Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has approved and released N624.3m for payment of scholarship to 23,776 Borno State Students in 49 tertiary schools across Nigeria.
The State Commissioner for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation,Dr Babagana Mustapha Mallambe announced this in a statement on Sunday.
Mallambe disclosed that N320m have been disbursed to students in nine tertiary Institutions under the first batch while the sum of N304.3m will be disbursed in the second batch.
“From a total of N624,370,000 approved and released by His Excellency, Prof Babagana Umara Zulum, for scholarship to 23,776 Borno students, the ministry has disbursed N320m under the first batch, to students in nine tertiary schools located in Borno State.
He explained that those paid include part 4 and 5 students of University of Maiduguri, Borno State University, Ramat Polytechnic Maiduguri, Sir Kashim Ibrahim College, College of Education Waka – Biu, Mohammed Goni College of Legal and Islamic Studies, College of Business Administration Konduga, Umar Ibn Ibrahim College of Education, Science and Technology-Bama and those in Mohammet Lawan College of Agriculture.
The commissioner added, that from Monday, January 18, 2021, the ministry will begin the disbursement of another N304,370,000 to Borno students in 40 higher institutions across Nigeria.
Dr Babagana Mustapha Mallambe also disclosed that Governor Zulum had approved financial support to resident doctors of Borno origin located in different parts of the country, to enable them fund capacity development programmes that would be potentially beneficial to Borno people in the long run.
