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Nigerian Students Sue Alabama College for Treating Them ‘Like Animals’

THE NOT-SO-PROMISED-LAND

Nigerian Students Sue Alabama College for Treating Them ‘Like Animals’

Alabama State University got millions to educate and house exchange students who say they were charged more and given less.

Godsgift Moses, Promise Owei, Thankgod Harold, Success Jumbo, Savior Samuel, and 30 more Nigerian students came to America hoping it would be the promised land.


It’s only fitting that “Opportunity is here” is the motto of Alabama State University, listed as one of America’s 100 Historic Black Colleges and Universities, and where they got full scholarships from a Nigerian government fund for four years of education. Instead of getting opportunity, they say the school took their country’s millions and used the money to discriminate against them.


In a lawsuit filed last week in federal court, 41 Nigerian nationals—many of whom are now Alabama State University alumni—allege the school overcharged them for books and meals, enrolled them in classes they never took, and more, all because they were black foreigners.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/07/nigerian-students-sue-alabama-college-for-treating-them-like-animals.html

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