… as the Barau Jibrin Foundation offers 1000 scholarships in Kano
The challenge of insecurity ravaging Northern Nigeria can be resolved through increased investment in the education of the citizens in the region, a senator representing Kano South Senatorial District has said.
The senator, Abdulraham Kawo Samila, made this observation on Saturday during the presentation of letters of admission to 1000 prospective students offered a scholarship by the Senator Barau Jibrin foundation in Kano.
Kawo said that most of the social, economic, and security challenges confronting most of the states in the region, can be attributed to the low level of investment in the education of the citizens ovover timeHe stated that one of the most effective ways of combating the various challenges confronting the region, particularly, that of insecurity, was for stakeholders in the region to support the government in providing education to the citizens.
The Senator, who represented the Deputy Resident of the Senator, Barau Jibrin, at the occasion, noted that human development is the surest way of empowering the citizens, which will enable them to become a positive agent of socialisation and development, as well as citizens who can advance democracy.
” I am delighted, and deeply appreciative of my senator colleague, Senator Barau Jibrin, the Deputy President of the Senate, whom I am representing at this occasion, for facilitating admission for the 1000 students into the Federal University, Dutse- Ma.
” This beneficial gesture by the Senator is a confirmation that we can challenge whatever is challenging us in Northern Nigeria through education. I commend Senator Barau for his relentless support for human capital development over time, since his assumption as a lawmaker.
” His investment in humanity overtime, remains one of the best ways to impact the citizens in a way that they can be useful to themselves, and become an instructment of socsilital development”, he further stated.
Kawo acknowledged what he said was the wisdom behind the move by the Federal Ministry of Education for taking education to the doorsteps of every Nigerian, by allowing Universities to open study centres across the country.
The support rendered by Senator Barau in giving admission to over 1000 students who will be studying in the over 20 Study Centres established by the Federal University, Dutse- Ma, in Kano, is a welcome development.
” I want to call on the beneficiaries of this gesture to reciprocate the gesture by ensuring that the face their studies, and come out with a flying colour, so that they can become someone empowering others in future”, he said
Speaking earlier. Mohmmad Abdullah, chief of staff to the deputy president of the Senate. Said that the foundation was established by the Senator, as part of his several initiatives geared at delivering dividends of democracy to the people of the State.
He explained that the scholarship was a follow-up to earlier gestures, which include the over 3000 students of the Federal University, who are on the foundation’s sponsorship, as well as the support given to the university to open the 20 study centres in Kano.
Abdullah noted that all the efforts made by Senator Barau to improve the socioeconomic well-being of the citizens of the state were a result of the support given by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The ceremony, which took place at Bayero University, Kano, was graced by Abdullahi Yusuf Ata, Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development, the current and former Vice-Chancellor of BUK, and other high-placed individuals.
Each of the 1000 beneficiaries of the scholarship programmes is to receive N160,000 for the four-year duration of their undergraduate programme at the Federal University of Dutse-ma.
