FG releases N9b for scholarship allowances owed Nigerian students

- The minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu, says N9.5 billion has been released by the federal government to clear backlog of scholarship allowances

- Adamu says the fund is meant for scholarship allowances owned Nigerian students at home and abroad

- The minister urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities and Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic to call of their prolonged strikes

The federal government has said it has released N9.5 billion for the payment of backlog of scholarship allowances owed Nigerian students at home and abroad up to December 2018.

The minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who was represented by Alhaja Asta Ndajiwo, the director, Federal Scholarship Board, disclosed this during a press conference in Abuja at the weekend, News Agency of Nigeria reports.

Legit.ng gathers that Adamu said that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari had already expended over N800 million in 2018 for the payment of scholarship stipends to students at home and abroad.

According to him, with the current release, the administration will be spending a total of N10 billion for payment of scholarship to students in the 2018 budget “and we are determined to do more’’.

He said: ”Let me use this opportunity to direct the scholarship board to immediately undertake all due processes required to clear the backlog of scholarship allowances owed Nigerian students both home and abroad. The Federal Government has already released the sum of N9,752,000 for this purpose.

”In the third edition of our weekend press briefing, I informed you that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has already expended over N800 million in payment of scholarship stipend.

Adamu said that the board had inherited scholarship liabilities from the scheme operated by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

He said that these liabilities should be thoroughly verified before payment, adding that the board must ascertain that the admissions of such scholars were still valid and that the scholars were still currently pursuing their programmes.

He said that the number of scholarship applicants had risen to 30,000 as against the usual 12,000 applicants for the four scholarship schemes.

The minister therefore appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) to call off their prolonged strikes in the interest of Nigeria, parents and students.

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Nigeria has four scholarship opportunities which can be enjoyed by students to further their academic pursuits.

They are the Commonwealth scholarship, the Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA) scholarship, the Federal Government scholarship and the Sustainable Development Goals scholarship.

However, the qualifying examination for the commonwealth scholarship had just taken place in Abuja on January 17.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the federal government spent over N3 billion on 2,953 Nigerian students studying abroad under three scholarship arrangements, namely federal government scholarship, the Bilateral Education Agreement and the Commonwealth Scholarship scheme.

The disclosure was made in Abuja by the minister of education, Adamu Adamu. The minister, who made the disclosure during a press conference noted that the government had so far spent N800 million in the current 2018/2019 academic year.

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