According to Daily Trust, hotel authorities where they are being quarantined before proceeding to provinces where their schools are located are said to have threatened them with eviction if they faile
d to make their payments at the end of their quarantine period. The first batch of Nigerian students, comprising eight awardees who recently left for China on scholarship under the federal government’s Bilateral Education Agreement , are trapped in different hotels in Guangzhou and other locations across the East Asian country over unpaid COVID-19 quarantine fees.
While some of the students said they had already exhausted their upkeep allowances on the payment of the fees, which were not provided for in their scholarship letters, others said their parents and relatives had been selling properties to send them money. The first batch of awardees that are among beneficiaries for 2020, 2021 and 2022 left Nigeria through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on October 26, 2022, en route Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and are expected to be joined by another batch of about 20 students on November 16.
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