In response to recent deportation orders against several Nigerian students attending Teesside University in the UK, the Federal Government has intervened to find a solution.
The management of the university will meet with a team headed by Ambassador Christian Okeke, a representative of the Nigerian Embassy in the UK, and representatives of the Nigerian Students Union in the UK.
This decision was made in response to a virtual meeting that was presided over by Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, and which Okeke, Yemi Soile, the President of the Nigerian Students Union UK, and a number of other concerned students attended.
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According to the meeting which was held on Sunday, In a statement on Wednesday, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, the spokesperson for NiDCOM, confirmed the scheduled intervention.
“To remain calm and not to take the law into their own hands,” Dabiri-Erewa encouraged the students.
She pleaded with Teesside University to act justly and fairly towards the student, Following a protest on May 22, 2024, by a few Nigerian students at Teesside University, the topic received notice.
The university administration had ordered the students to leave the UK due to non-payment of school fees by a few of them, and this sparked the protest.
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