Wike Offers Foreign Scholarship Award To 3 NYSC Presidential Honour Awardees
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has offered foreign scholarship to three indigenes of the State who are recipients of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Presidential Honour Award, saying that the State is proud of the selfless services rendered by the three awardees during their NYSC programme.
In a statement signed by the Special Assistant (Media), Rivers State Governor, Mr. Kelvin Ebiri, Governor Wike commended the Federal Government for offering the awardees automatic employment and said that the State Government has decided to offer them scholarship for Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in any University of their choice anywhere in the world.
He further said that once the awardees present their letter of admission to the Secretary to the State Government, their fees will be paid in full to prevent them being abandoned by the next administration, noting that the State Government has approved funds to the Ministry of Education to pay the tuition of Rivers State indigenes studying medical sciences at the PAMO University.
His words, “In the next few years, Rivers State will not lack doctors. Every year, we sponsor not less than 100 Rivers indigenes to study medicine and other related courses like pharmacy, medical laboratory. Now, that we have Rivers State University and we have a Medical College, in the next ten years, Rivers State will be exporting doctors.”
On his part, the Rivers State NYSC Coordinator, Chief Chinwendu Chukwu, said the awardees who observed their service at Jigawa, Yobe and Bayelsa States respectively, distinguished themselves by rendering selfless services during their national service programme.
Speaking on behalf of the awardees, Gilbert Kiaka Goodnews, explained that during his national service, he was able to offer free ICT training to over 200 students in Bayelsa State.According to him, another recipient of the presidential honour, Miss Worlu Aruchi Rachael, a lawyer, offered free legal services to 22 inmates and secured their release from jail in Yobe State.
Goodnews further explained that the third recipient, Jasper Deebari Uchenna during his national service discovered that most streets in the Jigawa State were not named and decided to name them.