More than 40 Nigerian students are suing Alabama State University for allegedly incorrectly using millions of dollars in scholarship funds provided by their country's government and discriminating against them.

Godsgift Moses, Promise Owei, Savior Samuel, Success Jumbo, Thankgod Harold, and 36 other students filed their claim in federal court, alleging the school took advantage of them because they were 'black foreigners', according to the Daily Beast.

The group of exchange students say the school purposefully overcharged them by making them pay more for meals and books, while also signing them up for classes they never took.

Alabama State University, one of America's 100 historic black colleges and universities, took on the students after the Nigerian government forked over millions of dollars upfront in 2013 to fund the exchange program.

More than 40 Nigerian students are suing Alabama State University (pictured) for allegedly taking millions in scholarship funds and discriminating against them

A group of the students suing the school are seen with their lawyer outside the federal courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama

Each student was also allocated $32,000 per semester to cover costs. Any money left over was meant to be refunded to them, but students claim they never saw the excess cash, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.

The newspaper also claims the plaintiffs believe they are owed about $865,000.

Jimmy Iwezu, a former student at ASU, says it was clear 'they wanted our money'.

'They called us cash cows,' Iwezu told the Daily Beast. 'The school compelled us to buy books from the book store and eat only at the cafeteria.

'I tried to make them understand, "Hey, we don’t want to live in the dorms anymore, and we don’t want to eat our entire meals at the dorms."

'They make us pay $3,000 [a semester] to live in the dorms, and that is more than a mortgage on homes in this area.

Success Edward Jumbo (pictured), one of the students suing the school, says he was charged living expenses by the school for more than a year after he moved to an apartment off-campus

Promise Owei (pictured) is one of the 41 students who say the excess cash from the $32,000 per semester to cover costs was not refunded to them by the university

'I’m a black man and I’m proud to be black, but I felt discriminated against... enough is enough.'

Another former student, Kehinde Batife, said he was furious the school tried to take advantage of him and others.

'I’ve been here three years and I’m a super intelligent person... I’m not nosy, but I ask questions, and this school thought we don’t know anything and they could do whatever they want to us,' he told the Daily Beast.

'They tell me, "You’re a resident of the scholarship." So they think they can do whatever they want with the money [Nigeria] gives them… I’m not going to let them treat us like animals.'

Saviour Samuel (pictured) is also suing the school. The lawyer representing them, Julian McPhillips, said the school had taken money that was meant to go into his clients' pockets

The lawyer representing the group of students, Julian McPhillips, said the school had taken money that was meant to go into his clients' pockets.

'The Nigerian government paid a whole bunch of money, well over a million dollars, for their educations here, and it specified that the money not only go for tuition,' McPhillips told WSFA earlier this year.

'Alabama State is taking that, but also some extra monies that were supposed to go to them for living expenses, and these living expenses amounted to money that was supposed to go to them directly in pocket for expenses that they encountered.'

Success Jumbo, another student in the complaint, said he had not been living on campus since 2014 but still had costs taken out of his allotted funds for it.

Thankgod Harold (pictured) is suing Alabama State University. Another former student, Kehinde Batife, said the school tried to treat them like animals

'I've suffered a lot,' Jumbo told the Montgomery Advertiser.

'I got married May 2014. I’ve approached ASU on several occasions, I even took my wife and my baby to them and said, "Look, I no longer live on campus. I believe you guys understand the importance of being married. I need to get this money so I can use it to pay for my housing elsewhere.".'

In 2015, ASU reportedly denied a request from McPhillips to refund: 'tuition, books, room and board, especially for the summer semesters of 2015 and 2016, and all personal expenses not used'.

The school denied, according to the Daily Beast, with general counsel Kenneth Thomas saying: 'There is no financial agreement between the University and the individual Nigerian students.'

It also claimed the Nigerian government told the school to: 'Hold on to the funds until instructions are given on the process of refunds.'