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Kebbi Govt Spends N122.9m On School Fees For Foreign Studies

By: Agency Report on July 6, 2013 - 12:55pm

The Executive Secretary of the state Scholarship Board, Alhaji Murtala Yauri, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria  (NAN) in Birnin Kebbi.

He said 32 of the students were in  Khartoum College of Medical Science and Ahfad University for Women, Oundurman,  Sudan,  undergoing courses in Dentistry, Human Medicine and Pharmacy.

Yauri said that N11.62 million was paid to the universities as tuition fees and other charges.

He said 30 students were studying Medicine, Dentistry Science and Pharmacy at Bharati Vidyapeth University, India.

He said the state government had  recently approved additional foreign sponsorship of 100 students to pursue degrees in  Computer Science, Engineering and Medical Sciences.

He said the state government would also sponsor 38 students to Egyptian universities to study medicine.

He said the effort was aimed at improving the number of  medical doctors and other professionals in the state.

``We will adequately arrest the dearth of doctors and other professionals in our hospitals and the economic sector." 

NAN reports that the state government has so far sponsored 332 students to pursue medical courses in foreign universities, while 100 were offered sponsorships to study sciences in the North-West University, Kano.(NAN)