Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Ododo, has accepted the sum of N316 million for the disbursement of bursaries to eight,750 undergraduate college students from the state who’ve been efficiently verified.
The state’s Commissioner for Schooling, Mr Wemi Jones, disclosed this at a press convention on Friday in Lokoja.
Jones stated, “Out of over 40,000 undergraduate college students who utilized on-line for the 2024 Bursary Award, solely 8,750 have totally uploaded the required paperwork and have been verified.”
He additional defined that, of the 8,750 college students, 8,549 would obtain N30,000 every, totalling N256 million, whereas the remaining 201, who’re Regulation college students, would obtain N300,000 every, totalling N60.3 million.
The commissioner assured that the beneficiaries would begin receiving alerts inside the subsequent two weeks.
He reaffirmed the dedication of the present administration beneath Governor Ododo’s management to prioritise schooling and cut back the variety of out-of-school kids to a minimal within the state.
The commissioner additionally offered a supplementary cheque of N5 million to Miss Favour Adebayo, a Kogi indigene at the moment on scholarship in Poland.
Jones stated the governor had graciously accepted the disbursement of N5 million to the awardee for making the state proud by successful the European Union Erasmus+ Scholarship to review in Poland.
Whereas presenting the N5 million cheque to the daddy of the awardee, Mr Moses Adebayo, on behalf of the governor, Jones acknowledged that the N5 million would complement the scholarship awarded to her by the European Union.
In his remarks, the Govt Chairman of the Kogi State Scholarship Board, Mr Afolabi Joseph-Raji, recommended the governor for his dedication to academic improvement within the state by way of varied scholarship awards.
Joseph-Raji famous that Miss Favour had received a scholarship as one of the best general scholar throughout her 300 Degree research at Nasarawa State College by way of an alternate programme with Poland.
He stated the offered funds would complement her tuition, lodging, and different scholarship wants.
Joseph-Raji reiterated the state authorities’s dedication, by way of the Board, to make sure that each Kogi scholar attains educational success and turns into accountable.
In his response, Favour’s father, Mr Moses Adebayo, expressed his gratitude to the governor for his assist in the direction of his daughter, assuring that she would proceed to make the state proud