Nigerian BEA scholars turn to VeryDarkMan over years of unpaid federal stipends (Pictures) Nigerian students studying abroad under the Federal Government’s Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA) scholarship have taken their struggle to social media activist Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), as frustration mounts over what they describe as years of unpaid and short‑paid stipends. VeryDarkMan made this intervention public after filming with Nigerian BEA scholars in Morocco, where he had travelled for the Africa Cup of Nations. According to him, the meeting with the students was coincidental, but their accounts...