By Clement Abayomi
The Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, has announced President Tinubu’s commitment to continue funding the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) to drive social and economic growth in the Niger Delta.
This development was made known in an interactive session with scholarship students in London. The event took place while Tinubu was on a state visit to the United Kingdom.
At the meeting, students presented an award to Tinubu to thank him for supporting their undergraduate and postgraduate studies abroad.
Idris, who accepted the award on behalf of Tinubu, noted that the programme is successfully building a community of intellectuals to lead the region’s future.
According to a statement from the PAP Media Assistant, Igoniko Oduma, there are currently 223 beneficiaries studying in the UK.
Idris told the students that their success is vital for closing the human capital development gap in Nigeria.
He encouraged the scholars to be good ambassadors and to take their academic work seriously.
The PAP Administrator, Dr. Dennis Otuaro, explained that the President has fully supported the programme and its recent reforms.
Dr. Otuaro revealed that 8,205 scholarship beneficiaries have been deployed in the last two years alone. He said the initiative has helped maintain the peace and stability needed for the nation’s oil and gas industry to thrive.
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, also praised Tinubu’s dedication to the Niger Delta and noted that the region has remained safe and stable under the current administration.
Dr. Otuaro thanked the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, for his role in supervising the programme.
He promised to expand vocational training and educational opportunities to help more youths find gainful employment and compete in the global job market.
He said, “We are . . . firmly committed to creating more opportunities for our youths to have greater access to higher education. The overriding objective . . . is to empower our youths with the requisite education and knowledge that will enable them compete favourably with their peers, and explore the job market to be gainfully engaged.”
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