Overseas Students From Sokoto Left Without Scholarship Funding

Governor Aliyu Wamakko
By SaharaReporters, New York

Governor Aliyu Wamakko and the Sokoto State Government are forcing sponsored students to fend for themselves abroad.

Sokoto State government, like others in Nigeria, sponsors the overseas education of a number of students each year, with the hope that the state will see a return on its investment. Sokoto State currently has students in programs in the UK, USA, Europe, and Malaysia, among other countries.

However, for the past year these overseas students have not been paid by the government, which has negatively affected their studies. Just last month, Gov. Wamakko, announced the release of N1.5 billion to cover payments of all overseas students. This announcement came just before he traveled to the UK.

While there, Gov. Wamako met with some Sokoto State students, assuring them that all debts would paid within two weeks. He also expressed his displeasure at the delay and praised the patience displayed by the students, considering the fact that a number of their courses are critical to development plans for the state. It has been over a month now, and the students are still yet to receive any payments.

In the last weeks, Gov. Aliyu Wamakko announced, in the state media, another approval of N3 billion for all outstanding payments. However, the students had been left out of the payment schedule. The debacle has caused a group of students to return home and for others, who stay abroad, have been forced to take extra work to make ends meet, hoping that soon the payments will arrive.

The payment problem have left many students wondering whether in fact,  the Governor released he money, and it is being held up by the Ministry of Finance or the whole promise of payments was just the usual political propaganda.

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wammako he is not pay

I'm shamsu from sokoto state indigiene of south sincerely speaking our governor aliyu assigned scholarship board 2 collect the student credential since last 2 years , about taking student 4 outside for going there doing thre bsc , but scholarship hve done this and trying there best effort 4 this getting admission and do everything for d student school send offer of admission , to the scholarship , the chairman and secretary assigned the student 4 doing I passpoert , since d time of 2 known there's no any imformation , governor announced that he approve 1.5billion since september 2012 but the money not yet and scholarship not see everything , sahara reporters please I swear the governor just propangand for this he has not paid anything just lied becouse was not good leader

I can't believe that this is

I can't believe that this is actually happening. It's just a handful of students and the state can't afford to pay for them? What kind of world rules this country? I guess if I was a student here I would probably go for a job in finance, I would have the chance to set some order for a change.

He only pays for students who gave him his GAY services when....

Wammako is lying, he is not ready to pay the students. He has being doing such stories of release of found for several times but nothing has been done yet. He's just deceiving people. He only pays for students who gave him his GAY services when ever he travelled to their respective countries. This is very clear and its well known to everybody. And its very easy for one to get this payment if he's ready to join the governor's Gay services team on his arrival to their country of studies. I challenge everyone to contact the chairman of the scholarship board on 08051339180 or the secretary on 08037790259 or the director international students on 08094748220 and ask if any payment has been made from July 2009 to date. Not only forcing them to work to meet their ends, many of the students of sokoto state origin were in various prison in the world for various visa issues due to the failure of state government to pay their fees. This is the true story.

Sheik Ahmed Aliyu Wamakko is

Sheik Ahmed Aliyu Wamakko is not a true Muslim. Why does he send those young moslems to get western education? Doesn't he know that Nigeria is in turmoil today because of Boko (western education)? Can somebody tell the sheik that Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in Northern Nigeria?

His whole scholarship scheme is a way of skimming away our oil money in the name of acquiring western education. What happened to the madrasas that Saudi Arabia built for them so that they will never again look into western education?

Haba mallam, our oil money continues to go to Awusa Foolani corruption.

@osama dandare

It is not like me to persist on matters like this but when confronted with a hard skin not prepared to bow out gracefully there is little option but to imbibe a little bit of culture into you. You and your kinsmen are constantly enveloped in an atmosphere of inferiorty and this has made you, as a matter of habit, distrustful and disdainful of other pple´s judgements, impatient with their opinions and finally simply murderous, the pple of the south are asking you to stop dipping your sticky fingers into their pockets and you are getting over the top. Leave the south with it´s kidnappers now, go and have your arewa where is the problem?

@jamilu SOKOTO

Congrats and Thank allah for your one in a million status Allah akubar. The germans have a saying, "a blind hen can from time to time find corn". Why do you think the southerners have to do menial jobs to finance their livings and studies? I´ll tell you MR Masters Degree because your fathers and fore fathers, IBb, Buhari, Abubakar, Rilwan, Abacha ....brought Nigeria to where it is today. ode

I really don´t mind pple giving carelessly their honest/own money out, what gets me started is, giving others pple´s money senselessly out.

 

some nigerians are fools

Some nigerians are fools espcially u how on the earth could scold you said that to ur brothers who are nigerian instead to show them ur symphaty we don't do this to our brothers in my country but nigerians hate among themselfs shame on you man and you want to stay united why abusing each other fools fools fools shame shame

no wonder

I am very sure you are not a legal resident in europe, that's the main reason why you never saw any Hausa/fulani in any acedemic space cos you can't move freely around with the fear of your fake documents. The international government is taking measures to get hold of illegal migrants like you, don't worry you will soon be deported back to akwa where you belonged and take over your father's kidnapping business he inherited from your fore fathers. Monkey in europe

You know nothing but hate.

You know nothing but hate. Shame on you.

Well I don't blame you

Well I don't blame you because it seems you don't even know what you are talking about. I am an indigene of sokoto state and have studied in the UK with Masters Degree of which right now I left some so called southerners who claimed they are well educated struggling to finish their programmes just because they are busy doing menial jobs instead of focusing on their studies. Although I agree with you on one aspect that we spend money anyhow abroad, that is because we believe that the significant of money is to get you want you want when you want it at any price. That is a hausa man for you. So I rest my case.

Immediate Deportation

Why send mollas who are naturally allergic to education  to the western world to study? No wonder they turn to underwear bombers cos they are simply overwhelmed by the intellectual and social challenges they are exposed to. What unis do they attend? In my donkey years all over Europe, studying and working, i´ve not met till this very day a single hausa/foolani in any academic space. You only see them with their masqueraded wives in malls and high streets spending money as if there is no tomorrow. Just yesterday one of their kinsmen was caught on cctv in Bonn trying to detonate an IED. Send them ALL back to their natural enviroment and let them do what they do best---cattle rearing, killing,maiming and destroying.

Greedy Governor

Sahara reporters you have said the truth about sokoto state foreign students,but his children that study abroad and those that are his boys don't suffer this.let me tell you the governor is not even in town,he was said to have travelled to India for a reason best known to him,coz it was not announced as usual and he travelled with more than twenty aides.God dey

SEND THEM TO SAUDI OR PAKISTAN

Sokoto governor should send the students to Saudi, Pakistan, or Somalia. They don't need western education. They need koran.After all, they have been taking billion dollars of Nigeria money to Saudi for years.Let Arabs inject koran in their heads, western education is a sin.

HOW ABOUT THE MONEY THEY TAKE TO SAUDI

How about the money they take to Saudi every yeaar. The money these northern fools take to Saudi every year can sustain these students for five years. Instead of arabs to help them now, they give them guns to destroy themselves. I met a muslim from Kano state last year and asked him what Saudi had done to develop the northern states, he said Saudi built mosques in Kano. It was then that I concluded that northern muslims are fools. In this modern age, mosques are the only gifts arabs can give them.

They Should be true.

If they are funding the students the government
should be real and show integrity.

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REALLY?

You guys should go and jobs like everybody else; Lazy MotherF.... oil money spenders.

Using SS&SE Oil money to sponsor suicide bombers

Where did barren Sokoto state get N1.5 billion naira to sponsor its students who come last in classes abroad?

This is how they waste SS&SE oil money on men who squat to urinate like donkeys. No wonder they have no value for life & reason like donkeys too.

The party is over.

Take a look at the statistics of Regional contribution to the Continent's treasury:

1. South South Country (SS) ---> 62%
2. South East Country (SE) ---> 36.5%
3. South West Country (SW) ---> 1.5 %
4. North East Country (NE) ---> 0%
5. North West Country (NW) ---> 0%
6. North Central Country (NC) -->0%

What is the use of regions/countries 3-6?

The SS&SE cannot continue with these barren people. IMPOSSIBLE.

Long live the United States of the SS&SE

Na our oil money abi...

This is how they squander our oil wealth of the SE. They use our money to educate bonobos who only knowledge is to rear rams and detonate bombs at will. One would have thought they will go to saudi arabia, pakistan, iraq and other mohammedan nations to learn sharia but rather they prefer to go to country of infidels. Hypocrites! This is what one naija is all about. Naija is a big fraud and seccesion is the way forward. May lord federick luggard roast in hell and may all his generations never know no peace for merging Biafra with lazy Yorubas crooks and Hausa-fulani north blood suckers.

Long live Arewa 'sharia' republic. Long live the republic of Biafra. Death to Yorubas one sham nigeria. All say Amen!!!

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