By FESTUS AHON
UGHELLI—THE Delta State Government, Thursday, disbursed over N100 million to about 900 law students of the state origin.

At the disbursement, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan increased the financial assistance from N50,0000 per student earlier approved to N100,000.

He said the increment was with immediate effect, adding that the additional N50,000 would later be released to the students by the State Bursary and Scholarship Board.

Uduaghan said: “As part of our avowed commitment on human capital development in Delta State, we are here today to give financial assistance to students of Delta State origin studying in Nigerian Law School. This is in recognition of the high financial burden our students have to go through while studying in the law schools.”

Explaining that the financial assistance by the government may not be enough to foot all their bills in the law school, he said the gesture was to ease their economic burden, while in school.

According to him, a good education was equal to a good job, holding that; “if we want more good news on the job front, then we have got to make more investment in education.”

Saying that; “this financial assistance will be given to over 883 students of April, 2009/2010, April 2010/2011 and October, 2010/2011 batches respectively,” the Governor urged the awardees to be good ambassadors of the State.

Earlier in his speech, the State Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof Hope Eghagha said the State Government spends over N1billion annually to provide financial assistance to students of the state origin studying in tertiary institutions within and outside the country.

Thanking Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for the gesture aimed at alleviating the sufferings of the Students, Eghagha appealed to corporate organizations, well meaning individuals and all stakeholders in the education industry to support government effort in providing financial assistance to their students.