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The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Sunday Steve Karimi has set up a committee for the implementation of his yearly bursary award for students of Kogi West origin studying in public tertiary institutions across Nigeria.
A statement from his media office on Tuesday said under the scholarship scheme, each student will receive one hundred thousand Naira as bursary award.
With this, the statement added, no less than one thousand Kogi West students in public tertiary institutions are expected to benefit in the yearly initiative that is solely financed by Senator Sunday Steve Karimi.
“The committee for the bursary is comprises of people with proven integrity, very accountable, seasoned administrators, educationists and technocrats that were deliberately chosen. This will allow the committee to come up with fair and transparent modalities through which prospective beneficiaries would emerge without bias and any sentiment whatsoever,” the statement read.