{"id":28702,"date":"2024-04-24T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/kebbi-governor-approves-n309m-for-foreign-scholarships\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:05:08","slug":"kebbi-governor-approves-n309m-for-foreign-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/kebbi-governor-approves-n309m-for-foreign-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Kebbi governor approves N309m for foreign scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kebbi State Governor, Dr Nasir Idris, has approved the sum of N309,584,041.80 for the payment of foreign scholarships for students from the state studying in India and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The State Commissioner of Higher Education, Alhaji Isah Abubakar-Tunga, announced this in Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner said, \u201cThe sum of N228,150,148:00 is for 63 students studying in India, while N81,433,893:80 is for 23 students studying in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe remaining 50 foreign students shall have their expenses settled within the shortest possible time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the commissioner, in February 2024, the governor paid local scholarships to all the state students studying in 36 tertiary institutions across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Ministry remained appreciative of all the efforts of the governor in the higher education sector.<\/p>\n<p>Kebbi governor approves N309m for foreign scholarships<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kebbi State Governor, Dr Nasir Idris, has approved the sum of N309,584,041.80 for the payment of foreign scholarships for students&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,15],"tags":[1497,180],"class_list":["post-28702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kebbi","category-news","tag-kebbi","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}