Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba says he has spent Nl4 million in the past three years on his scholarship scheme for university students of Cross River Central senatorial district origin.
During the period, 91 university students had benefited, with each getting at least N30,000 per semester, said Edoma-Egba, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Publicity.
The senator announced this, Tuesday while submitting the report of the Victor Ndoma-Egba Scholarship Scheme Committee.
He said: “In four years of my tenure at the Senate, Central Senatorial District should have produced 120 quality graduates.
“If thy are injected into the national economy, at least one quarter of them will contribute to “ national development,†he told the committee members.
Ndoma-Eba said the scholarship scheme had been the most successful of all his programmes.
He appealed to Nigerian youths to rise to the challenges of development by taking their studies seriously./thetidenews.com/
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