Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has approved a grand ceremony to honour 17-year-old Nafisa Abdullah and 15-year-old Rukayya Muhammad Fema for emerging as the World’s best in English language skills and overall debate competitions, respectively, at the 2025 TeenEagle Global Finals in London, United Kingdom.
In a statement issued by Mamman Mohammed, Director General, Press and Media Affairs to the Governor Buni to newsmen in Maiduguri on Tuesday, Nafisa and Rukayya, both from Yobe State, students of Nigerian Tulip International College, who represented Nigeria at the World competition, beat 20,000 other participants from 69 Countries.
Nafisa and Rukayya both benefit from Governor Mai Mala Buni’s scholarship programme, covering full tuition for 890 students at the Nigeria Tulip International College.
Governor Buni described the outstanding performances as a great honour to the State and Country.
“These are great feats that make us proud and justify the government’s investment in the education sector”, Governor Buni said.
He assured that his administration would continue to subsidise education for every child in the State to have the opportunity to go to school, appealing to parents for cooperation.
“Government has reconstructed schools destroyed by the protracted insurgency, provided furniture, books, laboratory equipment and employed more qualified teachers to improve the quality of education in the state, and it is still a work in progress,” he said.
Currently, there are about 40,000 Yobe State students on Government scholarship studying various courses in Universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria and overseas.
It will be recalled that a few months ago Yobe State celebrated the graduation of 167 beneficiaries of the State-funded scholarship programme who graduated in Medical Sciences, Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Universities.
