Borno state Governor, Hon Kashim Shettima has on Tuesday, May 17, presented
cheques to 2 female graduates who emerged as overall best students out
of 37, 259 graduating students of the University of Maiduguri at the
just concluded 22nd combined convocation to study Msc in the United
Kindom.
The
Commissioner enumerated that Fatima Zakari Abatcha is a first class
student of the Department of Computer Engineering who also emerged as
the overall best graduating student of the University during last
combined convocation while Ramatu Mustapha Goni is also a first class
student of the Department of Geology who came second to Fatima Abatcha
with just a tiny difference of 0.01 GPA.
Fatima Zakari Abatcha
who is proceeding to Bradford University to study Msc in Computer
Engineering got the sum of N7,129,200.00 and Ramatu Mustapha Goni who
will study Msc in Petroleum & Geoscience Exploration got the sum of
N11,450,000.00 as tuition fee while Gov. Shettima on his own part,
pledges to personally shoulder their upkeep throughout the duration of
their study and instantly gave an undisclosed amount to both in line
with his pledge.
The presentation was made during a courtesy call
to the Governor by 29 female Part 2 going to 3 medical students of the
National University of Sudan who are being sponsored by the Borno state
government to study medicine, whom the Commissioner said, have all
successfully passed their examination.
While addressing the
prospective Msc students and medical students on attachment, Gov.
Shettima congratulated them for performing excellently well in their
studies and emphasis that his administration attaches great deal of
premium to girl-child education.
"If you educate a man,
you have educate an individual and if you educate girl, you have
educated a nation. Women form the basis of any civilization, they form
the fulcrum of every family and educating the girl-child is key in our
quest to reposition our society especially in the area of medicine and
medical sciences in general."he said.
He said the state government had
just approved the sum of 238 million Naira for the medical students to
enable them settle their tuition fee, cost of living and medical
allowances for the whole year and promised to visit them in Sudan very
soon.
The 29 medical students were in Maiduguri to undergo a 2
month compulsory hospital attachment while the remaining 31 students who
study in Elrazi University are yet to arrive.
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