Some students sponsored to Europe for post-graduate studies by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) are reportedly stranded abroad because of the alleged lack of funding from the commission.
Niger Delta Development Commission The students this month sent a letter to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, complaining that life for them abroad has been compounded by the coronavirus pandemic which has prevented them from even engaging in menial jobs for survival.
Some of the 210 students who were ‘fortunate’ to win the NDDC scholarship were unable to leave Nigeria for their studies because the commission did not even give them N500,000 take-off grant for their visa processing and flight cost, the students said. “In addition to this, universities have now transferred the tuition debt to scholars and have given scholars tight deadlines to make payments, otherwise they would be reported to the respective immigration offices for eventual deportation. This is nine months of the lives of some of the brightest Nigerian students about to be thrown in the refuse bin of history.”
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