The Kebbi state Commissioner of Information and Culture, Alhaji Yakubu Ahmed BK has sponsored 14 vulnerable girls from poor background to tertiary institutions in the state.
This was contained in a statement by the Media Aide to the commissioner, Lukman Hassan and made available to Analyzer news on Saturday.
According to the statement, the sponsorship was in fulfillment of the promise made by the commissioner to the girls when he paid a visit to Magajin Rafi Model School, Tudun Wada Birnin Kebbi – venue of a skills acquisition program arranged for girls in the neighborhood.
During the visit, Yakubu Ahmed met a group of over 200 girls who lamented their inability to further their education based on the poor status of their parents and he promised to assist them.
The Commissioner, upon hearing their pitiable story, inquired how many of them had the requisite SSCE grades and was surprised when many of theme raised their fingers, with most of them lamenting that they could not secure admissions because their parents were either late or very poor to fund their education.
Alhaji Yakubu Ahmed who expressed sadness over their plight promptly undertook to personally secure admissions and pay for the admission forms and registration fees for some of them.
At the time he went to work to get the admissions, the Federal University Birnin Kebbi, the state University and the state College of Nursing Sciences have already completed intake and have long started lectures.
Only the Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic Birnin Kebhi was still admitting and he quickly got admission for 14 of them to read various courses.
The admission papers were presented to the happy girls yesterday by Muhammad Abubakar, an aide of the Commissioner who conveyed the Commissioner’s pledge to repeat the same exercise in the coming years.
