Unlike affected institutions in India and Sudan where the Zamfara State government collaborated smoothly to resolve inherited liabilities of the state’s indigenes studying on scholarship in those countries to enable them complete their programmes and return home, the Cyprus International University is proving difficult amid humongous financial...
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“For our students in India and Sudan, the Zamfara State government has collaborated smoothly with the institutions. Zamfara indigenes studying in India have completed their studies and are preparing to return home. “Cyprus International University has consistently rejected the state government’s request to send a delegation to discuss the ongoing issues concerning our scholarship students. As a result, the state government had to reach out to the Nigerian Foreign Mission in Turkey for assistance.
“Other responsibilities include finding out and evaluating the conditions under which studies are being carried out, the situation of the hostels, feeding and other learning tools and infrastructure provided, and devising mutually agreed-upon terms and conditions through which the established outstanding and future liabilities would be settled.
“Other issues presented to the school management include the school authority tagging Zamfara state students “under a deportation order,” which was frowned upon as a harsh decision since they had not committed any criminal offence against the university or the country, and the deportation of one of the students without prior notification to either the Zamfara State Government or the Nigerian Embassy in Ankara. We also frowned at this action as unwarranted for a non-criminal reason.
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