Kwara State government has started the disbursement of 2023/2024 bursary grants to 9,989 final year students of Kwara State origin.
The awardees, whose identities were confirmed after the thorough screening of the 27, 314 total entries, were drawn from across the 16 local government areas of the state in various tertiary institutions in the country.
This was contained in a statement signed by the press secretary of the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Mansurat Amuda-Kannike.
“We have started paying the bursary award of N10,000 to each of the successful applicants, which was graciously approved by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.
“The payment began on Wednesday, March 27 and will continue until we finish the disbursement. We are paying directly to their accounts for transparency and accountability.
There are a few of these successful applicants whose account details are not correct. We will contact them,” the statement added.
She said 100,000 scholarship awards for the year 2022/2023 academic session for law students is also being disbursed directly to 107 successful applicants of Kwara State origin, as approved by the governor.
“This gesture was borne out of the governor’s magnanimity to put smiles on the faces of final year Kwara indigenes in tertiary institutions across the country,” it added.
“Many of the bursary applicants did not make the list on account of various irregularities such as missing out some columns in the course of registration, inputting invalid matriculation number, invalid Bank verification Number (BVN), or supplying inappropriate or dubious details/information, among others,” she said.
