Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has endorsed the installment of bursary and nearby grant to Lagos State indigenes in tertiary establishments the nation over. Exceptional Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank-Olemoh, who made the declaration to columnists on Monday, said the bursary would be for crisp recipients and others accepting ensuing installment.
He recorded the recipients to incorporate 2015/2016 set and different sets getting second and third installments for the years 2013/2014 and 2014/2015. While focusing on the dedication of the State Government to maintain the grant and bursary plot notwithstanding the financial circumstance of the nation, Bank-Olemoh said the Governor is focused on guaranteeing Lagosians are enabled through instruction to contribute profitably to the neighborhood and worldwide economies.
He facilitate said that "the convenient arrival of the honors exhibits the need the organization of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode accords to teaching its natives". Giving a breakdown of the installment, the Executive Secretary of Lagos State Scholarship Board, Mr. Steven Oshinowo, clarified that the State Government would dispense Two Hundred and Fifty Million, Five Hundred and Twenty-Three Thousand, Two Hundred and Eighty-Seven Naira and Ninety-Nine kobo (N250, 523, 287.99) to Six Thousand, Three Hundred and Sixty (6,368) recipients as Bursary Award.
He additionally revealed that One Hundred and Thirty Million, One Hundred and Sixty-six Thousand, Three Hundred and Eighty-six Naira Fifty-six kobo (N130, 166, 386.56) in Local Scholarships will be dispensed to Five Hundred and Seventy-three (573) effective applicants who partook in the 2015/2016 Local Scholarship Computer Based Screening test. These entireties, as per him, would suit the accumulation of remarkable bursary and grant installments, and in addition current honors for new and resulting recipients.
The Executive Secretary encouraged the recipients to practice tolerance as payment of the assets will start in three weeks, at which time recipients would be welcome to display important documentation to get their bursary or grant grants. It will be reviewed that recently, more than 689 bursary recipients of 2011/2012 set, were paid alongside 60 understudies from the School of the Blind and 54 others on Sport Scholarship. In 2015, the State government likewise paid N660 million to more than 8,567 poor recipients for bursary, neighborhood and remote Scholarships.
Since its foundation in 1968, the Lagos State Scholarship Board as an organization in charge of the organization of bursary and grant grants in the State, has been steady in doing its obligations and is ready to proceed.
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