628 Bayero University Students Get Scholarships

Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, has offered scholarships to 628 undergraduates of the Bayero University Kano (BUK).

The students, who were selected from Kano North Senatorial District, where the lawmaker represents, were given N50,000 each.

While flagging off the scheme at the School of Containing Education, BUK, the Chief of Staff to the Deputy President of the Senate, Muhammad Ibn Abdullahi said the scheme was conceived by the Deputy President of the Senate to support his constituents to pursue their studies in various tertiary institutions in the country.

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The statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Deputy President of the Senate on Media and Publicity, Ismail Mudashir, a copy made available to pressmen in Kano said the gesture would be extended to all students from Kano North Senatorial District in all tertiary institutions in the country.

He said this scholarship scheme was conceived to empower undergraduates from Kano North Senatorial District. Each of the students will receive N50,000 courtesy of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin.

He added that the gesture is not only for the students of BUK, but that every student from Kano North that is studying in Nigeria will benefit from this scheme.

Senator Jibrin then urged the beneficiaries to take advantage of the gesture and study hard for them to excel in their academic pursuit.

Speaking on the occasion, one of the beneficiaries, Adama Iliyasu Rabiu, a 400 level student thanked the Deputy President of the Senate for the gesture.