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The Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday unveiled successful candidates for the state government scholarship to study at Isaac Balami University of Aeronautics and Management (IBUAM), Africa’s first indigenous aviation university.

The governor also presented a cheque of N2.5 billion to the institution as payment for the beneficiaries’ annual school fees.

The unveiling and cheque presentation ceremony held at the Government House in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

Governor Zulum commended the founder of the university, Isaac Balami, for returning home with the scholarship initiative and for offering additional scholarships to 54 other indigent students from the state.

Zulum, who had directed that only vulnerable students be considered, personally interacted with the candidates; two of whom were shortlisted from each of Borno’s local government areas.

“I’m pleased to know that the admission process has been concluded. I congratulate all of you on your success,” [/b]the governor said.

[b]“What matters most is not just gaining admission, but how focused you will be in your studies. I advise you to remain dedicated and become good ambassadors of our state.”

The governor further announced a financial support of N500,000 for each student to assist with resumption expenses, directing that the funds be disbursed immediately.

In his remarks, the State Commissioner for Education, Engr. Lawan Abba Wakilbe, recalled the government’s commitment to ensuring the scholarship programme became a reality. He disclosed that over 3000 applications were received following a statewide advertisement inviting indigent students to apply.

According to him, 1200 applicants were shortlisted for a written examination as directed by the governor, after which 54 candidates emerged successful.

The Chairman and Founder of IBUAM, Isaac Balami, thanked Governor Zulum for fulfilling his scholarship pledge and assured him of the university’s commitment to producing highly skilled professionals who would contribute meaningfully to the state and nation.

“We will not fail you, Your Excellency. These students will be among those who will build the first made-in-Nigeria aircraft,” Balami said.

Recall that in addition to the 54 students sponsored by the state government, Balami personally offered scholarships to another 54 students as Aircraft technicians and planners.

He explained that his gesture was inspired by his personal experience as a young student who benefitted from a Borno State government scholarship during the administration of former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff.

“Having benefited from the state, it is only fair that I give back,” he said.

He further commended the Borno State Ministry of Education, particularly the commissioner, the permanent secretary, and the Executive Secretary of the scholarship board for what he described as professionalism and efficiency.

“The structure and system in place at the education ministry here in Borno is second to none. I’m impressed by the level of progress and organization. This is governance,” Balami added.

Addressing the beneficiaries, the aviator congratulated them and urged them to brace up for the academic and professional responsibilities ahead.

donleo92:
I like as borno just they do their thing!!!!

You won go school, they give you the chance and opportunity to go!!!!

If you won go learn bombing and banditry, school they for sambesis to learn that one too

donleo92:
I like as borno just they do their thing!!!!

You won go school, they give you the chance and opportunity to go!!!!

If you won go learn bombing and banditry, school they for sambesis to learn that one too

Babasessy:
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

                                                                             http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

Josywhyte:
Hahahahaha😂.....you no well I swear

Kaymax2222:
The north are very good at this things they offer there youth scholarship all over the world to study.

anonimi:
How have Borno APC governors been giving every single child the opportunity and chance to go to free primary, vocational and secondary schools?

Does the state have more than 5% of their schools owned by government, like progreThief Lagos State after 100 times increase in budget since 1999?

Have all the governors employed up to 19,500 teachers in the last 27 years? This is the number that PDP’s Makinde has employed in just five years without calling himself a progressive governor o.

Haydens:
These students will be among those who will build the first made-in-Nigeria aircraft,” Balami said.

So there's not been made in Nigeria aircraft? Wow. So all the taxpayers money is going to where ? Maybe France, maybe dealing and negotiations with Trump, maybe travelling, maybe Turkiye, maybe abroad hospital, maybe burdillion, maybe being kept for election and so on and so forth.

APeC is very wise and strategic.

Kaymax2222:
The north are very good at this things they offer there youth scholarship all over the world to study.

donleo92:
I like as borno just they do their thing!!!!

You won go school, they give you the chance and opportunity to go!!!!

If you won go learn bombing and banditry, school they for sambesis to learn that one too

donleo92:
I like as borno just they do their thing!!!!

You won go school, they give you the chance and opportunity to go!!!!

If you won go learn bombing and banditry, school they for sambesis to learn that one too

Bluntemperor:
Una don come, Please,Rest,
-How many States In The North Are really Involved in Real Education Development?
-Can you name them one after the other.
' Small yansh de shake 🪇'- for if they have been good , according to you,
- Why Is Their REGION Having More Poverty, Terrorism ,Kidnapping- for Ransome every where?
-Why Do We Have More of their Children Outside the Schools but many are in Almajiri ?
•Just 2- Days ago, NBILLIONS are being set aside for Fasting,when we know that most of this things are Not really Benefitting-Or Adding Up!
Or May be you should listen to one of the Governor- ( Bala) -Saying that ' Education Is Just A Formality ',
-If you are in that State would you Vote For Such A Governor,when you know his thoughts is not aligned with your Future and would you place your Chicken Education in his Care?
•Kudos to Zulum,may be because he is an Educationist!

anonimi:
Is this why they have a greater number of out of school children than the south?

Is this why they have lower Unity Schools cut off points

anonimi:
How have Borno APC governors been giving every single child the opportunity and chance to go to free primary, vocational and secondary schools?

Does the state have more than 5% of their schools owned by government, like progreThief Lagos State after 100 times increase in budget since 1999?

Have all the governors employed up to 19,500 teachers in the last 27 years? This is the number that PDP’s Makinde has employed in just five years without calling himself a progressive governor o.

donleo92:
Waytin you won make I talk??

That borno be like heaven on earth, and also hell on eqrth