Sokoto pays N3billion scholarship in two years

The Sokoto State Government has given a total of over N3billion worth of scholarships to its students from 2015 to date, the Executive Chairman of the State Scholarship Board, Hon. Altine Shehu Kajiji, has said.
Kajiji, in a statement issued on Sunday in Sokoto, disclosed that beneficiaries of the tuition fees and upkeep allowances included students from the state studying in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Turkey, Sudan, Antigua, Bangladesh, India, Uganda and Niger Republic.
He said it also included payments made to more than 10,000 Sokoto students in public and private schools across Nigeria.
He said, “Most of the tuition fees payments are up to date, especially for our students in Sudan and Niger Republic. Efforts have been intensified to make disbursements to students in places where we are not yet up to date in payments.
“As announced by Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal recently, arrangements are in place to send 200 students to India to study Medicine and related fields.”