Wiz-Prince:
You see, Nigerians can go to other countries to study free without undergoing 'Political Exams' but UK, USA, CHINA, RUSSIA and others can't come to Nigeria to study due to the way our schools are, political exams like JAMB that will keep a good student at home for 12yrs etc. Nigeria need to change jare!

akereconfi: if u are a RIVERS indigene...........try apply with RSSDA, they send 300 rivers indigene and 30 non indigine every year to UK, CANADA, HUNGARY, INDIA, IRELAND and CZECH REPUBLIC...........Last two weeks the students bound for US travelled. On the 20th which is tomoro, CZECH students are leaving, on 21st which is Saturday, HUNGARY students are leaving, UK students are leaving in batches

kossynerule: Nigeria is offering scholarship to foriegn students.did I hear that right?.Pls which skul dey wan enroll them abeg?abi na private university?cos the last tym I check,ASUU is still on strike.Funny Country

O.michael.O:
3 of my cousins were beneficiaries of the scholarship.. Not dis year tho'
2 morocco and 1 Cuba

bookface:

I don't understand why anyone will choose to go study in either Russia or China. Holidays, maybe. But to live, work or study? hell naw!

marcangelo: Not only u davo93... I also followed dat BEA thread on naira land wit u, mehn my #42k just gone like dat, i tot it "man knw man" was a fake excuse by ppl..bt now i knw man knw man works in 9ja 100%.. D heartbreak, d dissapointed look on my folks face, and d shame i somhw feel aftr tellin almost evryone i'll b gone to russia....*sobs*

Davo93: Hmmmm... at last! Congratulations to those selected and i wish them a very successful stay over there in their respective countries of study. I hope they prove to the whole world once again that Nigerians are not dull people but only been limited by the non-working atmosphere.

By the way, i don't want to say this so as not to sound like a looser but i can't help it. Its quite unfortunate after spending about 50K on the application procedures and requirements for the 2013 BEA scholarship and several horrible experiences i had during the application period which i can't start narrating here, the ministry of education has made a lot of us that applied feel like something secretive goes on in selecting the lucky ones. Yes, we were told the selection will be done by the donor nations but i beg to disagree that it went that way. Imagine we wrote an exam around 27th March, no result was released, no response from Federal Scholarship Board even when you contact them, their website went down and surprisingly, we heard the Supervising minister seeing them off. I say, the selection process is just too cloudy! No fairness; No transparency whatsoever.

My Oga at the top thing has been the order. Truly, everyone cannot be picked but why is the selection process not plain and conspicuous tovus all? I am sure a lot of Nairalanders that applied have more to say on this. Things like this make one feel like we have got no hope again in Nigeria but all thesame, i see a better Nigeria in the nearest future. Its high time we washed our system away from corruption that has eaten deep. I bless God, i am doing very fine where i am today but what of those young sharps that were disappointed same way and no breakthrough to an institution yet? May God help us all.

Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!!!

chinaman666:

I don't know about Russia, but China is a delightful place to work and study. I suggest that you don't make assumptions based on hearsay without personal experience. China's third largest city, Guangzhou, is called "the chocolate city" for attracting so many African immigrants, who are accepted into the country and have flourished.

China has always embraced diversity. These students will be welcomed there and will have a great time.

dasparrow:

China a delightful place to study? hmmm, I don't believe you. I feel for this students because Chinese is a difficult language to learn with all that scribble scrabble in the way they write. In short, let me not saying anything.

@Post

I feel sorry for these students especially the ones going to Russia. Russia is a terrible country to live in if you are black. It seems the average Nigerian thinks that the way we treat white people when they come to Nigeria is the way they treat us when we go to theirs. Russians believe black people are monkeys with tails yet that is the kind of society that the Nigerian government saw fit to send young Nigerian students to? Chai, my heart bleeds.

You know back in the day, my father was also a recipient of one of these government scholarships but in the 1970s, Nigerian students were sponsored by our government to study in ADVANCED nations such as UK, Germany, USA and the likes. Today, they are being sent to study in 2nd world/developing countries like Ukraine, Russia and the likes. The indigines of such countries are not used to black people and since racist whites think and act like savages, many will not hesitate to attack you due to the color of your skin. Anyways, when they get there, the Nigerian students will have to find out how hostile and hateful Russians are the hard way. After all, they say experience remains the best teacher.

chukxie:

China is indeed a delightful place to study. Racism is everywhere. Show me one country where there isn't racism. Just what i thought. Blacks studying in China are respected especially when they prove to skeptics that they're academically sound and not in any way inferior to anyone. I speak from experience. In China, people will respect you when they hear you speaking Mandarin. Even, they will accord a black person more respect for speaking Mandarin than they would if a white person was heard speaking Mandarin. The reason is you're seen as an underdog with low intellect because that's what they've always been told, that's what they've read in books and that's what they watch on TV. So when you prove them wrong by showing how intellectual sound you are, geez you need to see the looks on their faces! If i had to chose between schooling in Russia and China, i'd chose China ten times over Russia. There are more opportunities in China than there are in Russia. The Chinese language is gradually becoming the language of the 21st century. There are now more Americans studying Chinese than ever before. For me it's China over Russia ! Zhongguo jia you! Naija jia you!

Aizebioje: Wait wait wait. Did I read that Nigeria is also offering foreign students scholarship? To these aggradized day care centres we call universities with academic calendars punctuated with incessant strikes by union workers? Laudable or LAUGHABLE

chukxie:

China is indeed a delightful place to study. Racism is everywhere. Show me one country where there isn't racism. Just what i thought. Blacks studying in China are respected especially when they prove to skeptics that they're academically sound and not in any way inferior to anyone. I speak from experience. In China, people will respect you when they hear you speaking Mandarin. Even, they will accord a black person more respect for speaking Mandarin than they would if a white person was heard speaking Mandarin. The reason is you're seen as an underdog with low intellect because that's what they've always been told, that's what they've read in books and that's what they watch on TV. So when you prove them wrong by showing how intellectual sound you are, geez you need to see the looks on their faces! If i had to chose between schooling in Russia and China, i'd chose China ten times over Russia. There are more opportunities in China than there are in Russia. The Chinese language is gradually becoming the language of the 21st century. There are now more Americans studying Chinese than ever before. For me it's China over Russia ! Zhongguo jia you! Naija jia you!

marcangelo: Not only u davo93... I also followed dat BEA thread on naira land wit u, mehn my #42k just gone like dat, i tot it "man knw man" was a fake excuse by ppl..bt now i knw man knw man works in 9ja 100%.. D heartbreak, d dissapointed look on my folks face, and d shame i somhw feel aftr tellin almost evryone i'll b gone to russia....*sobs*

victorlexa: Y not UK,US,GERMANY,etc... Na all dis low class unis una dey take dem to

delors:
Heya! congrats o. You nko? Tahiti?

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maxwello.yg:
Good move.
However, having known the Nigerian style-these students will be left in a foreign land to cater for themselves, soonest the Nigerian Government would abandon them without care, money or anyother thing.
I just seriously hope this set will be an exception.
Students sent to China are better off because there are more job opportunities there in China than in the racist country-Russia.

chinaman666:

I don't know about Russia, but China is a delightful place to work and study. I suggest that you don't make assumptions based on hearsay without personal experience. China's third largest city, Guangzhou, is called "the chocolate city" for attracting so many African immigrants, who are accepted into the country and have flourished.

China has always embraced diversity. These students will be welcomed there and will have a great time.