Sokoto state government has given approval for the transfer back home of 39 of its citizens currently in various schools in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
In today’s exchange rate, the move will enable the government save over N500m from the policy.
The government said this signals change of priorities in the payment of scholarship to study abroad.
“The transfer/relocation of the students was necessitated by the need to conserve funds and apply same to more critical areas in the education sector,” the state Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, said this Friday in Sokoto when he received the report of the committee instituted to advise government on the issue.
He added that admissions had been secured for all the students in Nigerian schools, while arrangements had been made to ensure that none of them missed a grade level upon their return home.
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