Funmi Ogundare
The United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Culture al Affairs (ECA) yesterday disclosed that Nigerians and other international students contributed 42.4 billion dollars to the US in 2017/2018 session.
A senior official of the Bureau, who spoke on condition of anonymity, announced the figure during the tour of the US Community Colleges and Workforce Development programme in Washington D.C on Saturday.
The tour was organised by the Foreign Press Centre, Bureau of Public Affairs, US Department of State to provide foreign journalists with information on opportunity available to foreign students in community college in U.S.
The official said there were 1,094,792 international students studying in the US as of 2018 supporting more than 450,000 jobs in the US
He explained that the number of international students in the US in 2018 “surpassed one million for the third consecutive year.
”The number increased by…
