UK: Nigerian Students Test Positive For Coronavirus

Nigerian students in the United Kingdom, beneficiaries of the 2019 Niger Delta Development Commission Scholarship Programme have tested positive for Coronavirus.

The four students were abandoned in the UK for eight months by the NDDC under Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, and the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, SaharaReporters gathered.

They were said to have contracted the virus while moving from one part of the UK to another to find means of survival. 

Speaking to newsmen, a colleague of the affected students said; “The students are currently being quarantined at one of the NHS centres in their neighbourhood. They have been fending for themselves and now, they have no money as they can’t go out to work.”

The identity and treatment centres of the Nigerians are kept hidden by authorities due to the Data Protection Act 2008. 

The students are appealing to the Nigerian Government for immediate intervention.