The Kano State Government said it plans to spend about N3.5 billion on foreign scholarships to 550 students for postgraduate programmes abroad.
Dr Yusuf Kofar-Mata, the state’s Commissioner for Higher Education, said this on Friday in Kano, when he spoke with newsmen after the weekly state executive council meeting.
Mr Kofar-Mata said that the students would study in seven universities in India and Uganda.
The commissioner said that the 550 beneficiaries were selected out of 1,250 students who applied for the scholarship.
He said that a level-playing ground was given to all the students, irrespective of their political affiliations, so long as the candidates were indigenous and qualified.
He said that the government had almost concluded processing the visas for the students, who would embark on the journey by end of the month.
