Sokoto Pays N900,000000 As Tuition Fees For Indigent Students
By Onuminya Ochowechi In Sokoto
The Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has paid all the outstanding backlog of Indigent students registration fees of previous years up to 2020 to the tune of nine hundred million naira (N900,000,000) to Usmanu Danfodiyo University and Sokoto state University. While those verified by the Board recently for 2021 academic session from the two institutions and Shehu Shagari College of Education will soon be settled .
In a similar vain the Governor has directed and approved the visitation , assessment and verification of all fresh students from Sokoto state in other tertiary institutions within the state and across the Country from 2019 to 2021 academic sessions.
In a statement by the public relations officer of the state scholarship board Isa Shuni said the exercise which is expected to commence soonest will ensure the refund of registration fees to all he verified and cleared students at the end.
According to the statement, recently , the State government has Sponsored 100 students to study Science based and Paramedical courses at Al-Istikama University in Kano. The program which will cost the State government the sum of One hundred and eleven million naira (N111, 000,000) annual includes payment of tuition and registration fees , accommodations and monthly upkeep of thirty thousand naira (N30,000) to each of the students.
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The students were since conveyed to Kano through the air due to prevailing security situation in the zone , after a flag off ceremony performed by the State Governor with an appealed to them to pay attention to their studies .
Accordingly the State Government has approved the release of another woofing sum of twenty two million five hundred thousand naira (N22,500,000) for the payment of registration fees and purchase of one set of computer laptop to each of the forty six students to pursue one year mandatory professional course at Law School Abuja .
The Executive Chairman of the Sokoto State Scholarship Board , Alhaji Altine Shehu Kajiji, added that ,the Governor has also approved the payment of all the outstanding fees for the remaining State Students in Crescent University , Abeokuta as well as French Students of Nigerian French Language College in Badagry , Lagos State .
Kajiji expressed the government commitment to ensure that all outstanding fees for the Indigent students sponsored by Tambuwal led administration will be paid before the hand over in 2023 .
While assuring the state government desire to provide enough and qualified manpower especially in the area of Health sector in the state , Kajiji appealed to the state sponsored students both within and outside the country to continue to reciprocate government huge investment in their education by re dedicating to their studies and maintain the good culture of Sokoto State and to come back home after their studies to contribute their quota in the State .
