance. Do not fall for his deception.
I sense Jealousy and seems you enjoying the attention am giving you but sorry to disappoint you this will be the last time I quote you. I don't have to prove anything to anybody.
Re: A Plea For Help...NDDC has left us hopeless in the UK by iphyconsult: 9:35pm On Mar 13, 2016
@ Anthony

You guys are lucky, they were able to pay you tuition. Probably because your institution is UK. My tuition has not been paid, not even to mention the allowance.

How could someone even concentrate in having an outstanding performance while is emotionally and financially down.

Hmm,...




AnthonyAnderson:
I really don't know how to start this but I pray this medium brings a solution to our problem.

I write on behalf of over 50 students whom are all beneficiaries of the Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC) foreign scholarship. In September 2015, we departed for a 12 months Masters programme in the UK. Prior to departure we were informed by NDDC staff that we would pay for visa processing and travel arrangements with our own money with the promise that our allowances would be paid within a month or two on our arrival in the UK. This was shocking to me as I had imagined a commission as big and well funded as the NDDC could easily make necessary arrangements for such just like how PTDF does for its scholars.

I was left with no option but to go begging family and friends to raise the required sum for me to apply for a UK visa, purchase flight tickets and estimated costs for three months accommodation and feeding. I wondered if this was how a foreign scholarship was meant to be. I almost gave up in seeking for assistance but favour smiled on me and I was able to receive donations from family and friends. With the money raised I purchased all I needed and traveled. NDDC had promised to send our allowances by the end of October. On arrival at school I realized that the accommodation was more than I had budgeted for and so could not afford it. Fortunately I had a friend that stayed in the next city and had to put up with him for the time being pending when I would secure an accommodation on receipt of my allowance. Fast forward to last week in November, NDDC officials in their numbers visited us (They surely spent more than half our entire allowance on their trip) promising we would now receive our allowances before the year runs out. Now in the second week of January 2016 we are yet to receive any allowance from NDDC or even assurance of when we will be paid. This is five months into a 12 month programme and not a dime has been sent to us. It might be surprising to note that the same NDDC has paid tuition fees to the schools since they know that the schools will not accept us without tuition fees which is far higher than the allowances we are supposed to receive but for some funny reasons they have refused to send a dime for upkeep(accommodation and feeding). Most of us have tried contacting the officials in the scholarship department of NDDC and all we receive are rude responses giving us the impression we are begging for alms. Particularly one Mrs Sotonye, who is always so rude on the phone whenever she chooses to answer calls to her phone and would never reply text messages sent to her.

My question is how do you send students abroad without giving them a dime for over 5 months? If there is no money for the scholarship why then send people out in the first instance? But surely this is not the case as tuition fees had already been paid. The idea of the scholarship is to relieve our parents of the financial burden of furthering our education because we are mostly not from wealthy homes. We have been forced to finds jobs even though these jobs cannot pay for our monthly house rent. The NDDC is not broke as to to say they cannot afford to send us our allowances. It is sad to see corruption has killed every conscience in people as can be exemplified by NDDC officials in charge of the scholarship whom I wonder if they would love their children to be treated as such.

With the recent ban by the CBN on the use of naira cards you can only imagine our plights as even our parents are helpless towards our situation. It is our hope the president GMB and the new acting chairman of the NDDC Mrs. Ibim Seminitari will quickly come to our aid.

It is our prayers that the bad eggs in the NNDC whom have continually denied us our monthly allowances for months now will be investigated and prosecuted so that future beneficiaries of the scholarship wont be allowed to go through the torture we are currently going through. Sometimes I feel regret... I feel regret because how do I bring out the best in me when i have to constantly remind myself that my next day food is not guaranteed coupled with the load of course work I have to battle at night after school.

It is sad to see that the NDDC has truly failed. One cannot only but imagine that maybe allowances meant for us have been diverted for personal gains.

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