The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has called upon the Niger Delta Development Commission to pay the allowances, tuition, and other incentives of students on its scholarship scheme in the United Kingdom.
She said the students had turned beggars following the non-payment of their tuition and allowances by the NDDC.
Some affected students had complained that their schools had suspended them for non-payment of tuition and other fees.
But Dabiri-Erewa in a statement on Tuesday by Mr. Gabriel Odu of the NiDCOM Media, Public Relations and Protocol Unit,
referred to a letter written to the Minister of the Niger Delta, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, dated June 18, 2020,
drawing attention to the plight of the students and urging the NDDC to pay them.
The statement read,
“At the moment, there have been persistent calls by the students for urgent intervention.
“While the deadline for payment of the fees of some students has expired or about to expire,
non-payment of their allowances has virtually turned many of them to beggars.”
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