Uba Sani invests over N1 billion in scholarships in three years

Governor Uba Sani’s medication has invested implicit N1 cardinal successful scholarships, pupil loans and acquisition enactment programmes wrong the past 3 years. 

This concern has importantly expanded entree to higher acquisition and eased the fiscal load connected students crossed the state.

The Commissioner for Information and Culture, Malam Ahmed Maiyaki, who made the disclosure portion interacting with journalists successful Kaduna on Thursday, described acquisition arsenic a cardinal pillar of Governor Uba Sani’s quality superior improvement agenda.

According to the Commissioner, 1 of the administration’s landmark interventions was the signing of an Executive Order reducing tuition fees by 50 per cent crossed each Kaduna State-owned tertiary institutions, a determination aimed astatine making higher acquisition much affordable and accessible to students from divers socio-economic backgrounds.

Maiyaki revealed that the authorities authorities has spent N493.27 cardinal connected overseas scholarships for 42 students pursuing studies successful captious fields specified arsenic medicine, machine science, cybersecurity, engineering and different strategical disciplines.

He further disclosed that N425.52 cardinal has bee...