Jigawa State’s Scholarship Board has received over N774 million as scholarship allowance for the 2023 academic year for the students studying in the institutions across the country.This was disclosed by the executive secretary of the Jigawa state Scholarship board, Malam Sa’idu Magaji in an exclusive interview with Tribune Online in Dutse, said the board had already commenced the payment.The executive secretary explained; “The state government has released a total sum of N774,810,085.00k being the allowance for 26,835 students studying at different higher institutions in Nigeria”.According to him, “This amount for the 26,835 states’ indigens students studying at different higher institutions in the country, with exception of our foreign students”.Malam Sa’idu Magaji noted that the board had already commenced the payment to the beneficiaries students, “immediately we received the funds, we embarked on the payment as directed by his excellency governor Malam Umar Namadi”.He stated; “We scheduled our payment into three. Starting with students studying at institutions within the state who were more in number. While the second is those of neighboring Kano state and the third is the students of the Institutions outside JIgawa and Kano states.“We since finished with Jigawa and Kano states, they all received their allowances. We are now in other institutions across the country. Even as such we paid the students of Ahamadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Usman Danfodio (UDU) Sokoto and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (ATBU) Bauchi”.The executive secretary said; “So far we have paid over 95 percent of the students. They were all received their allowances, except some with peculiar problems of transaction failures”.He added; “What we are doing is that, when we got any complain of not be paid, we will checking our bank record to find out what is the problem. Mostly is failed transactions for a dormant account or not account holder etc and rectify it”.Malam Sa’idu Magaji expressed gratitude to governor Malam Umar Namadi for his support to the board and carrying it duty successfully .
