From HASSAN JIRGI, Damaturu
Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni has approved a grand ceremony to honour 17-year-old Nafisa Abdullah and 15-year-old Rukayya Fema for emerging world best in English Language skills and overall debate competitions respectively at the 2025 TeenEagle Global Finals in London, United Kingdom.
Nafisa and Rukayya, both from Yobe State, are students of the Nigerian Tulip International College, who represented Nigeria at the world competition to beat 20,000 participants from 69 countries.
A statement Signed by the Director-General of Press and Media Affairs to the governor, Mamman Mohammed, stated that Nafisa and Rukayya are beneficiaries of Governor Buni’s scholarship programme covering full tuition for 890 students at Nigeria Tulip International College.
Governor Buni described the outstanding performance as a great honour to the state and country.
The statement added that “these are great feats that make us proud and justifies government’s investment in the education sector”.
He assured that his administration would continue to subsidise education for every child to have the opportunity to go to school and appealed to parents for cooperation.
“Government has reconstructed schools destroyed by the protracted insurgency, provided furniture, books, laboratory equipment and employed more qualified teachers to improve the content of education in the state, and it is still a work in progress ” he said.
According to the statement, currently, there are about 40,000 students on government scholarship studying various courses in universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria and overseas.
It would be recalled that a few months ago, the state celebrated the graduation of 167 beneficiaries of the state-funded scholarship programme who graduated in medical sciences, computer science and engineering from Indian universities.
