NAN-H-138
Scholarships
Dutse, March 6, 2017 (NAN) The jigawa state government has settled backlog of scholarships allowance amounting to N153million for students studying in various tertiary institutions within and outside the country.
The Executive secretary of the state Scholarships Board, Ahaji Babandi Abubakar, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Thursday.
He said that the state had over 10,000 of its students studying in the country and abroad, adding that no Jigawa student on government sponsorship studying abroad was being owed any allowance.
” We will continue to settle scholarships allowance to indigenes studying in foreign countries as against the action of some states that withdrew their students due to the economic recession,” said Abubakar.
Meanwhile, Yobe Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam has approved the sum of over N417 million for payment of scholarships to 21, 109 students in 50 institutions of higher learning across the country.
Alhaji Abdullahi Bego, Director of Press Affairs to the governor, stated this on Thursday in a statement in Damaturu. (NAN)
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