Nigerian table tennis players in ‘bad state’ in Bosnia

Concerns have been raised over the welfare of two Nigerian table tennis players, Alexandro Abia and Kennet Eboh, who have been stuck in Bosnia-Herzegovina since last month.  

Mr Abia and Mr Eboh say they were forcefully deported to Bosnia from Croatia, where they had been attending a university table tennis championship. The pair claim they were mistaken for illegal immigrants. 

In a BBC interview, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chair of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, said she had spoken to the students and that they were in a bad state. One of them had fainted while in a migrant camp in Bosnia, she said. 

Ms Dabiri-Erewa added that the Nigerian government would ask the European Union to intervene if the students were not returned home this week. The pair were supposed to be sent back on Friday. 

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