Katsina State
Government has released over N500 million as part payment of fees for its
students abroad, the Special Adviser to the state governor on Higher Education,
Dr. Badamsi Lawal Charanchi -who represented the Executive Governor, has said.
Speaking
at the start of a four day 9th joint colleges’ conference of Hassan Usman
Katsina Polytechnic, Katsina, Charanchi said the government is working towards
meeting all its obligations to the 140 indigenes of the state studying in
various tertiary institutions in Jordan, Sudan and Maradi in neighbouring Niger
Republic.
Quoting
the statistics to buttress the fact that the top priority of Governor Aminu
Bello Masari administration is education, Charanchi stressed that the
government is laying a solid foundation for the overall development of
education and other sectors in the state.
The
governor’s aide, who urged the staff of polytechnic and other tertiary
institutions owned by the state to join hands with the government to reposition
the education sector, noted that almost all allowances of the teaching and
non-teaching staff of the institutions had been settled by the government.
He
assured that in spite of the economic recession confronting the country,
Governor Masari had been working relentlessly to move the state forward.
In
her speech, the Katsina State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Halimatu
Sa’adiyya Idris, expressed confidence that the conference would contribute its
quota to efforts designed to address the myriads of socio-economic problems
facing the state and nation.
Dr.
Martins Iyoboyi, Department of Economics, Federal University Dutsinama, called
on both the state and federal government to spare no effort in tackling
insecurity and all issues critical in the drive to move Nigeria forward.
(Culled
from Leadership)
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