Foundation offers scholarship to 20 IDPs

The MaiGoje Foundation has offered scholarship to 20 students from indigent families in communities affected by Boko Haram in Gujba and Gulani local government areas of Yobe State.

The Chairman of the foundation, Mohammed Goje, a Yobe-based philanthropist, said the scholarship was his contribution to facilitate educational recovery in the Boko Haram ravaged communities.

Goje said the situation had affected many students who had the zeal to further their studies but could not afford the cost.

“We bought JAMB forms for the indigent students and paid registration fees for those who secured admissions,” he said, adding that as a beneficiary of Yobe foreign scholarship, the bursary award to indigent students was the only way to affirm his appreciation to the people of the state.

“I will increase the number of beneficiaries next year as resources improve,” he said.

He commended the Yobe State Government for supporting students on foreign studies to build capacity and improve manpower.

He said from 1991 to 2007, there was no single Yobe student studying abroad, that between 2007 and 2009 there were five students there, but that under Governor Ibrahim Gaidam’s administration, “which I am also a beneficiary, the number rose to 1,240 out of which 31 are doctorate students.”