The chief secretary (ES), Kaduna State Scholarship and Loans Board, Prof Yahya Ibrahim, has stated that the Governor Uba Sani-led administration has expanded scholarships to distant native authorities areas and people from humble backgrounds with out decreasing requirements.
He added that college students in distant rural communities are actually benefitting from overseas scholarships which has expanded and enriched the Kaduna State Scholarship award system.
Prof Ibrahim who said this yesterday throughout a information convention in Kaduna, maintained that Governor Sani has refocused the scholarship board to mirror his administration’s coverage of inclusion with out sacrificing advantage.
The ES argued that the final set of beneficiaries who graduated as medical medical doctors confirmed that the decrease section of Kaduna State was carried alongside within the choice course of.
Prof Ibrahim recommended the governor for giving the younger medical medical doctors employments to spice up the inventory of personnel in public hospitals.
“Prior to now, beneficiaries of overseas scholarships have been largely from city native governments like Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Igabi, Zaria, Sabon Gari, Jema’a and Zangon Kataf. However the all-inclusive authorities of Senator Uba Sani modified the narrative throughout the shortest time.
“Previous to the approaching of Governor Sani, the beneficiaries have been largely from higher and middle-class households who attended elite secondary faculties and whose mother and father can sponsor their wards to any college overseas.
“For instance, there was a feminine beneficiary who lived in Tv Village, Kaduna, whose father is deceased among the many new medical medical doctors.
“There’s one other one from Jaba native authorities whose father is a retired civil servant.
“From Ikara native authorities, there’s additionally somebody who benefited from the overseas scholarship whose father can be a retired civil servant, and at this time, he’s a medical physician,” he famous.
