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NEWS [ABUJA]- The House of Representatives Diaspora Affairs committee
has said that about 322 Nigerian students under the Bilateral Education
Agreement Scholarship Awards by the Federal Scholarship Board in Russia
have not received stipends from the federal government for nine months.
A report by an Abuja based national daily reveals that the situation has forced the students to beg for food from their fellow students from neighbouring countries despite being on the government’s scholarship scheme.
The Paper quoting Chairman of the committee, Rep Abike Dabiri-Erewa (APC, Lagos) as saying in a statement, explained that similar fate befell some Nigerian students in Russia not long ago, which was solved after the intervention of the committee.
Rep Dabiri-Erewa said her committee had “received with a deep sense of pain, incessant sad tales and complaints of about 322 Nigerian students on Scholarship from the Federal Government of Nigeria now begging for food in Russia.”
She said the students were in the country under the Bilateral Education Agreement Scholarship Awards by the Federal Scholarship Board. “For over eight months (and counting) our students are yet to receive their monthly stipends.
This act of unpaid student stipends is highly reprehensible and is beyond human justification. “The haphazard manner of payment of BEA
scholarship awardees needs to be addressed immediately with a view to implementing a permanent and long term solution,” the committee
chairperson appealed. While urging the education minister to ensure prompt resolution and payment of the students’ entitlements, she added that the country’s image was at stake if similar scenarios would continue to occur with Nigerian students abroad. “The lack of prompt
payment and subsequent student cash strap,” the lawmaker said, “has led to some of our students begging from their fellow African counterparts (on the same BEA scholarship from their countries) including those from Ghana, Namibia, Uganda and even Sierra Leone.
A report by an Abuja based national daily reveals that the situation has forced the students to beg for food from their fellow students from neighbouring countries despite being on the government’s scholarship scheme.
The Paper quoting Chairman of the committee, Rep Abike Dabiri-Erewa (APC, Lagos) as saying in a statement, explained that similar fate befell some Nigerian students in Russia not long ago, which was solved after the intervention of the committee.
Rep Dabiri-Erewa said her committee had “received with a deep sense of pain, incessant sad tales and complaints of about 322 Nigerian students on Scholarship from the Federal Government of Nigeria now begging for food in Russia.”
She said the students were in the country under the Bilateral Education Agreement Scholarship Awards by the Federal Scholarship Board. “For over eight months (and counting) our students are yet to receive their monthly stipends.
This act of unpaid student stipends is highly reprehensible and is beyond human justification. “The haphazard manner of payment of BEA
scholarship awardees needs to be addressed immediately with a view to implementing a permanent and long term solution,” the committee
chairperson appealed. While urging the education minister to ensure prompt resolution and payment of the students’ entitlements, she added that the country’s image was at stake if similar scenarios would continue to occur with Nigerian students abroad. “The lack of prompt
payment and subsequent student cash strap,” the lawmaker said, “has led to some of our students begging from their fellow African counterparts (on the same BEA scholarship from their countries) including those from Ghana, Namibia, Uganda and even Sierra Leone.
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