Kwara state government has begun the payment of 2023/2024 bursary to final year students at tertiary institutions in the country and a total of 9,989 people, who are indigenes of the state, are the target beneficiaries.
The state Ministry of Tertiary Education in a statement issued in Ilorin which was made available to Team@orientactualmags.com on Friday by Mansurat Amuda-kannike, who is the ministry’s Press Secretary, also noted that the bursary recipients were sourced from the 27, 314 entry applicants from across the 16 local governments in the state.
‘ Having been graciously approved by His Excellency , Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, we have started paying the N10,000 bursary to each of the successful applicants’ the statement quoted the Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Dr. Mary Arinde to have submitted.
‘The payment of bursary began on Wednesday, 27th March, and it will continue until we finish the disbursement. We are paying directly to their bank accounts for transparency and accountability. There are a few of these successful applicants whose account details are not correct and we will contact them’ the commissioner added.
The statement added that having gotten the go-ahead from the governor, the N100,000 grant approved for the Law Students (year 2022/2023 academic session) is also being paid directly to the 107 successful applicants who are indigenes of Kwara state.
‘This kind gesture was because of the governor’s magnanimity and his commitment to putting a smile on the faces of final year students at tertiary institutions in the country who are Kwara indigenes’ it added.
The statement also quoted Dr. Arinde to have lauded the governor’s several support for the student community while noting that beneficiaries of the bursary are Kwarans who had registered on the portal opened for that purpose by the government.
The statement added that many of the bursary applicants did not make the list on account of various irregularities such as incomplete information, invalid matriculation numbers, invalid Bank verification Number (BVN), inappropriate or dubious details/information, among others-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
