By; IMRANA ABDULLAHI, Kaduna
Former governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has sponsored 600 indigent students to various institutions of learning within and outside Nigeria.
In the same vein, two separate sets of 30 and 22 students are currently studying at Al-Hikmah and Crown Hill Universities Ilorin, Kwara State, respectively.
Wamakko who himself is an educationist, also shoulders the responsibilities of 17 additional students studying Computer Science at Dialogue Computer Institute Kaduna, Kaduna State as another 45 students under his sponsorship were pursuing various degree programmes at the Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State.
The development was contained in a statement issued at the weekend by Almustapha Abubakar Alkali, Ag. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Basic Education, Sokoto State.
Alkali, a former Director of Administration in the office of Senator Wamakko said the unrivalled political leader in the state and a beacon of hope for the masses had also sponsored the first and second batches of 54 students were also sponsored for post graduate Degrees (Masters and PhDs) in various fields of studies at the Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna, Kaduna State.
While 15 indigent students were sponsored by the Senator for diploma programmes at the National Water Resources Institute Mando, Kaduna, Kaduna State.
Also on the roll of those sponsored by Wamakko are, 80 students for NCE at BIGA College, Sokoto and other institutions of learning within and outside Nigeria.
” All these giant strides of Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko are part of his dreams to see the children of the less privileged in the society especially in Sokoto state competing favourably with their peers in other states of the country”, Alkali pointed out.
Wamakko, has for long been sponsoring many indigent children from the state and beyond just to equip them to be more productive members in the society and as dependable drivers for a better Nigeria.
Remarkably, Wamakko’s demonstration of passion for education provoked his interest to initiate and establish one of the cheapest and first private universities located in Sokoto State “North West University, Sokoto” for knowledge, progress and excellence.
The university had already commenced its academic calendar for various degree programs in science courses.
The university is one of the cheapest institutions in terms of school fees and very accommodative in welcoming all decent, committed and prolific students.
