The Kebbi State government has released N156 million for the payment of tuition and registration fees for indigent students of Kebbi state on scholarship in tertiary institutions within and outside the country.

Alhaji Murtala Yauri, the executive secretary of the state’s scholarship board told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi yesterday that the payment to each institution would be immediate. He said personal details of beneficiaries would be scrutinized to avoid irregularities.

Yauri said students who had earlier paid their tuition or registration fees would be refunded ``after showing evidence of such payment”.

He said N1.2 billion has been spent in the past two years on the payment of tuition and registration fees for students within and outside the country.

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