Foreign sponsorship: Borno govt to withdraw non-performing medical students

The Borno State Government has warned 10 of the 60 medical students on State sponsorship in Sudan that they risk being withdrawn if they fail to improve on their academic performance.

According to the officials of the two private universities where the girls are studying, 50 of them are about to move to 300 level while the remaining 10 have put in average performance.

Governor Kashim Shettima who is on a four day working tour of Sudan visited the girls to personally assess their performance.

He told the 10 girls with poor academic records that government would discontinue their sponsorship if they failed to perform impressively.

The governor's spokesman, Isa Gusau said in a statement that the 10 have been given a last chance to improve or return home to study less tasking courses in local universities.

“The 10 girls on last chance have been performing low in academics according to their reports personally assessed by Governor Shettima who looked at academic transcripts of each of the sixty girls now approaching part three at National University which has 29 girls and Elrazi University which has 31 girls.

“The governor’s visit to the schools where 60 girls from Borno state study medicine was the first since the programme began in 2014 during his first term in office.

“Shettima was highly impressed with the performance of 50 of the girls particularly three of them, Rebecca Akila Ndahi from Hawul Local Government Area, Aisha Hala from Jere and Fatima Kabiru Kashiku from Shani Local Government Area of Borno, who have the three best academic records out of 29 girls studying medicine at the National University, Khartoum,” the statement said.