Katsina State Governor, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari has approved the payment of bursary and Foreign scholarship to katsina State indigenes in tertiary institutions across the world.
Special Adviser to the Governor on on Higher Education, Dr. Badamsi Lawal Charanchi, who made the announcement in Katsina , said Katsina State Government has released over N500 million as part payment of fees for its students abroad
Dr Badamasi Speaking at the start of a four day 9th jointcolleges’ conference of Hassan UsmanKatsina Polytechnic, Katsina, Charanchi said the government is working towards meeting all its obligations to the 140 indigenes of the state studying in various tertiary institutions in Jordan, Sudan and Maradi in neighbouring Niger Republic.
Quoting the statistics to buttress the fact
that the top priority of Governor Aminu Bello Masari administration is education,
Charanchi stressed that the government is
laying a solid foundation for the overall
development of education and other sectors in the state.
The governor’s aide, who urged the staff of
polytechnic and other tertiary institutions
owned by the state to join hands with the
government to reposition the education
sector, noted that almost all allowances of
the teaching and non-teaching staff of the
institutions had been settled by the
government.
He assured that in spite of the economic
recession confronting the country, Governor Masari had been working relentlessly to move the state forward.
In her speech, the Katsina State
Commissioner for Education, Prof. Halimatu Sa’adiyya Idris, expressed confidence that the conference would contribute its quota to efforts designed to address the myriads of socio-economic problems facing the state and nation.
Dr. Martins Iyoboyi, Department of
Economics, Federal University Dutsinama,
called on both the state and federal
government to spare no effort in tackling
insecurity and all issues critical in the drive
to move Nigeria forward.
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