Ukraine WAR, Nigerian students cry out for URGENT HELP: We are 87 Nigerians in hiding, trapped in a school basement in Kherson, our lives in danger -JEREMIAH Akpan, a stranded Nigerian second year maritime navigation undergraduate …lament: we tried to leave Ukraine thrice but got threatened at various checkpoints by Russian army wielding guns, some African students experienced failed attempts to escape at a particular third checkpoint where they were ordered out of the taxi by the (Russian) soldiers, first failed escape attempt happened on February 24 when the war had started * Fully armed Russian soldiers checked the students passports and bags, ordered them to return their luggage to the cab The driver was forced to return to Kherson while the students were blindfolded and held inside a military tank for about two hours The soldiers drove the tank to an unknown destination and shoved the students into a building The Russian army untied these exhausted students only to find themselves in a dark room with some Ukrainians *BY OLUYEMI OLAPADE, Reporting LIVE from Kherson, Ukraine
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