Kogi releases N1.5bn for 2025 bursary registration, targets wider student coverage
Ahmed Usman Ododo, governor of Kogi State, has disclosed that his administration has released N1.5billion for 2025 bursary allowance for indigenes of the state studying in public tertiary institutions across the country.
Wemi Jones, Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, announced the exercise at a press briefing in Lokoja on Monday, as he urged the students to take advantage of the improved and transparent registration process, pointing out Governor Ododo’s commitment to making Kogi State a model for educational development in Nigeria.
Jones pointed out that the initiative, tagged Season Two, is designed to build on the successes of the previous phase.
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“Governor Ododo is determined to ensure that more students benefit from this bursary scheme. We expect the number of beneficiaries this year to surpass last year’s figure, and the funds are already set aside for disbursement,” he said.
“It is very important that we emphasis the need for a child to take it step by step. A child will first learn to sit, begin to craw and then begin to hold something to stand and begin to take steps one after the other, fall and make mistakes, then the child begins to run.
“Season 1 was our experimental year and we took significant lessons away. Afolabi Joseph-Raji is hard working and an efficient chairman of the Kofi Scholarship Board, will confirm to you that we have noticed gaps which this season 2 aims to address.
“On our part, we can only cover the gaps that we can cover, but NAKOSS have the bigger role of ensuring that students of Kogi State in tertiary institutions in Nigeria play their parts because if you do not play your part, there is absolutely nothing that anybody will do for you. Look at the analysis listed, the money was there, it was just for you to take it. We cannot pay money to ghost or people who are not verified.
“And we have a willing governor who has said when it comes to education, I am not going to spare one kobo towards ensuring that Kofi State becomes a reference point positively among states in Nigeria. We are doing fantastically well as far as Northern Nigeria is concerned. We want to extend our reach beyond Northern Nigeria”.
