THEY’RE OFF! The 70 Nigerian students who made Barbados their home for almost a year have flown back to Africa.
Around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, the group arrived at Grantley Adams International Airport to board a chartered flight. Already on board were 60 more Nigerians who had attended classes in Trinidad. The students took pictures of themselves alongside a few locals who had come to see them off.
The story of these students, part of the Delta State Youth Empowerment Programme, was a long one fraught with intrigue and accusations of wrongdoing, but they persevered, received their certificates from the Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity (BIMAP), and are finally on their way. (CA)
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