Osun pays N521m bursary to students

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola
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Osun State Government on Monday said it had paid N521m bursary to indigenes of the state in higher institutions.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr. Lawrence Oyeniran, who stated this in a statement, noted that 25,283 students benefited from the scheme.

Oyeniran explained that N275.7m was paid to final year students of the state origin in the nation’s tertiary institutions for the 2012/2013 academic session.

He added that a special grant of N17.3m was paid to students of the state in the Nigerian Law School for the 2012/ 2013.

Oyeniran noted that N208.6 million was paid to 20,215 final year students from 74 institutions and N18.5m to 185 law school students in five campuses last year.

He said, “What the Rauf Aregbesola-led administration has done with the payment of bursary  to the students is in compliance with one of the six-point integral action plan that focuses on the provision of functional education.

“We should not forget that N2,000 used to be paid as bursary to final year students in colleges of education, N3,000 to all undergraduates and N10,000 to law students and their counterparts in colleges of medicine.

“With the coming of Aregbesola, bursary award to student in tertiary institutions is now N10,000 flat, irrespective of the student’s course of study, while N20,000 is being paid to final year students of law and medicine. There has also been a review of the N10,000 to students of Nigerian law schools to N100,000.”