GOVERNOR Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has approved a grand ceremony to honour 17-year-old Nafisa Abdullahi Aminu and 15-year-old Rukayya Muhammad Fema for emerging World best in English language skills and overall debate competitions respectively at the 2025 TeenEagle Global Finals in London, United Kingdom.
A press statement signed by Mamman Mohammed, DG Press and Media Affairs to Governor Buni, said Nafisa and Rukayya, both from Yobe State, are students of the Nigerian Tulip International College, who represented Nigeria at the World competition to beat 20,000 participants from 69 countries. They are both beneficiaries of the Gov. Mai Mala Buni’s scholarship programme covering full tuition for 890 students at the Nigeria Tulip International College.
The governor described the outstanding performances as a great honour to the state and country. “These are great feats that make us proud and justifies the government’s investment in the education sector,” the statement quoted Governor Buni to have stated.
He assured that his administration would continue to subsidise education for every child in the state to have the opportunity to go to school, and appealed to parents for cooperation.
“Government has reconstructed schools destroyed by the protracted insurgency, provided furniture, books, laboratory equipment and employed more qualified teachers to improve the quality content of education in the state, and it is still a work in progress,” he said.
Currently, there are about 40,000 Yobe State students on government scholarship studying various courses in universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria and overseas.
It would be recalled that a few months ago, the state celebrated the graduation of 167 beneficiaries of the state-funded scholarship programme who graduated in medical sciences, computer science and engineering from Indian universities.
