The President of Nigerian Students in Europe, Muhammad Bashiru Saidu has commended Muhammed Idris Malagi for his plans to sponsor 500 Niger state students to study in Europe.
Malagi, who was a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is also the Publisher of Blueprint newspapers.
The newspaper guru has concluded plans to sponsor 500 students from across the 25 local government areas of the state, “the first-ever to be done by any single individual since the creation of the state.”
Commending Malagi, Saidu confirmed to newsmen that 70 percent of the arrangement for the project had been completed with over half of the students already scheduled for screening exams.
“As we speak, arrangement for the sponsorship has reached 70 percent completion stage.
“The scholarship will be in batches and this is a welcome development, especially where an indigenes of Niger state is giving his peoples such opportunities in the area of sending its students on scholarship to Europe.
“Malagi is worthy of commendation that this is coming from an individual. Our students in Niger state should be proud of this man who has seen the need for sponsoring desirous indigenes,” he said.
According to the President, the entire executive members of the body of Nigerian Students in Europe are happy with the development.
“We are generally happy with this onerous gesture by a philanthropist, a father and media guru who has offered to help Niger state students,” Saidu further said.
He also called on individuals and corporate organizations in Niger state to emulate Malagi by sponsoring students to study in Europe.
