Diverse categories of students, together with foreigners, benefited from the scholarship.
The Ahmadu Bello College (ABU), Zaria, has awarded scholarships to 107 students, together with foreigners, the indigent ones, and these with special needs.
Auwalu Umar, Director Public Affairs Directorate of the university, acknowledged in an announcement on Friday in Zaria that 49 postgraduate distant places students benefitted from the plan.
Mr Umar added that others were 42 undergraduate distant places students, 10 Nigerian students, and 6 undergraduate indigent students.
He acknowledged the vice-chancellor, Kabiru Bala, a professor, while presenting the award letters to the beneficiaries, acknowledged the plan used to be in step with the yearnings of the founding fathers of the university.
In accordance to the statement, the vice-chancellor also made it certain that the doorways of the university were opened to ladies and males of thoroughly different races, and that used to be why the university prolonged the hand of lend a hand to basically the most inclined students.
Mr Bala, represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Lecturers, Raymond Bako, a professor, added that the scholarship used to be not coming in cash, quite, through any components to toughen students to excel.
“There is always ability in disability, the sky is the starting point for all students with special needs,” he acknowledged.
The vice-chancellor enjoined distant places students to be correct ambassadors of the university of their respective international locations after the completion of their reviews.
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The statement also quoted the Director, Counseling and Human Building Centre, Sa’adatu Muhammad-Makarfi, as asserting that the university determined that distant places students both undergraduate and postgraduate pay the the same amount as indigenous students.
This, in accordance to her, is with a seek for to reducing the burden on them due to the harsh financial field of the nation.
Ms Muhammad-Makarfi acknowledged for faculty students with special needs, the university had paid complete tuition charges and accommodation for some, while for these that had already paid their tuition charges, the university had lined their accommodation.
Also speaking, the President of Students with Particular Needs, Mustapha Yahaya, expressed gratitude to the university for taking a witness into their plights.
Mr Yahaya acknowledged students with special needs within the university were more than 15 and appealed to the institution’s management to lengthen the scholarship to others.
