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Jigawa state government is to spend over seven hundred and twenty million naira to sponsor 60 students to study Medicine in the People’s Republic of China.
Commissioner for Health Dr Abba Zakari stated this today at a meeting with the benefitting candidates of the scholarship.
Dr Abba Zakari explained that the state government had earlier announced its intention to sponsor students to study medicine abroad in which 3,700 sat for the examination, and 60 among them were selected.
He said the meeting with the prospective students today was to intimate them with the necessary information for documentation.
The commissioner noted that state government will commence the screening of another sets of student mostly females to study nursing and midwifery.
Also speaking the commissioner of Education, Science and Technology Hajia Rabi Isaq represented by the permanent secretary Malam Abdullahi Hudu charged the students to be good ambassadors while in china.