By Oke Uje


The Delta State Government under the leadership of two former Governors of the state, James Onanefe Ibori and Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, placed education as a focal point of its governance before the arrival of the current Governor of the State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, who has also done well in terms of education.

Prior to Okowa's administration, there was numerous scholarship schemes by the state government which includes; the Delta State Bursary, DESOPADEC Bursary and Scholarship for First Class Graduates of Delta State origin. It is no doubt that these scholarships and the state educational policies augmented the growth of the educational sector in the state that eventually made the state rank among the bests in terms of literacy and education in Nigeria from 1999 to 2015.

However, despite these scholarships made available for Deltans by the state government, Nigerian Law School (NLS) Students of Delta State origin were neglected by the Ibori and Uduaghan's administrations, thereby leaving the Students/Aspirants to solely fund the high cost of attending NLS and being called to Bar.

For one to attend the Nigerian Law School and be called to Bar, it will cost an Aspirant closely #500,000 (five hundred thousand naira), and that is why some states government make necessary provisions to assisting their indigenes with financial aids ranging from #150,000 (one hundred and fifty thousand naira) to #1,000,000 (one millionaire naira). The Northern states that are not as rich as Delta state are not left out in awarding financial aids to their Indigenes turned bar Aspirants.

When Okowa was sworn in as the Governor of Delta State on the 29th of May 2015, Law Students thought he would do something about the "neglect" but he never did. He failed to render any financial aid or scholarship to 2015, 2016 and 2017 NLS Students and bar Aspirants of Delta State origin.

In 2018, after several agitations by over 300 2017/2018 NLS Students of Delta State origin from the six NLS campuses across the country; Abuja, Kano, Lagos, Enugu, Yenagoa and Yola campuses, Aspirants who would be called to bar on the 27th, 28th and 29th of November 2018 respectively, thought things will change for the better and that they would be awarded financial aid by the Okowa led administration. But to their shock, the state government is indifferent and adamant over the matter.

They did their best by notifying the NLS through persons selected among themselves, to forward their names to the Delta State Government, which NLS did but nothing has been done by the state government concerning the matter.

Despite the disappointment, they are pleading with the state government to assist them financially so that they can fund their call to bar expenses. The state government must know that most of the Aspirants' Parents are down financially after spending a whole lot of money while they were still students in the Nigerian Law School.



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Mynd44

Why are you people like this?
Go to all the tertiary institutions in Nigeria and you'd discover that it is only Delta indigenes that act like their academic existence depends on bursaries.

Go and ask students of Abia origin if they've ever smelt bursary.
Because Ibori and Uduaghan did it does not make it a norm my brother. Neither is it your entitlement.
I am happy your law background taught you about rights and privileges.
Ogbeni, state bursary is not your right!

Every Government has it's own priority,
Uduaghan mounted large screens around the state for youths to watch free English Premiership match but Okowa has chosen to tar all the roads in Ika North

This is an irrelevant emotional blackmail.
Governor Okowa did not send you to law school neither will you use your law degree to help the state through free legal services.

Your type that likes awoof will never assist anyone.
If you can't afford it; drop out or do Babi Allah.

Period.

How sure are you?

NwaAmaikpe:




Why are you people like this?
Go to all the tertiary institutions in Nigeria and you'd discover that it is only Delta indigenes that act like their academic existence depends on bursaries.

Go and ask students of Abia origin if they've ever smelt bursary.
Because Ibori and Uduaghan did it does not make it a norm my brother. Neither is it your entitlement.
I am happy your law background taught you about rights and privileges.
Ogbeni, state bursary is not your right!

Every Government has it's own priority,
Uduaghan mounted large screens around the state for youths to watch free English Premiership match but Okowa has chosen to tar all the roads in Ika North

This is an irrelevant emotional blackmail.
Governor Okowa did not send you to law school neither will you use your law degree to help the state through free legal services.

Your type that likes awoof will never assist anyone.
If you can't afford it; drop out or do Babi Allah.

Period.

Beautifully said.
When Buhari referred to Nigerian youths as lazy,
His mouth was in fact pointed to Delta State.