TWO VISITING government officials from Nigeria’s Delta State met for several hours yesterday with Minister of Foreign Affairs Senator Maxine McClean at her Culloden Road, St Michael office.
Delta State’s attorney general Charles Ajuya and the commissioner of education Charles Emetulu, as well as education programme organiser Donna St Hill attended the meeting, which the DAILY NATION understands was to discuss the status of the Nigerian students in Barbados.
The two officials arrived in Barbados on Tuesday and had separate meetings with the main student body at Casa Grande Hotel, and the seven who are at a St James guest house and who have been resisting an order to return home.
Reports indicate they were also supposed to meet with the seven again last night.
St Hill, who resides in South Africa, organised the student programme, which saw 87 Nigerians arriving here last December to undertake studies at the Barbados Community College. Seven have since returned home.
However, the programme, which was being funded by Delta State to the tune of $10 million, had been clouded in controversy and the students are yet to attend a single class. (MB)
