Nigeria Senate has passed for
second reading a bill to establish National Students Financial Aids Scheme.
Sponsor of the billl, Senator Isa
Hamman Misau representing Bauchi Central Senatorial district has explained that
the scheme would afford Nigeria students the opportunity to access educational
loans anywhere in the world.
He lamented that the conventional
scholarships offered Nigeria Students has collapsed, hence, students
particularly those studying abroad were often stranded.
The bill which was being
considered alongside Nigeria education bank Act, 2004 will afford eligible
Nigeria students in higher institutions to access loans.
Senator Misau was seeking the
repeal of Nigeria Education Bank Act, 2004 for a harmonious operations of the
two laws which he believed would solve difficulties by Nigeria students in
higher institutions.
“A bill for an Act to establish
the National Students Financial Aid Scheme to provide for the granting of loans
to eligible students at higher institutions and repeal the provisions of the
Nigeria Education Bank Act, 2004 and other matters connected therewith, 2017.”
While lending support to the
biil, Senator Sam Egwu (PDP), Ebonyi South Senatorial district recalled that he
benefited from scholarship in the old Anambra state.
The lawmaker said, the scheme
will help indegent poor students studying in higher institutions, saying that,
he took scholarships for students as priority when he governed Ebonyi state.
“Mr. President, distinguished
colleagues, I strongly support this bill. I came from a very poor family and I
benefitted from government scholarship in the University’, he pointed.
‘My father was a court bailiff
and after the war in 1970, he became a messenger, and I was almost stranded
when I finished my little savings after two years in the University before I
began accessing scholarship’, he added.
The bill scaled second reading
after the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki put it to voice votes.
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