The Northern group has criticised the Tinubu authorities for abandoning the Bilateral Training Treaty (BEA), accusing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of politicising the coverage.
The group additionally faulted the President for failing to deal with protests calling for the reinstatement of the programme.
The condemnation was contained in an announcement issued on Wednesday by Murtala Abubakar, president of the Arewa Protection League (ADL).
Abubakar stated the disaster affecting Nigerian college students overseas is unfolding quietly however is marked by hardship, humiliation, and unmet commitments.
He maintained that there’s nothing basically fallacious with the BEA Scholarship Programme, stressing that funding in training can’t be thought-about wasteful.
“Sure, this system has all the time struggled with delays and bureaucratic cruelty. However by no means earlier than has a Nigerian authorities so casually turned its again on college students already within the discipline, already dedicated, and already weak.
“A nation could abandon roads and refineries, however when it abandons its youngsters, particularly in international lands, it abandons its soul.
“It started when the Bola Tinubu administration abruptly scrapped the Bilateral Training Treaty (BEA) Scholarship Programme, a lifeline that had enabled hundreds of sensible however underprivileged Nigerians to enter school rooms throughout China, Russia, Morocco, Hungary, and past.
“President Tinubu has remained silent, enjoying politics with every thing. Not a phrase on the protests. Neither on starvation. Not a phrase on the ethical collapse of a program constructed on diplomacy and mutual respect. This silence is probably the loudest indictment of all,” he stated.
Politics Nigeria remembers that in Might 2025, the Minister of Training, Dr Tunji Alausa, introduced that the Federal Authorities would discontinue funding for international scholarship programmes.