More than a hundred Nigerian students on scholarship in the UK faces the threat of deportation as early as next week, except if a miracle happens and their fees are settled immediately, according to UK tabloid The Telegraph.
The students are said to be sponsored by a regional agency and some of them are saddled with debts of up to £20,000.
The name of the sponsoring agency was not given in the report. The report described the students as “some of the Nigeria’s brightest undergraduates.”
They have been told that they will not receive their degree certification even though many of them completed their courses in the last academic year.
The newspaper said some of the affected students claimed they have been warned they could be deported by Friday, October 20. The High Commission said in a statement that additional funding had been approved for 87 students. There was no mention of how soon the bill would be paid.