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    Nigerian students 'make up 75%' of Thornaby charity's clients
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    Nigerian students ‘make up 75%’ of Thornaby charity’s clients

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    1. amoskt15041991 on

      surely to study in the UK they’d need to have some basic level of income or savings if they wanna come here without working? Why is the charity sector picking up the slack? I understand the financial imbalance
      Between the UK & Nigeria but this just makes no sense to me

    2. _Rookwood_ on

      The article doesn’t explore the huge number of dependents Nigerian students have brought in with them. I wonder if that would be a factor?

    4. SnooOpinions8790 on

      I hate the fact that there are British people depending on food banks and I consider it a stain on our society

      But when it comes to foreign students who hit a currency crisis I think that is exactly what charity is for. Its not for the British taxpayer to fund foreign students but if the charitable choose to help them out that’s great and a very generous gesture.

    5. Various_Geologist_99 on

      Mass migration is a disaster. We really need to get back to a sensible number of carefully selected migrants or the whole ruddy show is going to explode.

    6. RemarkableGur493 on

      If you can no longer afford to study here you should go home. If you no longer satisfy the conditions of your visa (whether due to FX movements or otherwise) you should go or be sent home.

    8. Particular-Solid4069 on

      When they aren’t sponging from us their scamming us….. Great.

    9. pu55y_5l4y3r_69 on

      Wouldn’t be a problem if universities were free (like they should be)

    10. LSL3587 on

      To convert the BBC figures of

      *Nigeria is currently experiencing its worst economic crisis in a generation, with the value of the naira depreciating by more than 200% against the dollar in the past 12 months.*

      to something that makes more sense to most people, they mean the Nigerian Naira has lost about 65% of its value against the US Dollar (and the UK pound as USD and GBP maintained similar rates to each other). Or the US Dollar has risen more than 200% against the Nigerian Naira.

    11. _kevin_on_the_ledge_ on

      the naira devaluation is really shitty but much of this couldve been solved if they transferred their savings to gbp in a uk bank account