Foreign Universities Delisting N/Delta Students On FG Scholarship Over Debt – IYC

[Shola Sholaz]

The President of Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, has drawn the attention of the Federal Government and well-meaning Nigerians to the plight of over 6,000 Niger Delta students on scholarships in some foreign universities.
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He said the authorities of the foreign universities had started delisting the students, majority of whom were Ijaws, due to the alleged Federal Government's failure to pay the students' fees.
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The IYC president, who spoke at a news conference earlier today in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari and other well-meaning Nigerians to wade into the matter.
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He said the students' plight was made worse by the vacuum in the Presidential Amnesty Programme because of the absence of an administrator for the programme.
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Mr. Eradiri said the amnesty programme had of recent been plagued with a lot of bureaucratic bottlenecks due to the absence of an administrator.
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He, therefore, urged President Buhari to appoint an administrator for the programme or do whatever he could with "the executive power he wields to ensure that somebody begins to take responsibility in that office".