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Donetsk
National Medical University
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Three hundred and
fifty Nigerian students are trapped in Ukraine’s troubled regions of
Donetsk and Lugansk, Nigeria’s foreign affairs ministry has disclosed,
according to TheCable reports.
The
ministry said the Ukrainian ministry of education and science had requested all
Nigerian students undergoing courses in higher institutions in two Ukrainian
crisis regions of Donetsk and Lugansk to urgently forward their names, passport
numbers, name of their institutions, courses, year of study and alternative
universities within Ukraine to either the ministry of foreign affairs, East and
Central European affairs division, Abuja or Nigerian embassy in Kiev.
Such
required details, it said, would enable the Ukrainian ministry of education and
science to transfer the students to universities in safer central and western
regions of the country to continue their studies.
“The
directive became necessary following heavy fighting between the Ukrainian
military and separatists in Donetsk and Lugansk regions, while the 2014/2015
academic session commenced on September 1, 2014,” it said.
“It
is estimated that there are 2,000 Nigerian students studying in various higher
institutions of the two regions, out of which about 1,650 had returned either
to Nigeria or had moved to safer places at the end of 2013/2014 academic
session. The remaining 350 Nigerian students were trapped in the two troubled
regions of Ukraine.”
The ministry of foreign
affairs urged parents and guardians whose children and wards were studying in
the two crisis regions of Ukraine to take urgent steps to get the information
across to them wherever they might be for “appropriate action”.
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