Nigeria: Rivers State Government Releases N1.4billion for Foreign Scholarship
Rivers State government has stated that it spent a whooping N1.4 billion on overseas scholarship for indigenes of the state.
Deputy governor of the state, Ipalibo Banigo, made this knownon Sunday, September 27, at St Paul’s Anglican Church, during a service to commemorate the nation’s 55th independence anniversary.
Banigo assured that Governor Nyesom Wike was committed to ensuring that the foreign students complete their programmes.
The deputy governor said: “His Excellency has spent N1.4 billion so far on overseas scholarships and just last Thursday, he released N491 million to make sure that every child of Rivers State schooling abroad received money.”