Delta State Government Evacuates 73 Students from Adamawa State due to Insurgency

The delta state government recently evacuated 73 students of delta state origin studying in the troubled Adamawa state.

While speaking shortly after their arrival, the commissioner, Bureau for Special Duties, Delta State Pastor Powell Ojogho, said that moves are on to absorb the students in Delta state owned higher institutions.

“We will first identify the courses they are studying over there and also get some documents from them to show that they were actually students and see if we have those courses here in our schools, universities/polytechnics, colleges of education and we will absorb them”.


He called on delta state students in northern state affected by book haram activities to return home.

The president of National Association of Delta Students (NADESTU), Federal Polytechnic, Mubi Chapter, Comrade Jeffery James, who spoke to journalist, recounted their ugly experiences in the hand of the terrorists and how they lost two of their colleagues in the hands of the insurgency.