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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by erico2k2(m): 7:33am On Oct 16, 2017
MyNewJackeT:
EDUCATION NEWS – The current trending update as more than 100 Nigerian students on scholarship in the United Kingdom universities could be deported home as early as this week except their fees are settled immediately, according to The Telegraph of London.

Fresh update reveals that the students are said to be sponsored by a regional agency and some of them are saddled with debts of up to £20,000.

The name of the sponsor agency was not given in the report.

The report described the students as “some of the Nigeria’s brightest undergraduates.

”They have been told that they will not receive their degree certification even though many of them completed their courses in the last academic year.

The newspaper said some of the affected students claimed they have been warned they could be deported by Friday, October 20.It said the Nigerian High Commission in London confirmed that 152 students had been caught up in the scandal, and that the sponsor agency had been left with a “draught of funding” due to a slump in Nigeria’s oil revenues.

The High Commission said in a statement that additional funding had been approved for 87 students.

There was no mention of how soon the bill would be paid.

The universities of Leeds and Essex said they “sympathised” with the affected students but declined to say whether their visas would be revoked.

They said that they were working closely with the Nigerian High Commission to resolve the dispute.

The University of Sussex claimed it had allowed one student to graduate, but declined to comment on whether their transcript had been withheld. It added that it had been providing “some financial assistance for living costs in cases of particular hardship.”

http://mynationnews.com/2017/10/15/over-unpaid-scholarships-hundreds-of-nigerian-students-face-deportation-in-uk/
Do you have telegraph link instead ? ?
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by PhilipGallagher(m): 7:33am On Oct 16, 2017
NDDC na Cast
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by PatrickOkunima(m): 7:34am On Oct 16, 2017
What of Okowa that has not paid scholarship grants since he took over? More than half of Delta State students abroad have dropped-out.
EponOjuku:
Only the NDDC is capable of this level of nonsense.

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by erico2k2(m): 7:34am On Oct 16, 2017
emeijeh:
Imagine!

I hope some of the students are not planning to flee to other European countries illegally?


Some Nigerians will always be Nigerians
wink
That nah fry pan to fire
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by EponOjuku: 7:36am On Oct 16, 2017
PatrickOkunima:
What of Okowa that has not paid scholarship grants since he took over? More than half of Delta State students abroad have dropped-out.

Can you imagine? This is unfortunate.

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by IFNOTGOD(m): 8:02am On Oct 16, 2017
9jakohai:


Yeah...where do you expect govt to get money to sponsor students from? The skies

Between 2014 and 2016 we lost $100billion in potential earnings from oil when oil prices dropped.

And you expect govt to suddenly find money for students like that?

What with the low amount of money we have now (and the corruption is still there chopping it).

THing is...if we want to keep paying foreign scholarships, we must restructure our economy to be a manufacturing dependent economy. We must stop looking for oil to sell. Oil has died , and been buried.

if u don't know Wat to say politely shut up, u can't pay their fees yet buhari can spend months in a London hospital wit his jet parked in d airport fees are been paid on its parking , ur senators are buying cars upon cars, 26billion dollars controversy n even a Nigerian can use 250 million naira to clear grass, no repeat dat statement again,wat happened to d over hyped recovered loot, Wat happened to d trillions dis govt claimed it has saved from tsa

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Nobody: 8:24am On Oct 16, 2017
9jakohai:


Yeah...where do you expect govt to get money to sponsor students from? The skies

Between 2014 and 2016 we lost $100billion in potential earnings from oil when oil prices dropped.

And you expect govt to suddenly find money for students like that?

What with the low amount of money we have now (and the corruption is still there chopping it).

THing is...if we want to keep paying foreign scholarships, we must restructure our economy to be a manufacturing dependent economy. We must stop looking for oil to sell. Oil has died , and been buried.
mumu post

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by donqx: 8:25am On Oct 16, 2017
hmmm
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Nobody: 8:26am On Oct 16, 2017
Why send students abroad in the first place. Why not fix our universities and make it attract foreign students. Obviously, many of these folks have got no conscience.

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Anstalk(f): 8:33am On Oct 16, 2017
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Meel: 8:33am On Oct 16, 2017
majekdom2:
Why send students abroad in the first place. Why not fix our universities and make it attract foreign students. Obviously, many of these folks have got no conscience.
Exactly, why will some selected set of people be given scholarship to study abroad, while some set continue to suffer from, incessant strike, sadist lecturers, bad infrastructure e.t.c.


Am not against students being given scholarship, but instead of spending millions of dollars abroad, our educational sector should be well financed and monitored.

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by ksbusari(m): 8:38am On Oct 16, 2017
Don't they have the opportunity to work there? they should be able to pay nw.
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by bendike: 8:49am On Oct 16, 2017
CHRISECHUKS:
It is well with my Country.
Bros, Exactly what do you mean? "it is well with my country". No offense intended. Just want to understand your reasoning.

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Nobody: 8:55am On Oct 16, 2017
majekdom2:
mumu post
IFNOTGOD:


if u don't know Wat to say politely shut up, u can't pay their fees yet buhari can spend months in a London hospital wit his jet parked in d airport fees are been paid on its parking , ur senators are buying cars upon cars, 26billion dollars controversy n even a Nigerian can use 250 million naira to clear grass, no repeat dat statement again,wat happened to d over hyped recovered loot, Wat happened to d trillions dis govt claimed it has saved from tsa


And the point of my mumuity is that....how do we sustain such scholarship programes?

THis isn't the first time such is happening, and it won't be the last.

I happen to agree with the fact that Bubu should have stayed home for treatment, and that money is stolen every year in this country via contracts.

But when all is said and done, Nigeria does not have enough money. Heck...we could not find N3 trillion for universites...when oil was above $100 per barrel.

SO, continue calling me a mumu, forgetting that I am just as annoyed by the corruption as you are, just as annoyed with the govt as you are ....but I also am annoyed by the fact that most Nigerians think that money grows on trees, and we just need a bigger ladder to get them

Good morning.
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Nukilia: 8:59am On Oct 16, 2017
What a country! I think Nigeria being the "GIANT OF AFRICA" should rather be "ABROAD" for other African countries.

Its pathetic when the like of our politicians do not believe in our education system. Going abroad to treat ear infection shows how terrible our politicians are.

The students should just come home, the government will send their money. What an embarrassment.
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Nobody: 9:02am On Oct 16, 2017
9jakohai:


Yeah...where do you expect govt to get money to sponsor students from? The skies

Between 2014 and 2016 we lost $100billion in potential earnings from oil when oil prices dropped.

And you expect govt to suddenly find money for students like that?

What with the low amount of money we have now (and the corruption is still there chopping it).

THing is...if we want to keep paying foreign scholarships, we must restructure our economy to be a manufacturing dependent economy. We must stop looking for oil to sell. Oil has died , and been buried.
There is a corrupt cartel in NDDC stealing funds for personal election campaigns in d nearest future. The current board is currupt.
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Nobody: 9:07am On Oct 16, 2017
agongajoseph:
There is a corrupt cartel in NDDC stealing funds for personal election campaigns in d nearest future. The current board is currupt.

Oya...phone your senator, so that they can start investigating the mess, and putting pressure where pressure must be put.

Democracy is hard work

(That is if it is true...oil price shortfalls are affecting everyone).

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by TEYA: 9:23am On Oct 16, 2017
skillet:
nddc is a regional agency abi? let us build the north east instead aabi?
Yes it is. Niger delta = South south region.
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Nobody: 9:25am On Oct 16, 2017
9jakohai:




And the point of my mumuity is that....how do we sustain such scholarship programes?

THis isn't the first time such is happening, and it won't be the last.

I happen to agree with the fact that Bubu should have stayed home for treatment, and that money is stolen every year in this country via contracts.

But when all is said and done, Nigeria does not have enough money. Heck...we could not find N3 trillion for universites...when oil was above $100 per barrel.

SO, continue calling me a mumu, forgetting that I am just as annoyed by the corruption as you are, just as annoyed with the govt as you are ....but I also am annoyed by the fact that most Nigerians think that money grows on trees, and we just need a bigger ladder to get them

Good morning.
Stop making excuses for those greedy lots, this is a problem about N2billion would sort out.

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Nobody: 9:35am On Oct 16, 2017
9jakohai:




And the point of my mumuity is that....how do we sustain such scholarship programes?

THis isn't the first time such is happening, and it won't be the last.

I happen to agree with the fact that Bubu should have stayed home for treatment, and that money is stolen every year in this country via contracts.

But when all is said and done, Nigeria does not have enough money. Heck...we could not find N3 trillion for universites...when oil was above $100 per barrel.

SO, continue calling me a mumu, forgetting that I am just as annoyed by the corruption as you are, just as annoyed with the govt as you are ....but I also am annoyed by the fact that most Nigerians think that money grows on trees, and we just need a bigger ladder to get them

Good morning.
if you are annoyed with the corruption, you wont be all about restructuring or manufacturing investing. funds were delayed even when oil price was above 100 dollars. restructuring or no restructuring, until we have leaders that mean well and wnat to do it right we will keep going round same circle. see the problem of Nigeria is not in its structure or natural resource. The problem is in its people. Majority dont just have the right thought. America did not become America because they had oil or industries. They are America because they have the right people same with other leading countries. how many governors or senators have been denied their salaries so that these recipients can be funded or salaries owed workers be paid when it is obvious some of them have enough money to cater for them for the next 20 years.

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Ibime(m): 10:16am On Oct 16, 2017
divinehand2003:
Most likely NDDC is the culprit here.

NDDC and RSSDA
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Nobody: 11:13am On Oct 16, 2017
Ofcourse! Book is Haram to the dullard buhari. So he wouldn't want anyone to be Educated if it's Haram. grin
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by AyobamiIsaac12: 11:23am On Oct 16, 2017
Hmm
MyNewJackeT:
EDUCATION NEWS – The current trending update as more than 100 Nigerian students on scholarship in the United Kingdom universities could be deported home as early as this week except their fees are settled immediately, according to The Telegraph of London.

Fresh update reveals that the students are said to be sponsored by a regional agency and some of them are saddled with debts of up to £20,000.

The name of the sponsor agency was not given in the report.

The report described the students as “some of the Nigeria’s brightest undergraduates.

”They have been told that they will not receive their degree certification even though many of them completed their courses in the last academic year.

The newspaper said some of the affected students claimed they have been warned they could be deported by Friday, October 20.It said the Nigerian High Commission in London confirmed that 152 students had been caught up in the scandal, and that the sponsor agency had been left with a “draught of funding” due to a slump in Nigeria’s oil revenues.

The High Commission said in a statement that additional funding had been approved for 87 students.

There was no mention of how soon the bill would be paid.

The universities of Leeds and Essex said they “sympathised” with the affected students but declined to say whether their visas would be revoked.

They said that they were working closely with the Nigerian High Commission to resolve the dispute.

The University of Sussex claimed it had allowed one student to graduate, but declined to comment on whether their transcript had been withheld. It added that it had been providing “some financial assistance for living costs in cases of particular hardship.”

http://mynationnews.com/2017/10/15/over-unpaid-scholarships-hundreds-of-nigerian-students-face-deportation-in-uk/
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by AyobamiIsaac12: 11:24am On Oct 16, 2017
erico2k2:

Do you have telegraph link instead ? ?
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by lateefsul: 12:37pm On Oct 16, 2017
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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by erico2k2(m): 12:41pm On Oct 16, 2017
Make dem Hustle the ground pay thier school fees themselves
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by BedLam: 12:59pm On Oct 16, 2017
9jakohai:


Yeah...where do you expect govt to get money to sponsor students from? The skies

Between 2014 and 2016 we lost $100billion in potential earnings from oil when oil prices dropped.

And you expect govt to suddenly find money for students like that?

What with the low amount of money we have now (and the corruption is still there chopping it).

THing is...if we want to keep paying foreign scholarships, we must restructure our economy to be a manufacturing dependent economy. We must stop looking for oil to sell. Oil has died , and been buried.
But we can fund Buhari's medical treatment and fleet of aircraft? Please look for another excuse. How much does it really cost to fund those. Are They up to a 500k ? Tell me something esle.

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Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by Udengs25(m): 1:14pm On Oct 16, 2017
Buhary why?.
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by amazingspiderma: 3:25pm On Oct 16, 2017
Definitely NDDC.
Re: Over Unpaid Scholarships: Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Face Deportation In UK by NwaliE01: 6:35am On Oct 18, 2017
when are we going to start investing all this thousands of dollars in our own institutions?
The rate at which we travel out for studies now baffles me.

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