Tinubu Broke Education Pact To Nigerian Students Abroad – Atiku

Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the administration of President Bola Tinubu of abandoning Nigerian students studying overseas under the Bilateral Education Agreement, BEA. He recently warned that the alleged breach has left about 1,600 young Nigerians stranded abroad and stripped of support.

According to him, the BEA scholarship scheme was quietly discontinued under the Tinubu administration without notice to parents or wards and without consideration for students already midway through their studies overseas.

He added that the decision has left beneficiary students abroad without stipends, with outstanding allowances now running into thousands of dollars per student.

His words, “What was initially described as a temporary five-year suspension soon metamorphosed into outright abandonment.

Their pleas are simple and desperate: pay the stipends owed, now more than $6,000 per student.

Yet from the corridors of power came a cold, technocratic explanation: scarce public funds must be managed ‘responsibly,’ and money meant to keep these students alive abroad should instead be redirected home.

The cruelty of the moment was sharpened by timing and tone. Hunger, rent arrears, and shame have become the daily companions of the beneficiary students.

In Morocco, one student did not survive the ordeal, dying in November last year and turning quiet suffering into public grief.

To anxious parents, it sounded like expulsion by neglect. Today, that pact lies broken.”

WOW.