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From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja
Barely 24 hours after repeated advisory offered by the management of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), against seeking educational succour in Northern Cyprus, another Nigerian student, Abdulsamad Abubakar has been reported missing in the country.
According to a statement by Head of Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit NiDCOM, Abuja, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, the emotionally disturbed mother of the 28-year old student, Mrs. Dije Ibraheem, cried to NIDCOM management on Friday pleading for the commission’s intervention in locating her only child. Narrating the family’s ordeal, the 54-year old trader, who hails from Kogi State, said she last spoke with her son on August 2, through another person’s phone number, where the son raised an alarm that “they have come to pick me up to a detention camp.” Ibrahim said Abdulsamad is a 300-Level International Relations student of Cyprus Science University (CSU) and was living off campus. She said since that call on August 2, 2022 from an unknown number, with her son wailing and asking for help, she has not known his whereabouts or heard any news from him or the school authorities. Confused on what to do, she reached out to the agent who secured the admission and travelling documents for her son, but he was not forthcoming too.
“I was advised to write a petition to Consular and Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which I did before someone hinted me that Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa advised Nigerians to be wary of Northern Cyprus, hence reaching out to her to help me out, “she said.
