The administration of the immediate past Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, spent over N20 billion on 111,687
indigent students for overseas post-graduate scholarships in 14 countries, five private universities, the Nigerian Law School, and other internal universities from June 2015 to March 2023, a former commissioner has said.
The former Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs in Ganduje’s administration, Muhammad Garba, revealed this in a statement made available to The PUNCH against the background of a false claim by the New Nigeria Peoples Party that Ganduje did not pay foreign scholarships in his two-term administration of the state.
According to him, the amount covered tuition fees, upkeep, accommodation, and air tickets, among others, which was earmarked for students on post-graduate scholarships in India, Malaysia, Egypt, Cyprus, China, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, Togo, Ireland, Gambia, and Ukraine, as well as internal universities.
Garba said available records indicated that in addition to the above, the former administration equally sponsored 50 lecturers from its two universities and other tertiary institutions for their doctorate degrees in prestigious French universities under a programme that was a joint venture between the French and Kano State governments.
Similarly, the commissioner pointed out that over N600 million was also spent on the joint tuition-free postgraduate scholarship between the state government and the French Embassy in Nigeria.
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