Bayelsa State Government has decided to stop forthwith all foreign scholarships at undergraduate level to indigenes of the state as is the case with some states in the country.
According to reports, the state government took the action in reaction to reports saying it allegedly neglected students from the state currently on scholarship at the Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, United States.
However, the State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Jonathan Obuebite in a statement described such report as not only false and malicious but a calculated attempt to blackmail and embarrass the Governor Dickson’s led restoration government.
Obuebite maintained that the students were at no time abandoned as the state government has been in constant touch with the university.
He further added that the governor has already approved and authorized the release of the sum of two hundred million naira to be paid to the institution.
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