Rivers suspends overseas scholarships for students - vanguard .

Rivers State Government has suspended its overseas scholarships for students of the state origin  in foreign universities, saying it will only pay the tuition fees for those in final year.

Commissioner for Agriculture, Mrs Onimim  Jack, disclosed this to parents of the students, yesterday, in Port Harcourt.  She said the government would see how the students would continue their studies in the state-owned universities, adding that the decision to suspend the scholarship scheme  was due to paucity of funds.

Some of the parents who spoke to newsmen condemned the decision of the government, stressing that the government should have sourced money to sustain the scholarship scheme.

Meantime, Governor Nyesom Wike has said that his administration will not reduce workers’ salary from the N18, 000 minimum wage.

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