The Executive Secretary, Delta State Scholarship Board, Mr. Sunday Orishedere
ASABA/Nigeria: The Delta State Bursary and Scholarship Board says the agency has completed the payment of bursary for 2021 batch, while registration of students for the current circle ends on March 17.
The board has also setup bursary registration centers in tertiary institutions to ease the execution of the state Students Special Assistance Scheme.
The Executive Secretary Delta State Bursary and Scholarship Board Mr. Sunday Orishedere, made this known in Asaba, while speaking to journalists on the implimentation of the 2021/2022 bursary scheme.
Mr. Sunday Orishedere, noted that the registration centers were arranged following the partnership between the board and the National Identity Management Commission, which has strengthened the process of selection of the beneficiaries.
“Where they (students) would be paid nineteen thousand five hundred or twenty thousand, you must have used about six thousand to register for NIN and also for the bursary. In an attempt to save cost for students the board decided to set up Bursary Registration Centers where students can go and register seamlessly.”
Mr. Orishedere remarked that a total of eighteen thousand, seven hundred and sixty-one students qualified for bursary out of over twenty four thousand applications.
“Total number of students that applied was twenty four thousand, six hundred and twenty one. So, after the screening, eighteen thousand, seven hundred and sixty-one qualified for payment and that is the number of students that were paid.”
Mr. Sunday Orishedere added that the Scholarship Board had computerized the state bursary registration and payment systems to check attempts by unqualified persons to bypass it’s process.
