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/

Idi Ameen will not kill person with laugh: I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

fynestboi

Most likely NDDC is the culprit here.

divinehand2003:
Most likely NDDC is the culprit here.

sure fynestboi

Buhari sef

Have a great day...

Failed govt

Hmmmmmmm

This is so sad to hear,

Which kind Country be this self......?


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Naija which way

Imagine!

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


Some Nigerians will always be Nigerians

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Smh

Too bad

has it gotton to this? Abeg 9ja which way?

Space Booked

It is well with my Country.

SCAMMERS EVERYWHERE. jst like Midwestern jv scholarship

This Govt no de even encourage person to go school. I don't know if we still have Minister of Education. No policy or plan regarding education. Buhari and his gang doesn't believe in education.

there are schools here, they should come here and continue where they stopped... at least its nice they experience strike for 1ce in their life

I know it's Buhari, he doesn't like education.

hmm

Nigeria my country. May God save and deliver this country

jomboliski:
Have a great day...

Likewise!

nddc is a regional agency abi? let us build the north east instead aabi?

emeijeh:
Imagine!

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


Some Nigerians will always be Nigerians

Yes, I believe most of them will be tempted to do so, but I believe the issue might be resolved.


Check my signature

Only the NDDC is capable of this level of nonsense.

BedLam:
This Govt no de even encourage person to go school. I don't know if we still have Minister of Education. No policy or plan regarding education. Buhari and his gang doesn't believe in education.

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.

NDDC fraudulence is epic, they’d sort themselves out.

If it's so let them come back here and finish up. Schools are all over here. After all the ones schooling here are human beings. Thanks