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Stop sending children to schools in Northern Cyprus, NIDCOM warns parents

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has warned Nigerian parents against sending their children to universities in Northern Cyprus over the incessant and mysterious killing of Nigerians.

Chairman/CEO of the commission, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who gave the warning on Monday, said it was too risky to send children to the schools in Northern Cyprus as hundreds of Nigerian students had been killed there mysteriously without any conclusive investigations carried out.

Dabiri-Erewa said this when she received in her office, a delegation led by Justice Amina Bello, mother of a Nigerian student, Ibrahim Khaleel, who was allegedly killed in inexplicable circumstances in that country.

She stressed that the death of Khaleel, a third-year engineering student, had brought to a tipping point the incessant killing of Nigerian students in Northern Cyprus under baffling circumstances.

The NIDCOM boss, who read out 15 names of Nigerians from a list of more than 100 who were killed in Northern Cyprus, said it was difficult to employ international diplomacy in investigation as the country is only recognised by Turkey.

“The death of Ibrahim Khaleel should be the tipping point to a stop in the killing of our children anywhere in the world, particularly Northern Cyprus.

“It is not only Ibrahim. Kennedy Dede, 28; Augustine Ngok, Gabriel Sorewei, Osabanjo Owoyale, Augustine Wallace, Stanley Eteno, Hassan Babatunde, Temitayo Adigun, and Kubat Abraham are just a few of the ones that we even know.

“The problem is that most Nigerian parents do not know that Northern Cyprus is not recognised by any country in the world.

“It is not a UN-recognised country. It is only recognised by Turkey. That is why we have not been able to do much.

“Who do you report to? Thousands of Nigerian students are schooling there and I tell you that hundreds have been killed. Who do you take these cases to?

“And they are killed in similar circumstances. The school just tells you, ‘Well, they committed suicide,’ and nothing happens.

“We are going to list all these names of Nigerians that have been killed and we demand justice. There has been no prosecution and no compensation.

“No Nigerian parent should send their children to any university in Northern Cyprus – there is a collaboration which we do not understand that makes them kill blacks, particularly our Nigerian students,” she said.

She assured the mother of the deceased student that the commission would work with her to demand justice, not only for her son but also for other Nigerians who have been killed while studying in Northern Cyprus.

She said the case had already been transferred to INTERPOL through the office of the Attorney General of the Federation.

The NIDCOM chairman recalled that when she was a serving lawmaker and Sorewei’s killing was on the front burner in Nigeria, the school which seemed unapologetic about the killing had already sent its agents to lure more Nigerians with juicy scholarships.

While acknowledging that Nigerian schools needed improvements, she gave an assurance of President Muhammadu Buhari’s dedication to improving the education sector and insisted that many Nigerian schools were better than some of the acclaimed foreign universities in spite of the odds.

She said that there were already reports that many of the courses being offered by the “shoddy” universities in Northern Cyprus were not accredited, pledging that NIDCOM would work with the Nigerian Universities Commission for a possible blacklist of certificates from the country.

“Yes our universities have challenges. There are strikes and you don’t (always) know when you are going to finish but there are some of these universities that you will regret you even went to, including some in Africa.

“It is better to go to a private university here than to go to some of these places that we go to in the name of ‘our children are in Europe’.

“We have written the NUC. The key thing is to blacklist Northern Cyprus and to stop our children from going to that country to study.

“We will be working with the NUC to list all the universities in Northern Cyprus and blacklist them. We cannot be letting them kill our children.

She said that NIDCOM had met with the Ambassador of Turkey to Nigeria, who being new, said he was unaware of the killing but promised to look into the matter.

She added there were plans by NIDCOM to visit Northern Cyprus after the COVID-19 Pandemic to see thing as clearly as they were.

She admonished Nigerians schooling abroad to make it a point of duty to always report to the Nigerian mission in that country upon arrival.

Speaking earlier, the mother of the late student said that she was yet to come to terms with the death of her son whom was reported to have committed suicide but circumstances showed otherwise.

She said that autopsy reports and investigations which she had requested in the past seven months were yet to come, adding that the school authorities were being evasive.

She said that while she was told by authorities that her son jumped from the 7th floor of a building, there was no visible injury on his body or head to suggest that.

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Okay

So I actually made FTC

This is saddening

Blame these devilish school agents that send those children there and promise them heaven and earth!!!

Buhari should go and bomb the f@cking illegal country Why not use back diplomatic channels? Go through Turkey

If our system is working, they won't have any reason to go and study in overseas, let alone getting killed.
Sadly, FG and ASUU still dey blow war.

I don’t know why Nigerians will just wake up and travel to useless countries like Turkey, northern Cyprus, China, all Asia countries and all the Middle East countries including that shithole dubai.


If it’s not Canada, UK, Australia, US, all shengen countries please stay back or if you’re so anxious about traveling please just go and relax in Benin republic.

May God never let us to move from fry pan to fire amen

Jerusalem1:
shithole dubai

U need weed I can see ur frustration you are in Nigeria you are calling Dubai a shithole country

Bornfool:
U need weed I can see ur frustration you are in Nigeria you are calling Dubai a shithole country

yes a shithole. I don’t need to argue with you. At least glory be to God you ain’t the only one that have travelled outa Africa.

This is serious o. Hundreds of Nigerian students dead?

We really need to revamp our universities o. If we do that then there is no need to travel to these dangerous and unrecognised countries in the first place.

When we on our own, don't value our lives in our country, how will others value it for us

Daaayyuuummmmm!!

This is evil!!

And who keeps helping them secure visas to such a horrible place?....

It's a pity.....

A country that is recognized only by turkey should only produce certifications recognized only by her and turkey.

If Nigeria stopped recognizing degrees from such countries people will stop going there.

I will neva understand Nigerians na everywhere ther dey go. Student visa is one of d easiest to get yet they'll leave all d palatable countries and go to d lamest ones....ndi abroad graduate

100 deaths tufia kwa

Story story! Have you investigated the deaths of thousands killed by criminal elements within our jurisdiction here? Those students are even safer there than here in their supposed country.

martineverest:
why not go there and see if it's safe?.....

Do you know how many Nigerian youths have been hacked to death in the U.k? From Damilola Taylor,down to the recent Alexander Kareem? 7 Nigerian youths under 30 were killed under 4 months in 2018 in Britain. Would you reject a chance to relocate to the u.k on permanent basis?

People like you just have herd mentality and you dont argue objectively. All the youths the military and paramilitary have killed in this country ,did it happen in Cyprus?

All the people being murdered and kidnapped here and there,it happened where?

Nigerians! Remove the speck in your eyes, so that you can remove the mould in your neighbours! We dont love and respect each other here in Nigeria,how can others do?

Seriously nigerians need to stop going there. I knew gabriel soriwei he was my classmate. He died through accident caused by a drunk cyprus citizen. The police refused to charge the citizen for it, even when his people travelled all the way from nigeria for it the govt remained silent and never issued a statement. The major cause of all these are travelling agents in nigeria. They just take ur money and send u to a shithole country

Where are children of Juda? Come and blaim Buhari/El-rufa'i as well.

Nigerians should stop going there

Jerusalem1:
yes a shithole. I don’t need to argue with you. At least glory be to God you ain’t the only one that have travelled outa Africa.

The same shíthole that Nigerians are dieing to go to speak with sense please.

If you want to school outside Nigeria don't go to shithole countries please

OMG

...........the school which seemed unapologetic about the killing had already sent its agents to lure more Nigerians with juicy scholarships!

WTF is going on here
We need to carry out some urgent information ASAP.

martineverest:
their agents are nigerians almost in every local government in Lagos.
Once u tell them u want to study in USA,UK or Canada ,they try to convince u about studying in Cyprus

You may not be far from the truth!

Really!

Indeed

Nawa o, it's now crime to be Nigerian

What then should we say about our schools that is not well equipped...?

Even with this news you'll still see a lot of student warming up to go to northern Cyprus

This is not just happening today

They don't like Nigerians there

Marriage is not even allowed to their citizens even

Crazy place

I think government should control the list of countries students are allowed to go to

melanch:
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My course mate who was an evangelist here went there and things got so though including their high rate of Racism.

He has now turn to street over there.

He even dey work Facey!