Governor Shettima awards scholarship to 2 overall best female graduates of the University of Maiduguri, to study Msc in the UK
Borno state Governor,
Hon Kashim Shettima has on Tuesday, May 17, presented cheques to 2 female
graduates who emerged as overall best students out of 37, 259 graduating
students of the University of Maiduguri at the just concluded 22nd combined
convocation to study Msc in the United Kindom.
Borno
state Commissioner for Higher education, Alhaji Ahmed Usman Jaha said the
presentation of cheques is based on the pledge made by the Governor to sponsor
the 2 overall best students (indigenes of Borno state) to further their studies
in some of the world's best Universities.
The Commissioner
enumerated that Fatima Zakari Abatcha is a first class student of the
Department of Computer Engineering who also emerged as the overall best
graduating student of the University during last combined convocation while
Ramatu Mustapha Goni is also a first class student of the Department of Geology
who came second to Fatima Abatcha with just a tiny difference of 0.01 GPA.
Fatima Zakari Abatcha
who is proceeding to Bradford University to study Msc in Computer Engineering
got the sum of N7,129,200.00 and Ramatu Mustapha Goni who will study Msc in
Petroleum & Geoscience Exploration got the sum of N11,450,000.00 as tuition
fee while Gov. Shettima on his own part, pledges to personally shoulder their
upkeep throughout the duration of their study and instantly gave an undisclosed
amount to both in line with his pledge.
The presentation was
made during a courtesy call to the Governor by 29 female Part 2 going to 3
medical students of the National University of Sudan who are being sponsored by
the Borno state government to study medicine, whom the Commissioner said, have
all successfully passed their examination.
While addressing the
prospective Msc students and medical students on attachment, Gov. Shettima
congratulated them for performing excellently well in their studies and
emphasis that his administration attaches great deal of premium to girl-child
education.
"If you educate a
man, you have educate an individual and if you educate girl, you have educated
a nation. Women form the basis of any civilization, they form the fulcrum of
every family and educating the girl-child is key in our quest to reposition our
society especially in the area of medicine and medical sciences in
general."he said.
He said the state
government had just approved the sum of 238 million Naira for the medical
students to enable them settle their tuition fee, cost of living and medical
allowances for the whole year and promised to visit them in Sudan very soon.
The 29 medical students
were in Maiduguri to undergo a 2 month compulsory hospital attachment while the
remaining 31 students who study in Elrazi University are yet to arrive.
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