FG halts foreign scholarships, redirects funds home

The Federal Government is reviewing its foreign scholarship and bilateral education arrangements as part of efforts to eliminate unnecessary expenditure and redirect public resources towards strengthening Nigerian tertiary institutions, the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has said. Alausa said the government co

Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has declared that the federal government will no longer spend scarce public resources on what it considers unproductive foreign scholarship programmes.