MyNewJackeT:
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/

EponOjuku:
Only the NDDC is capable of this level of nonsense.

emeijeh:
Imagine!

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


Some Nigerians will always be Nigerians

PatrickOkunima:
What of Okowa that has not paid scholarship grants since he took over? More than half of Delta State students abroad have dropped-out.

9jakohai:


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.

9jakohai:


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.

majekdom2:
Why send students abroad in the first place. Why not fix our universities and make it attract foreign students. Obviously, many of these folks have got no conscience.

CHRISECHUKS:
It is well with my Country.

majekdom2:
mumu post

IFNOTGOD:


if u don't know Wat to say politely shut up, u can't pay their fees yet buhari can spend months in a London hospital wit his jet parked in d airport fees are been paid on its parking , ur senators are buying cars upon cars, 26billion dollars controversy n even a Nigerian can use 250 million naira to clear grass, no repeat dat statement again,wat happened to d over hyped recovered loot, Wat happened to d trillions dis govt claimed it has saved from tsa

9jakohai:


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.

agongajoseph:
There is a corrupt cartel in NDDC stealing funds for personal election campaigns in d nearest future. The current board is currupt.

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

9jakohai:




And the point of my mumuity is that....how do we sustain such scholarship programes?

THis isn't the first time such is happening, and it won't be the last.

I happen to agree with the fact that Bubu should have stayed home for treatment, and that money is stolen every year in this country via contracts.

But when all is said and done, Nigeria does not have enough money. Heck...we could not find N3 trillion for universites...when oil was above $100 per barrel.

SO, continue calling me a mumu, forgetting that I am just as annoyed by the corruption as you are, just as annoyed with the govt as you are ....but I also am annoyed by the fact that most Nigerians think that money grows on trees, and we just need a bigger ladder to get them

Good morning.

9jakohai:




And the point of my mumuity is that....how do we sustain such scholarship programes?

THis isn't the first time such is happening, and it won't be the last.

I happen to agree with the fact that Bubu should have stayed home for treatment, and that money is stolen every year in this country via contracts.

But when all is said and done, Nigeria does not have enough money. Heck...we could not find N3 trillion for universites...when oil was above $100 per barrel.

SO, continue calling me a mumu, forgetting that I am just as annoyed by the corruption as you are, just as annoyed with the govt as you are ....but I also am annoyed by the fact that most Nigerians think that money grows on trees, and we just need a bigger ladder to get them

Good morning.

divinehand2003:
Most likely NDDC is the culprit here.

MyNewJackeT:
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/

erico2k2:

Do you have telegraph link instead ? ?

9jakohai:


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.