About a 100 Rivers State sponsored students studying
in the United Kingdom may be deported back to Nigeria after they lost their
student visas after the government failed to pay their tuition fees for two
years...
By
Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
About
N1.4 billion has been spent on Rivers students studying at foreign universities
on government scholarships since Nyesom Wike took over as governor of the
state.
Wike
revealed this at the St. Paul's (Ang.) Cathedral Church, Diobu, Port Harcourt,
where an inter-denominational church service was held to commemorate the 55th
National Day Anniversary, Premium Times reports.
Represented
by the Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Ipalibo Banigo, the governor said his
government will ensure that all students are paid.
"We
thank the CAN president for expressing his concern about our students and want
to assure you that His Excellency has so far spent N 1.4 billion on overseas
scholarships and just last Thursday, he released N 491 million to make sure
that every child of Rivers State schooling abroad must receive money," he
said.
"We
would continue to help the children irrespective of how they got there."
Last
week, the media was awash with reports that about a 100 Rivers State sponsored
students studying in the United Kingdom have had their visas revoked because
they owe two years tuition at their various universities and may be deported
back to Nigeria.
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