But one year after, her joy has turned into anxiety, worry, and depression. The reasons for her condition are quite enormous.
“I waited for two months expecting to get the take-off grant. When it was not forthcoming and I couldn’t wait, I had to raise funds to travel to the UK. We were paid the take-off grant just about four months ago. However, we have yet to get the tuition fees,” she told our correspondent. Coupled with the non-payment of her tuition fees, Awele also has no job to cater to her basic needs, which makes her feel more frustrated and depressed.
One of them is Olukayode Olugbemi, an Ondo State indigene who graduated from the Department of Law at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, in 2015 before proceeding to study Master’s of Law in International Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Olugbemi stated that some scholars were doing menial jobs to make a living but the jobs were lost when the COVID-19 pandemic began in the UK, adding that the only job that seemed available now was care home jobs.
He said, “If the Nigerian system had worked better, maybe I wouldn’t be in this mess. There was a scholarship I could have applied for that would cover all expenses. But when I applied for a transcript from my university, it took four months for it to be processed. By the time I was given the transcript, the scholarship was gone. I had no choice but to rely on the NDDC scholarship. Maybe if I had stayed in Nigeria to get other fully-funded scholarships, it would have been better.
“But guess what, my friend’s PhD was suspended last Wednesday because the school said they had given the NDDC enough time to make the payment but there had been no response. Her deadline was initially July 1 but it was shifted to July 22. My own deadline was July 28. It’s frustrating that our academic lives are being toyed with.”
Danor, who worked at a tank farm in Calabar, Cross River State, said he planned to marry after saving some money from the job. But when the scholarship offer came in August 2019, he resigned in September 2019 and travelled to the UK in October 2019.group of my local government area. People gave me money ranging from N1,000 to N10,000. My father also got a loan so I could travel but see what’s happening to me today,” he lamented.
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