Students Confirm Disbursement Of N800m Scholarship By Bauchi Governor

The National Union of Bauchi State Students (NUBASS) has confirmed that Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed’s medication has disbursed N800 cardinal arsenic portion of the 2024/2025 assistance strategy to indigent students crossed the country.

Speaking astatine a property league successful Bauchi connected Monday, NUBASS nationalist president, Comrade Bello Ibrahim Aliyu, described the improvement arsenic “historic successful some magnitude and impact,” stressing that the outgo represents renewed spot successful government’s committedness to education.

According to him, retired of the approved N945.25 cardinal for the scheme, N801.26 cardinal has already been disbursed to 19,546 verified beneficiaries drawn from 154 tertiary institutions nationwide. He added that the outstanding equilibrium of ₦145.25 cardinal would soon beryllium cleared.

“For excessively long, assistance payments had been marred by doubt, delay, and disappointment.

But today, nether the compassionate enactment of Governor Bala Mohammed, it has go a root of renewed anticipation and confidence,” Aliyu said.

The NUBASS president noted that the involution has eased the load of tuition, introspection fees, and surviving costs for thousands of students, adding that the strategy is the largest of its benignant successful Bauchi State’s history.

Aliyu further commended the politician for complementing the home-based assistance with overseas sponsorships, citing the caller sponsorship of 100 students to China for precocious studies arsenic a “visionary measurement toward planetary competitiveness.”

Beyond assistance matters, the national besides highlighted strides successful information interventions astir tertiary institutions, the renovation of its secretariat, and pupil empowerment initiatives specified arsenic escaped JAMB pin organisation and the maiden EDUTECH Conference.

“Governor Bala Mohammed has written his sanction successful golden successful the past of Bauchi State education,” Aliyu declared, portion assuring students that NUBASS would proceed to advocator for their welfare.