Ilorin – The Kwara State Scholarship Board said the delay in the payment of bursary to students was due to the financial crisis facing the state and the nation at large.
The Executive Secretary of the Board, Alhaji Fatahi Lamidi, made the explanation during interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Ilorin on Friday
He, however, promised that the State Government would resolve the problem as soon as the state was financially buoyant.
“We will pay all outstanding arrears of bursaries and scholarships to students in the state’s tertiary institutions as soon as possible.
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“The board is working towards it, we feel their pain and we are not happy not paying them their bursaries at the appropriate time.
“I appeal to the students to bear with the government and remain calm because very soon we will put smiles on their faces’’, he said.
Lamidi added that while the state government was determined to alleviate the sufferings of the affected students in tertiary institutions, it was also mindful of payment of outstanding salaries of civil servants and pensioners. (NAN)
