Cyprus: Another Nigerian student missing, as mother raises alarm

Barely 24 hours after an advisory offered by the management of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission against seeking education in Northern Cyprus, another Nigerian student, Abdulsamad Abubakar, has been reported missing in the country.

Abdulsamad is a 300-Level International Relations student of Cyprus Science University. He was until his reported disappearance living off-campus.

A statement by the Head of Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, on Saturday indicated that his mother, Dije Ibraheem, cried to the commission for intervention in locating her only child.

Balogun said Ibraheem last spoke with her 28-year-old son on the phone on August 2, when he pleaded with her mother to come for him.

It partly read, “According to the 54-year-old trader, who hails from Kogi State, she last spoke with her son on August 2, through another person’s phone number, when the son raised an alarm that they had come to pick me up to a detention camp” Punch