Borno Government sponsors 20 female students to study Medicine in Sudan

The Borno State government has sponsored another set of 20 female students to study medicine in College of Medical Sciences, Khartum, Sudan.
While presenting the award letter and a laptop computer to each of the 20 female students at the Government House Maiduguri, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima said he was passionate about women education, as according to him, “when you educate a man, you educate an individual but when you educate a woman you educate a nation.
The Governor said “all of us are product of public schools and posterity will judge us harshly if we allow the public school system to collapse”.
He said the students were going there to study courses like Gynecology, pediatric and mammography among others, adding that the state government had earlier sent 30 female students to the same institution making the number 50.
Shettima also disclosed that public schools in the state which were closed down at the height of attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in the state would soon be re-opened and students would return to class.
Shettima also said that government was going to introduce feeding system in the public primary schools, adding that at least one meal per day would be introduced in Maiduguri Metropolitan council, Jere, Biu, Shani Kaga and Monguno as pilot projects.
He said that government was going to pay parents a stipend to encourage them to send their children and wards to schools, especially in the northern part of the state.
The governor said he was going to invest heavily on the programme because it was sensitive to gender empowerment and that developed countries like Sigapore and Korea were not endowed with natural resources but that they invested heavily on education.
“This is another milestone in our history; I am very passionate about gender empowerment, if we must develop as a state, we must take education of our daughters seriously because if you educate a woman, you would have empowered the entirely nation”, the governor added.
Earlier, the permanent secretary, ministry of higher education, Lawan Mamud Maina said the state spent N65 million per annum on 50 female students that were sent on scholarship to the College of Medicine Khartoum.

We gathered that the state government will spend $10,700 dollars on each of the 20 female students per annum.