
UPDATE: KWARA GOVT OFFERS FREE TRANSPORTATION TO STUDENTS
BY DAMILOLA . L
The Kwara State Government has said it will provide free transportation to all interested students of tertiary institutions in the Northern part of the country following the resumption for academic activities, As a demonstration of its favourable disposition to the plight of students.
The state Government made this pledge after the Academic Staff Union of Universities suspended its eight months industrial action.
The Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Dr Alabi Abolore, disclosed this at a meeting in Ilorin on Monday.
In a statement signed by a Press Secretary in the ministry, Mansurat Amuda-kannike, made available on Tuesday to the press, said, “The Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazak-led Administration is extending the dividends of democracy to Kwara State Students in tertiary institutions across the country.”
He further explained that concerned students travelling to the North are expected to appear for a brief documentation on the same day of their departure within the premises of the Ministry of Tertiary Education, along Offa Road, GRA, Ilorin, on Saturday, October 29, 2022 by 6:30am.
The commissioner disclosed further that the Ministry is also at the verge of concluding the bursary disbursement when online portal registration of would-be beneficiary is opened.
“On behalf of my Ministry, parents/guardians and great Nigerian students, we say a very big thank you, Your Excellency, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazak, for yet another awesome magnanimity and show of sincerity in taking Kwara of our dream to the promised land”, Abolore added.
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