By Umar Faruk, Birnin Kebbi
No fewer than four hundred less privilege persons, orphans and widows of six LGAs of the state were offered free UTME JAMB forms and all expenses paid for education scholarship to those that passed screening exercise conducted in the state.
A philanthropist base in jega local government area of the state and chairman of M TECH foundation , Alhaji Manir Musa Jega expressed that the less privileged youth was selected based on screening exercise conducted with a view to gets genue needy persons or coming the less privileged home to give them free JAMB forms and scholarship who are brilliant but lack the financial assistant to pursue their educational careers in tertiary institutions across the states of the federation.
He however said that” persons that are successful selected are from six local government Areas of the state whom benefited with the scholarship and it includes Birnin Kebbi, Jega, Bunza, Maiyama, Aliero and Gwandu respectively. But all those that benefited with the scholarship was base on screening exams and the best out of them was selected.
According to Manir Jega, was to encourage them by offering them scholarship and my M TECH foundation have established UTME mock center to acquaint them with computer skills in order to successfully write the computer based examinations saying those successful would gets their scholarship paid into their chosen of University, polytechnic or College of Education in our dear country Nigeria.
The Chief Executive Officer of M TECH, Engineer Manir Musa Jega implored wealthy individuals in the society to assist the less privilege persons and those who are determined to study but their parents are not alive or lack the financial strength to sponsors them to further their education.
He them commended Kebbi State governor, Comrade Dr. Nasir Idris for investing heavily into education sector in just eight months in office as well as other sectors. He called on the people across the state to continue giving their support to the present administration with a view to get dividends of democracy as well as praying for peace and tranquility in the state and country in general.
