ABIA STUDENTS IN LAW SCH & INDIA TO ENJOY BURSARY

REPORTER: PEACE AGBO

Abia State Government has approved payment of bursary awards to 271 students of Abia origin in various Law Schools across the country worth 70 million naira.

Briefing newsmen after this week’s Executive council meeting at the Government House, Umuahia, the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Prince Okey Kanu, said the Council also resolved to pay school fees for Abia students studying in India.

Prince Kanu, said the gesture was to enable the students to continue their studies in India, having been abandoned by the previous administration in the state.

The Commissioner, also announced that Abia State University Uturu had secured accreditation in 19 programmes for the institution.

He stated that the Executive Council expressed the willingness of the state government to support an Abia born international footballer, Frank Onyeka, to establish a football academy in the state.

The council directed the state Commissioner for Lands to process a Certificate of Occupancy, C-of-O, within 48 hours for the takeoff of the Academy in Umuahia or Aba.

The Commissioner said the State Ministry of Health had been working in synergy with NCDC, Abuja to prevent cholera outbreak, noting that no case had been recorded in the state.

EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU