The private school owners at primary and secondary school levels in the country have indicated interest to give scholarship to nothing less than 1.2 million children from financially disadvantaged homes and those in the various internally displaced persons’ camps across the country. The school owners under the aegis of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) made this disclosure at an event organised virtually to mark its 2020 Special Day on Monday via Zoom. He said each of NAPPS members who are up to 40,000 nationwide had resolved and determined to give scholarship awards in their various schools to at least 10 indigent children each year and does that consecutively for three years, making a total number of beneficiaries to be around 1.2 million. He said the number would be an addition to other indigent students already enjoying one form of scholarship or the other in their various schools. He asked governors of such states to consider reopening them so as not to further deny their children and their states knowledge-based economic development.

Source: Nigerian Tribune October 12, 2020 15:11 UTC