Nigerian
students in Russia having took to the streets of Moscow Monday, to protest over
a 12 month unpaid stipends at the Nigerian embassy.
The students
who are beneficiaries of Bilateral Education agreement with Russia, a
scholarship initiative of the Nigerian government managed by the Ministry of
Education, which provides funding for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in
selected countries, accuse the federal government of failing to keep their
promise in paying their stipends, which has been left unpaid since October
2015.
Meanwhile, one
of the protesting students in his tweets claimed that they were left in the
cold to freeze for one hour thirty minutes before the embassy officials came to
address them, only for them to be told that they didn’t come along with a
written petition to the Federal ministry of Education.
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