Poor Girl who lost her Dad at A Young Age gets N15m Scholarship from Kogi Gov

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has approved N15m scholarship award to a 12-year-old table tennis prodigy, identified as Sezuo Ize Azziza.

The beneficiary represented Kogi State at the 2021 Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) National Championship in Lagos.

Confirming the report, Chief Press Secretary to the  Governor, Muhammed Onogwu, noted that the approval which will be released into the beneficiary’s account to cater for her education from secondary school up until university was in fulfilment of the governor’s promise to the fatherless tennis lad.

Azziza, who was born into a less privileged family and lost her father at a very tender age desired to study Medicine and Surgery at the University, a dream the governor referred to that must not be hindered because of her family’s financial status.

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Azziza recently caught the governor’s attention with her brilliant and exceptional performance at a tournament where she represented the state.

The CPS noted that the governor was amazed by the kid’s brilliance when he received Azziza and her family in his office in Lokoja, he said the governor stressed that the lad was not only skilful in her extracurricular activities but a brilliant teenager that must be given all  the necessary support to enable her actualise her dreams.

Reacting to the development, the  Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Wemi Jones praised the governor for promoting girl-child education and other intervention in improving education development in Kogi State.

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CREDIT: ALLSCHOOL, The Nation