Nigerian state spends $1.1 million on 62 medical students

Kebbi state government has released N176 million (over $1.1 million) for the payment of tuition and registration fees for 62 students sponsored to study in Indian and Sudanese universities.


The Executive Secretary of the state Scholarship Board, Alhaji Sahabi Birnin-Yauri, revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday.

He said 20 male students were studying in the Khartoum College of Medical Science while 12 females were at the Ahfad University for Women in Sudan.

"They will specialise in Dentistry, Human Medicine and Pharmacy."

Birnin-Yauri said 30 students were in the Bharati Vidyapeth University in India studying Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy.

He said that all the students were doing well in their studies in the universities.

"Additional students will be sponsored to foreign universities to study medicine, as part of efforts to end the dearth of doctors in the state by 2015."

He said 500 youths would also be sponsored to British universities to acquire different skills.

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