The Federal Government has stepped in to address the recent deportation orders issued against some Nigerian students at Teesside University in the United Kingdom.

A delegation led by a representative of the Nigerian Embassy in the UK, Ambassador Christian Okeke, along with leaders of the Nigerian Students Union in the UK, will meet with the university’s management to seek a resolution.

This decision follows a virtual meeting chaired by the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, and attended by Okeke, the President of the Nigerian Students Union UK, Yemi Soile, and several affected students.

The meeting was held on Sunday.

The NiDCOM spokesperson, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, confirmed the planned intervention in a statement on Wednesday.

According to Balogun, during the meeting, the students described their experiences and expressed hope for a favourable outcome.

Dabiri-Erewa urged the students “to remain calm and not to take the law into their own hands.”

She appealed to Teesside University to treat the students fairly and justly.

The issue gained attention after some Nigerian students at Teesside University staged a protest on May 22, 2024.

The protest was in response to directives from the university authorities for the students to leave the UK, citing non-payment of school fees by some students.

You don’t have to go to university to succeed in life – UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak says

UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak has said people don’t have to go to the university to succeed in life.

Sunak, who is an alumni of Oxford University and Stanford University made the statement via his X’s official page on Wednesday, May 29.

This comes after he was reported that British ministers are set to ask the independent regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), to limit numbers on courses that do not have “good outcomes”.

According to the Prime minister, a large number of people are being “let down” by the current system, although for many people it is also “the right answer”.