At Last! FG Pays Allowances of scholarship students in Russia

 

This is the "dividends" of the power of the media. Following the report by Punch, the Federal Government has paid the eight months allowances it owed the 322 Nigerian students on the Bilateral Educational Agreement scholarship in Russia.

It was exclusively reported on Tuesday that the failure by the Federal Government to pay the allowances of the students had forced them into begging and resorting to illegal jobs, which put them at risk of deportation.

  The report embarrassed the government and those sitting on the money were forced to release it. As a result, on Thursday the students started getting credit alerts on their respective bank accounts.

One of the affected students, Moyosore Ojuri, who is in her second year studying Metallurgical Engineering at the Volgograd State Technical University, Russia, told our correspondent on the telephone that the sum of $4,450 had been paid into her bank account...

The money, she explained, included $4,000 meant for her stipends from January to August; $200 for annual medicals and health insurance, and $250 covering her annual protective clothing.

Ojuri said she hoped that the Federal Government would begin paying them their allowances as at when due and save them from undue hardships.

 “Before now, the Federal Government owed us from January to August. But now they have paid us everything. I can pay my accumulated debts and I am sure that I won’t be sent packing from the hostel over unpaid accommodation fees,” she said.

One of the student leaders, Akinola Akindamola, a post-graduate student of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Volgograd State Technical University, Russia, said he and other student leaders were going round to ensure that all of them, especially the new students, had received their allowances.  

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