NDDC SCHOLARSHIP BENEFICIARIES CRY OUT NON PAYMENT OF TUITION FEE
The 2018 and 2019 Scholarship beneficiaries of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, on Monday, 20/07/2020, assembled at the Nigerian High Commission, London, to cry out to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari over the non-payment of their tuition fee by the NDDC, IgbereTV reports. The scholars asked President Buhari to speedily effect the payment, because they stand the risk of eviction from their institutions and subsequent deportation, as their institutions had already threatened to stop their scholarship programmes. A letter jointly sent by the scholars to President Buhari reads in part: “Your Excellency, we have continually been harassed by series of letters from our institutions threatening to withdraw their service. Some students have not been very lucky as the responsibility for the payment of their tuition has been transferred to them with strict timelines and conditions. “For over ten (10) months, scholars have been subjected to all kinds of dehumanising challenges now...